To make such comparisons is, at best, naïve, and, at worst, a gross display of extraordinary historical ignorance.
“Anybody who compares Trump or anybody else to Hitler essentially is a Holocaust denier,” said Alan Dershowitz, another Harvard Law Professor. “To compare the American political system to anything that happened in the Holocaust is just outrageous.”
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It is part of a much larger and ongoing narrative.
"Remember when Hank Williams Jr. was fired from his Monday Night Football gig when he compared then President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler? This led Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood to sing “You can’t compare the president to Hitler!” in their opening to the 2011 Country Music Awards.
"Apparently, Brad and Carrie were wrong.
"As you have no doubt heard by now, earlier this past week, CNN’s pompous news anchor Don Lemon compared President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. To be fair to Lemon, he acknowledged this to be an “extreme example,” but this did not prevent him from making the extreme comparison anyway, suggesting that media should not give a platform to Trump — “a bad person doing bad things” — the way they supposedly gave it to Hitler.
"Fellow CNN host Chris Cuomo rightly pointed out to Lemon that to make such a comparison is absurd: “You are now taking a guy who says things you don’t like and comparing him to a genocidal maniac.”
"Unmoved — and apparently unnoticed by those viewers who were still processing the Hitler remark — Lemon, seeking to clarify, then went on to imply that Trump voters were like the people who drank the Kool-Aid at the Peoples Temple in Guyana. As clarifications go, this one was not helpful.
"Lemon is not the first to make the Trump — Hitler comparison. On the contrary, it seems part of a larger strategy. To wit:" . . .
Perhaps most worrisome in all of this is what everyone appears to have missed in Lemon’s remarks, and that is why he referenced Hitler in the first place: Lemon was essentially advocating the suppression of free speech, the denial of “space” as he put it, to “bad people who do bad things.” Implicit in his commentary is the notion that media — that is, guys like Don Lemon — will determine for the rest of us what constitutes “bad.” Given the direction that Big Tech is headed on censorship, this should be of concern to all Americans, be they Left, Right, or Center.