Leftists Hitler and Jihadists

[level_head]

I have written before about the left-right spectrum of politics in the US, and the fact that Hitler, by this measure, was very much on the American left. He was defended by the American left, in fact, until falling out with the Soviet Union.

On the right are those favoring a limited government, contained and constrained by the US Constitution. On

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[torakiyoshi]

What it comes down to, is that the left is invoking Godwin's Law. It's unfortunate that the right fails to point out that, by doing so, they automatically lose the debate.

[level_head]

I don't think that any reference to "Godwin's Law" (Rich Godwin is a friend of mine) actually settles any debate.

And the connections of jihadism and Nazis - these movements essentially overlapped in the 1930s and 1940s - means that the left has to be a little bit uncomfortable here. They are supporting the only effective surviving Nazi movement, and they would be happy with this except for the fact that, at the moment, this can be used as an insult. But they really hate the Nazi movement about as much as they really hate incivility in political discourse, it seems to me.

===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle