About halfway through Michael Moore’s new film Fahrenheit 11/9, footage begins of a speech by Hitler to a packed Nazi convention hall. But the voice we hear is Donald Trump’s and the noise that accompanies the stiff-arm salutes is the baying crowd at a Trump rally.
I heard gasps among the London audience at this: some of recognition, some of shock at the audacity of the parallel. But Moore is unrepentant: “I was not saying that Trump was Hitler but maybe that Hitler was Trump. Liberals are often too afraid to say what’s really going on and are always wanting to look reasonable,” he tells me, when we meet over breakfast in London. “Being reasonable right now is not gonna win this fight.”
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