MSNBC host Joy Reid compares Trump to Hitler during rant on 'how fascism takes root'

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Far-left MSNBC host Joy Reid likened Donald Trump to Hitler on Wednesday and said the former president was "also viewed as a clown, a goon who could be kept in line."

Reid opened her show by discussing "fascism and how it takes root." Reid said fascism does not take root through a dramatic coup, but "more often a deal, a bargain between the would-be dictator and the establishment, both political and media," who believe power would tame the dictator.

"Like Trump, Hitler was also viewed as a clown, a goon who could be kept in line. And then there are the accommodations that the media makes with autocracy," Reid said, noting a New York Times article on Hitler from 1922, which said, "Hitler’s antisemitism was not so violent or genuine as it sounded."

Reid compared Hilter's failed coup that had "set the stage" for Nazi Germany, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on Capitol Hill.

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"And when he [Hitler] was freed from prison, just over a year after the failed putsch, the Times offered this unfortunate and incorrect assessment, that Hitler had been tamed by prison. The next year, Mein Kampf was published. So much of this sounds familiar. And believe me, I wish it didn’t. The establishment thinks that they can be controlled and poof, they’re stuck with them," she