Frank Navarro, who teaches at Mountain View High School in California’s Silicon Valley, said he cited some of Trump’s controversial and racially charged statements, such as calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” and criminals and making comments about the Mexican heritage of a judge presiding over a lawsuit against Trump University, to make the case that there are some parallels with Hitler’s persecution of Jews and the Nazi leader’s rise to power.
Both had promised to make their countries “great again,” Navarro said.
He also cited Trump’s previous statements about weakening libels laws to draw comparisons with how the Nazis established control and influence over the independent press.
“It’s an effective way of embedding the lessons that I’m teaching regarding the place of government and the lives of people,” Navarro, who teaches special education, civics and world studies, told The Washington Post. “It’s important to relate history to your lives because, in the end, that’s what it’s going to be about.”
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