Hitler was worse than is Trump, but Trump came closer to killing American democracy. And he comes still.

Barbarossa was Adolph Hitler's fatal miscalculation. But as Zhukov was turning the Russian war against Germany, Japan struck at Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt immediately declared war--on Japan alone, not on Germany and Italy. And Hitler hesitated. Dec. 9th passed, then the 10th. Finally megalomania got the best of him--he would not be beaten to the first punch--and on the 11th he declared war on the U.S. in the Reichstag. Shirer puts it succinctly:

Adolph Hitler, who a bare six months before had faced only a beleaguered Britain in a war which seemed to him as good as won, now, by deliberate choice, had arrayed against him the three greatest industrial powers in the world...--The Rise and Fall (900).

If there be merit in consistency at least the Russian dream had been in Hitler’s mind since Mein Kampf. America, never. Germany never posed a direct threat to the United States. She could not possibly have won a war against the U.S. in the 1940's, war technology at the time did not make it conceivable. He couldn't even invade Great Britain! How was he going to invade America? What was he thinking? He had all of Europe up to the steppes "a bare six months before." He could have gone on playing whack-a-mole on Britain until she was bombed back into the Stone Age.

Since 1945 you have been able to play atomic whack-a-mole on another country. You can obliterate that country. But to occupy and to hold that country you still have to invade. America can only be occupied and held by an insider. That was, may still be, Trump.