The reich stuff – what does Trump really have in common with Hitler?

Comparisons between the ex-president and the 20th-century Nazi leader are controversial but a new book says they resemble each other as political performance artists

When Donald Trump shared a video that dreamed of a unified reich" if he wins the US presidential election, and took nearly a full day to remove it, the most shocking thing was how unshocking it was.

Trump has reportedly said before that Adolf Hitler did some good things", echoed the Nazi dictator by calling his political opponents vermin" and saying immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country", and responded to a white supremacist march in Charlottesville by claiming that there were very fine people on both sides".