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We have entered the election year for the US presidency and in the coming months we will have to swallow a ration until we are wrong. Something profitable necessarily appears.

Nikki Haley’s “coola” opinion of the Civil War of 1861-1865 draws the attention of some. But there have been far more people who have been upset by what Trump says about immigrants. Damn migrations are poisoning American blood. As the ex/tema is so, moreover, instead of going back or standing like Haley, he goes out to repeat what he said without shame. Because what he thinks is that, of course. And if I knew the opponents, let's not say.

In fact, liberal environments begin to ignite Trump’s words with Hitler’s views and deeds and Nazism in a fire. So much so that Trump has also wanted to make readers of something like Mein Kampf. Rejecting what your most persevering biographers assume you've never read a book or what's written by it.

But the knot is complicated when it is proven, and not difficult, that these expressions that Trump uses on migrants have always been at hand in the United States… and have materialized in his historic immigration legislation.

It is striking that when the phrase “immigrants poison the country’s blood” is on the table, no one mentions the language and implementation of Madison Grant’s political initiatives and their environment. Did Hitler call his work “my bible”?

Well M. In the work of Jonathan Spiro, who will be the only biography of Grant, but in network and free, one can read, among many others:

"Kenneth Roberts wrote in the Saturday Evening Post that immigration was like a 'venom dedicated to the veins of America', and George Creel told Collier's readers that, as a result of indefinite immigration, 'our national wells have been poisoned and will remain poisoned to defend common sense if the sentiment is not abandoned.'

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"The dirtiest immigrants were Jews, who, faced with natives who love cleanliness and nature, seemed to have a curious tendency to accumulate in the stench of big cities. Charles E. Woodruff, a book doctor who read and admired Madison Grant, warned that the Jews were 'pernicious parasites' and 'bacilli'. Their immigration was like an "infectious disease" that invaded the country and pursued them was to initiate a "necessary disinfection process". Prescott F. Hall told Granti that the Jews were similar to 'sprouts of infectious diseases' and that they should be treated as 'weeds' or 'insect pests'. Grant agreed that Jewish immigrants threatened to poison the blood of ancient Americans, and Kenneth Roberts wrote that the 'true human parasites' were Jews.

They're accounts from a hundred years ago, 1922. Hitler was a demobilized cape and Mein Kampf, the intention not yet.