Leftists have called President 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.
This from frontpagemag.com.
And, now, is it any wonder, in light of the way the left has portrayed Donald J. Trump since 2015, that the death threats have manifested into real death and injury. But first we had an unexplained shooter on a roof, security snipers seemingly unable to establish line-of-sight, rally attendees on the ground calling attention to the danger, and a significant percentage of the security personnel seemingly not doing what protocol states should have been done: take out the threat before he kills?
Trump, however, is by no means the left’s first Hitler, and likely will not be the last. The Leftist propaganda outlets have unashamedly resorted to the tactic of using the Hitler name for decades to denigrate their opponents. Remember “Bushitler”? And the reprehensible, incendiary tactic goes back far earlier than Bush 43.
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:
[I]nvoked 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,’ and
– None other than George Soros warned that 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 presented by the Left as a serious Hitler:
[Communist/Globalist] 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, The Left’s candidate George McGovern said:
[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 communist/globalist 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 Left’s 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.
Final thought: Whether America or the democrat party (communist/globalist crime syndicate) will die first is truly uncertain, however, my money is on Trump and the MAGA Party out living the dems, the c/g crime syndicate, and the uniparty.
