Although experts agree that the current Literally Hitler frenzy is about getting progressives to the polls, our Democratic friends have been playing the Hitler card in every presidential election since 1948, when the headline at the New York Times screamed:
PRESIDENT LIKENS DEWEY TO HITLER AS FASCISTS' TOOL
That was a speech President Truman delivered in Chicago on October 25, 1948. I guess it must have been a close race. Fast forward 76 years and the Democratic Party is reprising the same line, in another close race for the presidency.
Obviously, the Nazi card makes sense because, back in the Age of Mass Media, we were all taught that Adolf Hitler was the worst thing since John Milton dispatched Satan in Paradise Lost:
Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky,
With hideous ruin and combustion, down
To bottomless perdition;
Hitler = Satan. Get it? Mind you, back in 1933 all the best people were either socialists or fascists. The FDR National Recovery Act copied the corporatising model of Italian Fascism.
But that was then; this is now, peasant.
Of course, it’s odd that our liberal friends -- who don’t believe in God and the Devil, nor in........