A former State Department official, who went on to be president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, stated in an interview that he sees no value in wasting time trying to dissuade Donald Trump from his worst instincts.
According to Gregory H. Stanton, a former research professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention at George Mason University, one need only look at Germany in 1939 to understand what is happening during Donald Trump's second stint in the Oval Office.
In an interview Stanton, who drafted the U.N. Security Council resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, pointed out that "diplomacy with Trump is worse than a lost cause" wrote Salon's Charles S. Davis.
According to Stanton, Trump is "no ordinary adversary,” adding, "[Trump] “stands far outside the bounds of diplomacy and the rule of law between civilized nations.”
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“He is a Nazi,” he continued before noting, “Negotiating with Nazis didn’t prove useful in 1939. It won’t now either.”
That led Salon's Davis to contribute, "It is not easy to accept that 'it' is actually happening here — that the descent into right-wing authoritarianism could be so rapid, the institutions of democracy so weak, the orchestrator of it all such an obvious and venal perversion of the American ideal — and harder still to quit one’s economic dependence on a superpower, however much it may be imploding. But, a decade from now, it might also be hard to believe that countries didn’t pursue their own rational self-interest and isolate a man who befriended their enemies, threatened their homes and sent their citizens to Guantánamo Bay."
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