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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 warned that Bush subscribed to the “supremacist ideology of Nazi Germany.”
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Mike says
hope those who read this see a pattern here
The left paints everyone on the right as Hitler
When this story makes comments about the Bush family
please go do a deep dive into the Bush family
gravenimage says
George Bush did not ascribe to the Third Reich, Try again.
somehistory says
History….in the corrupted playbook…is repeating. Like the old joke about Pete and Repeat sitting on a log.
If hitler had never been, to whom would they liken their enemies?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I know that constitutionally in this country, it would be a non-starter, but I’d love for Trump – or anyone else dubbed a “Hitler” by the Left – to crack down on those critics, really torment them in prison camps & torture them short of death, as a salutary lesson on what a Nazi regime really was like! Maybe that’ll teach them to reserve such terms for real fascist regimes like the ones in Beijing or Tehran
40 rounds says
It’s funny how Hitler lives in the minds of leftist -communists rent free yet don’t realize their beliefs and actions are very hitlerian
Joyce says
Right. Not only Hitler, but NAZIs. I wonder if the left realizes that NAZI stands for – National Socialist German Workers Party. Shouldn’t AOC, the other squad members, and the socialists on the left be thought of as NAZIs?
OLD GUY says
I was not surprised by this attempt at killing President Trump. Taking Trump out is probably the only chance the Democrats have on keeping the power in Washington D.C.
Sometimes it doesn’t take much to send one of these nut cases over the edge, and the left media knows that vary well. A sad day for America and a tragic loss for the families that had violence and death thrust upon them.
jus wundrin says
Accuse others of what you’re guilty of.
gravenimage says
76 Years of the Left’s Hitlers: From the Little Man on the Wedding Cake to Donald Trump
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Yes–all of this makes President Trump fair game for anything, including murder. Just appalling.