Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Says He’ll Help Kill Trump If He Turns Out to Be Hitler

The plan involves, um, armed rebellion.
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During this election cycle, one of Donald Trump's most vocal supporters has been Dilbert creator Scott Adams. The cartoonist has justified his support for Trump with such reasoning as "To my untrained eyes and ears, Hillary Clinton doesn’t look sufficiently healthy—mentally or otherwise—to be leading the country." Or this...uh...interesting take on Trump:

Trump always takes the extreme position on matters of safety and security for the country, even if those positions are unconstitutional, impractical, evil, or something that the military would refuse to do. Normal people see this as a dangerous situation. Trained persuaders like me see this as something called pacing and leading. Trump “paces” the public—meaning he matches them in their emotional state, and then some. He does that with his extreme responses on immigration, fighting ISIS, stop-and-frisk, etc. Once Trump has established himself as the biggest bad-ass on the topic, he is free to “lead,” which we see him do by softening his deportation stand, limiting his stop-and-frisk comment to Chicago, reversing his first answer on penalties for abortion, and so on. If you are not trained in persuasion, Trump look [sic] scary. If you understand pacing and leading, you might see him as the safest candidate who has ever gotten this close to the presidency. That’s how I see him.

Now Adams is doubling down on his Trump support with a blog post called "The Crook Versus the Monster," in which he claims that the reason Clinton is winning is because she and her team have successfully spun facts to make Donald Trump look like a monster. He goes so far as to characterize some of Trump's worst moments like this:

There was the time Trump said we need good border control with Mexico, and Clinton turned that into something racist because of the way he worded it.

There was the time Trump said we need to try harder to keep out terrorists who want to kill us, and Clinton turned that into something racist because of the way he worded it.

There was the time that Trump said a judge with Mexican heritage might be biased against him because 90% of American citizens with Mexican heritage are biased against him. Clinton turned that into something racist because of the way Trump worded it.

THOSE THINGS WEREN'T "TURNED INTO SOMETHING RACIST." THEY WERE RACIST. And "the way he worded it" made them racist statements. Here's how Trump explained the need for the wall:

"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

It wasn't spun into sounding racist. That is saying that the majority of immigrants coming from Mexico are criminals and rapists, which is just a racist thing to claim. Those are statements that didn't need to be "turned into" monstrous things. They just were monstrous. I'm speechless in the face of such intellectual dishonesty.

But Scott Adams believes the idea that Trump is dangerous is overblown. I'd point out that's an easy thing for a white man to say as Trump's dangerous language is mostly targeted at people of color and women, but I don't want to dwell on this because the real gem is still to come. Highlight ours:

To me, those illusions about Trump are ridiculous on face value. I can’t change anyone’s mind if they see Trump as a monster. So instead I will make you a promise.

My promise: If Trump gets elected, and he does anything that looks even slightly Hitler-ish in office, I will join the resistance movement and help kill him. That’s an easy promise to make, and I hope my fellow citizens would use their Second Amendment rights to rise up and help me kill any Hitler-type person who rose to the top job in this country, no matter who it is.

If a politician walks like a fascist, talks like a fascist, and appeals to fascists, the solution is to not elect that person. It's not to tell people that you think he's not really a fascist and even if he is, it's not a big deal because if he turns out to be one, you'll help kill him. The lengths that some people will go to justify not voting for Hillary Clinton—a candidate with her own problems, certainly, but at least the potential to become Hitler isn't one of them—are astounding.