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On Saturday evening, we saw where the left’s overheated rhetoric leads.
Leftists have called Trump a traitor, an insurrectionist, a dictator, and much more. Above all, they have repeatedly likened him to the man whose name has become synonymous with evil, Adolf Hitler. Is it any wonder, in light of the way the left has portrayed Trump since 2015, that someone tried to kill him?
Trump, however, is by no means the left’s first Hitler, and likely won’t be the last. You probably remember “Bushitler,” but this reprehensible and incendiary tactic goes back for earlier than Bush 43. The left has been using it for decades, and despite the assassination attempt, Donald Trump isn’t even likely to be the left’s last Hitler.
Leftist propaganda outlets have resorted to this tactic unashamedly. The June 2024 issue of the New Republic features a Photoshop blend of Trump and Hitler. On Dec. 20, 2023, the Washington Post published an op-ed by none other than Mike Godwin, the originator of “Godwin’s Law.” This “law” has been characterized as the idea that in any argument where someone characterizes his opponent as Hitler, the one who makes the comparison loses, for a person would have to be monstrously evil to warrant comparison to the mass murder of millions. Yet Godwin’s op-ed is entitled “Yes, it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don’t let me stop you.”
In fact, Godwin has grandiosely given us permission to liken Trump to Hitler many times over the years. Hey, thanks, Mike, but it doesn’t look as if anyone was waiting around for your blessing to smear Republicans in this way. In Sept. 2012, The Hill reported that a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Kansas “invoked Hitler while criticizing the accuracy of Romney campaign talking points. ‘It’s like Hitler said: If you’re going to tell a lie, tell a big lie, and if you tell it often enough and say it in a loud enough voice, some people are going to believe you.’”
In Aug. 2008, Madonna, who would go on to fantasize publicly about blowing up the Trump White House, released a video in which she juxtaposed photos of John McCain and Hitler, inviting the viewer to regard the Republican candidate as just like the Führer.
Comparisons of George W. Bush to Hitler were common. Unfunny leftist comedian Janeane Garofalo called the Bush administration the “43rd Reich.” Actor David Clennon said: “I’m not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler—because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler. And secondly George Bush has much more power than Adolf Hitler ever had.” Yeah, right. None other than George Soros warnedthat Bush subscribed to the “supremacist ideology of Nazi Germany.”
Before Bush, the Republicans fielded two presidential candidates, George H. W. Bush and Bob Dole, who actually fought the Nazis. Tough to call them Hitler. Ronald Reagan, however, was a serious Hitler; a Democrat congressman, William Clay of Missouri, claimed that the Gipper was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.” Nixon, of course, got it, too: in Aug. 1972, Democrat candidate George McGovern said that the Watergate break-in was “the kind of thing you expect under a person like Hitler.”
An even earlier Hitler was the Republicans’ 1964 candidate, conservative trailblazer Barry Goldwater. When he visited a U.S. base in Germany, a CBS Evening News correspondent said: “It is now clear that Sen. Goldwater’s interview with Der Spiegel, with its hard line appealing to right-wing elements in Germany, was only the start of a move to link up with his opposite numbers in Germany.”
The left’s first Hitler, however, was one of history’s most famous losers, the little man on the wedding cake, the man who all the polls predicted would be elected president in 1948 but whose moving plans were upended as incumbent President Harry Truman won a stunning and totally unexpected victory: Thomas E. Dewey. The potted history of the 1948 election is that Truman won by being honest and down-to-earth, dealing with the real concerns of Americans while the haughty Dewey confined himself to lofty generalities. Old Give-‘Em-Hell-Harry gets kind treatment from historians; they’ve forgotten, or don’t want us to remember, how ugly Truman’s campaign really was.
On Oct. 26, 1948, exactly one week before election day, the New York Times ran a front-page, above-the-fold article entitled “PRESIDENT LIKENS DEWEY TO HITLER AS FASCISTS’ TOOL.” It began: “A Republican victory on election day will bring a Fascistic threat to American freedom that is even more dangerous than the perils from communism and extreme right ‘crackpots,’ President Truman asserted here tonight.”
Sound familiar? It should: the Democrat playbook hasn’t changed for 76 years. The Times continued: “Already the ‘gate’ has been opened ‘just a little bit’ by the Eightieth Congress to admit this totalitarian specter to the shrines of democracy, the Chief Executive told his audience in Chicago Stadium.” Nowadays he would have said “our democracy.”
These were the Democrats’ glory days, and they’ve been trying to relive them ever since. Old Joe Biden, however, is a tatterdemalion Harry Truman, and he may not emulate his great comeback. But for incendiary gutter rhetoric, he is a worthy son and heir of the Man From Independence.
Democrats all remind me of Charles Manson.
That was uncalled for, as my fourth grade teacher would habe said. TACKY, MR. GOLDSTEIN. VERY TACKY.
Funny…. the teacher I had who used the word “tacky” was my high school art teacher.
She also used “funky” and “earthy” …..but she wasn’t homosexual, so she didn’t use “matchy-matchy”. ~
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When I was in fourth grade, “funky” wasn’t common yet.
When I was in fourth grade, Wilson Pickett popularized it with his cross-over hit “Funky Broadway”.
Trump refuses to abide by their rules and their Global Plans that’s why they oppose him
that s why he will be president and not the mafioso democrats
They never liken their enemies to Stalin who killed more of his own people than any fascist did.
I wonder why.
When the lefties compare somebody to Hitler, may his name be erased, I figure he’s doing something rigjt.
Speaking of “tacky” …
That is Holocaust minimization — Holocaust denial’s close cousin.
The word “tacky” was around before Hitler, may his name be erased, was born.
