How many times have you heard right wingers compare Clinton-Gore-Hillary-Obama-liberals-Democrats to fascists-Hitler-Nazis etc.(in case you missed it try this) I had always assumed that this was meant to be an insult. But..but..apparently not. Here is Eliana Johnson of the National Review Online
"Nazism may have been an ideology to which the United States was — and to which the president is — implacably opposed, but it is hardly “senseless.” By the early 1930s, the Nazi party had hundreds of thousands of devoted members and repeatedly attracted a third of the votes in German elections; its political leaders campaigned on a platform comprising 25 non-senseless points, including the “unification of all Germans,” a demand for “land and territory for the sustenance of our people,” and an assertion that “no Jew can be a member of the race.” Suffice it to say, many sensible Germans were persuaded. "
If the National Review had any standards whatsoever Ms. Johnson would be looking for a new job.
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