It wouldn’t be an election year if Democrats weren’t frantically gesticulating at their Republican opponents and screaming “OMG, OMG, literally Hitler!” The Democrats have taken over Godwin’s law and abused it until it was in ruins, and yet they compare former President Donald Trump to the infamous leader of Nazi Germany. In the case of the Harris presidential campaign, this appears to be 1) their final move and 2) the only thing they have left to bring to the table; everything else blew up in their faces.
It’s all very tiring.
What’s worse, it turns out it’s been standard issue for Democrats since shortly after ancient Adolf met his well-deserved end. In a Washington Examiner editorial on Thursday, Christopher Tremoglie described how this has been happening for 60 years – and he has examples.
Let’s start with former Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) and his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in 1964. More than 50 years before Trump decided to run for president, celebrities, journalists, politicians and other politicians warned that the GOP would become president. The candidate was an extreme fascist who would do significant damage to the country. Goldwater, who served as a pilot in World War II, was compared to Nazis and fascists for promoting conservatism during his presidential campaign.
For example, then-Democratic Governor of California Edmund Gerland “Pat” Brown noted Goldwater’s acceptance speech and claimed it “had the stench of fascism. “We just needed to hear Heil Hitler.”
Barry Goldwater – and honestly, couldn’t we utilize a few more Barry Goldwaters today? Barry Goldwater was a true war hero who piloted a cargo plane in Asia over “The hump,“An extremely risky route through which supplies were flown from India to China, passing through mountains and deep gorges in Burma and western China.
It doesn’t stop with Senator Goldwater, Tremoglie wrote:
The despicable comments continued in the following election in 1968. Then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Democratic presidential candidate remarked about the election: “If the British hadn’t fought in 1940, Hitler would have been in London, and if the Democrats didn’t.” After the fight in 1968, Nixon will be in the White House .”
Former President Richard Nixon won the election, but the comparisons between Hitler, Nazis and fascists never stopped. For example, in 1970, a political poster featured a picture of Adolf Hitler wearing a Nazi armband and holding a Nixon mask.
Nixon had his problems, but being a fascist wasn’t one of them.
Not even Ronald Reagan was immune:
Rep. William Clay (D-MO) stated that Reagan wanted to “replace the Bill of Rights with fascist principles taken verbatim from Mein Kampf.”
The Los Angeles Times Cartoonist Paul Conrad drew a panel of Reagan plotting a fascist coup in a darkened Munich beer hall. Harry Stein (later a conservative convert) wrote In esquire that the voters who supported Reagan were comparable to the “good Germans” in “Hitler’s Germany.”
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what goes around comes around. (The more things change, the more they stay the same.)
The problem, of course, is that most Democrats (and many other people) utilize the epithets “fascist” and “Nazi” in the same way they do “racist,” “sexist,” “homophobe,” or “transphobe,” as well Synonym for “Doody Head”.
They don’t know what fascism is. Fascism is a governmental and economic system with central authority where the means of production are located technically speaking in private property, but the production of the means of production is dictated by this central government.
Of course, Democrats rarely concern themselves with facts.
This endless shouting of “Nazi! Nazi!” probably won’t end any time soon. Republicans could propose a ham sandwich, and Democrats would scream about the sandwich’s fascist bias, especially if the sandwich is made of white bread. And the comparison is absurd at first glance. No American politician advocates rounding up innocent civilians and murdering them literally by the truckload. No American politician advocates invading Canada to give American citizens “breathing room.” No American politician plans to carry out airstrikes on Cuba day and night. No American politician can reasonably be compared to Hitler and his evil minions, but that doesn’t stop Democrats from making this completely absurd claim.
At least the raucous cries of “Nazi!” tells us who to ignore by invoking Hitler and identifying themselves as people who don’t need to be taken seriously.
