The irony of the TEA Party likening Obama to Hitler;
Because when I think of Hitler, I don't think of Ultra-nationalism or scapegoating minorities or propaganda or a leader who demands the right to imprison and torture anyone who he sees as a threat to national security or creating special classes of people so as to strip them of both constitutional and international human rights or invading foreign nations on false pretenses or using existing Christian prejudices to consolidate power and stir up hate against false enemies or doubling down on failed economic and foreign policies or worshiping violence, guns and raw power or prison camps, secret and not so secret where people are held without right of Habeas corpus, tortured and killed
not any of that! I, like everyone, remember Hitler for how he dictatorially forced the the powerless masses to buy Affordable Health Insurance!!
On a more serious note, too many of us liberals have fallen for their trap and taken comparisons to the Nazis off the table as part of political discourse. Lessons that should be learned from this dark time in world history shouldn't be off the table. Rational Germans initially dismissed the Nazis in much the same way we are tempted to see the TEA party, as a fringe group of loonies unlikely to rise to power. Never have I felt so afraid of living in a nation that was turning into Nazi Germany than when G.W. Bush was president.