I cannot erase his name.
However, I, being a male, can write his name in the snow in disappearing…..ink. ~
Because they actually are acolytes of communism & think Stalin was an OK guy.
They just tire of having to endlessly make excuses for it’s failure. (As you pointed out, they just ignore the 100 million and counting)
Conservatives hate all forms of socialism, and hence hate both Stalin and Hitler.
(The DNC & the National Socialist’s Worker’s Party were smitten with each other before 1939. Eugenics was big in democrat circles via Margaret Sanger.)
Will Rogers, like a lot of people, thought Mussolini, may his name be erasef, was the greatest thing since salt on pretzels. I did some research on Mussolini for a short story I wrote, last yeat
Yes, yes, Yeats was also drawn to Mussolini … ~ 🥴
Then again, Yeats used typos creatively, like you. …
He was a real Gonne cat and a self-Maud man. ~ 😃
That last paragraph was very funny
Mussolini could have dropped his imperial ambitions and refused an alliance with Hitler (whom he despised) and gone the way of Franco neutrality and saved his country from the devastation of WWII.
Mao wins the historical prize for democide and Xi is following in his blood-soaked footsteps.
Democide is genocide when it’s your own genus
The merry-go-round never changes course. Even the curtain behind which it revolves stays the same. Change requires independent thought and that is not an option to the left.
The sad thing is that probably 95% of the lefties today have never heard of any of the names you mentioned. That is why the simple left never has to admit failure.
Thomas E. Dewey was more than “the liitle man on the weddimg cake.” He was the crusading district attorney who convicted Lucky Luciamo, the real-life inspiration for the Humphrey Bogart charecter in MARKED WOMAN.
Of course the fact that leftist are calling for Hitlerian Genocide with their castrati shrieks of “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” and “Resistance by any means” goes unexamined.
I wonder ig thr people calling thay, IN SPAIN, kmow that Spain is also om the Arab’svhit list?
Is that “the Arab’s hit list”, or “the Arab shit list” ? ~
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Hit list. My mistake
The Arabs consider Spain Al Andalus and an integral part of Dar Al Islam, to be reconquered and reabsorbed. The Spanish hate Jews so much they’re blind to the Muslims would will eventually outnumber them in their own country (helped by the fact that Spain’s fertility rate is barely more than HALF of replacement levels.
Spain did take in Jewish refigees, during during the Holocaust
Where are all of the Jewish leaders and organizations protesting the despicable comparison of Trump to Hitler?
AWOL…
It is the Israeli opinion polls that reveal how REAL Jews feel about it.
Also, Israelis include Arab Muslims, who prefer Biden, so the polling is rather profound …
https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-finds-44-of-israelis-prefer-trump-over-biden-as-next-us-president/
The marxists-communists have always called their enemies Hitler, but not a word about their hero, Josef Stalin.
I once saw a picture of Stalin, may his name be erased, next to a picture of the Libavicher Rebbe, in a Russian shoemaker’s shop in Jerusalem.
That is seriously appalling.
It is a common attribute of leftists, and their anarchist fellow travelers to call their political opponents (Republicans, Conservatives, & Christians) fascists, racists, Homophobes, and other disgusting names. What Republicans, Conservatives, & Christians fail to do in retribution to these name callers is state a fact. That the left is commonly guilty of the exact sins they accuse their political opponents of: Democrats owned all US slaves and institutionalized the Jim Crow laws to oppress Blacks. The hero of leftists, feminists & Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger, birth control & eugenics activist, said all sorts of disturbing things, like, “We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.” She favored the forced sterilization of those she deemed “unfit,” she gave a speech to the Ku Klux Klan, and she once wrote, “The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it” (mind you, like Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, she was talking about a child who had already been born). The Democrat party owns the racism, fascism, & communism issues in America.
Clarification: Mrs. Sanger did not give that speech to the Klan itself. She’d spoken to a women’s auxiliary of a local Klan chapter in New Jersey in 1922. And the speech had NOTHING to do with race. It was about the need for birth control for married women. She gave that same stump speech thousands of times during her career to many types of audiences. Associating with a group isn’t the same thing as endorsing it. I’ve given speeches to people I don’t agree with either. Mrs. Sanger, by the way, was pro-civil rights as a matter of principle. She disliked the Klan, but felt that even women in that part of the world had a right to learn about birth control via the rhythm method.
Thank you. That was a great clarification of a widely-held misconception (OOPS🙂.)
Good one! ~
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Brevity is the soul of shit. ~
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The photo above makes it appear as though Tom Dewey, a skilled prosecutor who would have made a fine president, was the accuser, when in fact he was the target of the accuser. Harry Truman’s “give ’em hell” whistle-stop comeback in that 1948 campaign may give root-for-the- underdog populists everywhere goosebumps, but in retrospect Dewey appears as the better candidate.
Do gooder Dewey. Question your grasp of history. Leaned towards statist.
Had Dewey been elected, John Foster Dulles would have been the Secretary of State. Israel’s independence would not have been recognized. The Dulles brothers had done business with Nazi Germany. They remained anti-Semites for business reasons, unlike those emotionally anti-Semitic, such as the Bechtels.
ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE DID BUSINESS WITH HITLER, MAY HE ROT IN HELL.
Let’s see ….
I just checked my history book on the American Revolution …
Did General George Washington, John Adams, Sam Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison …..
after the Boston Tea Party, the Boston Massacre, Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill and Brooklyn Heights ….
were they all calling on the American Patriots to please tone it down, calm it down, and maintain the Unity with the British Empire ?
Oh Oh … I don’t think so.
ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE DID BUSINESS WITH HITLER, MAY HE ROT IN HELL.