Historian Cormac Moore is a columnist with The Irish News and editor of On This Day. As with Hitler in 1920s Germany, many considered Trump’s foray into a politics a joke when he descended his golden escalator in 2015. He was not taken seriously by opponents in the Republican Party and elsewhere until it was too late. There was only one federal election in Germany while Hitler was in power, in March 1933. But these are just temporary roadblocks as Trump and his administration continue a destructive path that bears too many similarities to Nazi Germany to keep on ignoring.