Godwin says OK to Compare Trump to Hitler

[Axtremus]

Op-ed by Mike Godwin:
Yes, it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don’t let me stop you.

https://wapo.st/3tgkjBa

Yes, that Godwin.

[George K]

@Axtremus said in Godwin says OK to Compare Trump to Hitler:

https://wapo.st/3tgkjBa

Oh, FFS:

For many weeks now, Trump has been road-testing his use of the word “vermin” to describe those who oppose him and to characterize undocumented immigrants as “poisoning the blood of our country.” Even for an amateur historian like me, the parallels to Hitler’s rhetoric seem inescapable.

Apparently, Mr. Godwin has not read the newspaper in which he writes his op-ed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-vermin-in-the-white-house/2019/07/29/81daff28-b161-11e9-8f6c-7828e68cb15f_story.html

[Horace]

He's the Robert DeNiro of boomer internet memes.

[Renauda]

I would advise Trump to refrain from words and expressions attributable to infamous tyrants sucha as vermin” and “poisoning the blood of our country”.

Instead he should use more down home words like “f’erin or flea bitten varmints” and more folksy expressions like “skunking our yard” or “souring our milk”.

[jon-nyc]

Jon-NYCs law: As an online meta-discussion grows longer, the probability that Godwin makes a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.