LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Look up the word Nazi, Donald Trump doesn’t fit

Editor, In response to your cartoon depicting Mr. Trump as a Nazi, I suggest that you might benefit from looking up the word in a good dictionary, such as Webster’s 2nd Edition, unabridged: “a member of the former National Socialist Workers’ party.” Socialism comes in two flavors; communism where the means of production are owned and operated by the government, and fascism where the means of production are privately owned but everything is controlled by the government.

December 19, 2015 12:00 pm

Editor,

In response to your cartoon depicting Mr. Trump as a Nazi, I suggest that you might benefit from looking up the word in a good dictionary, such as Webster’s 2nd Edition, unabridged: “a member of the former National Socialist Workers’ party.”

Socialism comes in two flavors; communism where the means of production are owned and operated by the government, and fascism where the means of production are privately owned but everything is controlled by the government. Capitalism and fascism are not the same but are opposites. You might be able to accuse Mr. Trump of a lot of faults, but being a socialist is not one of them.

MARTHA RANDALL

Freeland