"...The thing my father and I have often discussed, through the years, is the eye-rolling art of comparing American presidents to Hitler.
It is such an absurdity we find it amusing …and frustrating.
It’s often just a punch line.
Like the Soup Nazi wasn’t really a Nazi.
The Nazi part made it funny. You know …over-the-top. Like “grammar Nazi” or “spelling Nazi.” Nobody is really a “Nazi.”
It’s our representation of something we consider jarring, strident, intractable and inhumane.
But the truth about Nazis isn’t funny at all.
It’s bloody and horrible and gut churning.
And it involves machine guns and butchery and inhumanity on a scale that takes your breath away.
...The idea of comparing an American president to Hitler is just as absurd …from any angle, in any context.
The American system ITSELF pretty much prevents “Hitlers” from showing up.
And America ITSELF is anathema to what Hitler was trying to create..."
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