Reductio ad Hitlerum: For 60 years, Democrats have been calling the Republican candidate a fascist

This became an integral part of the Democrats’ political playbook and was used almost as much as calling the Republican candidate a racist. But somehow after every warning, the Third Reich has yet to materialize in the United States. This includes the former President Donald Trump He was president from 2017-2021. Despite six decades of warnings from Democrats that the impending fascist apocalypse had not materialized, this has never stopped the left party from taking action. Reducing Hitlerum.

However, the presidential candidate of the constitutional republic, the Vice President Kamala HarrisHe made headlines on Wednesday when he said he believed Trump was a fascist. This tired, old, unfounded trope lacks insight and intelligence. Most importantly, it is dishonorable.

Consider the facts.

Let’s start with former Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) and his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in 1964. 50 years before Trump decided to run for president, celebrities, journalists, politicians and other politicians warned that the GOP chairman was against Trump. The candidate was an extreme fascist who would cause great harm to the country. Goldwater, who served as a pilot during World War II, was compared to Nazis and fascists for promoting conservatism during his presidential campaign.

For example, California’s then-Democratic governor, Edmund Gerland “Pat” Brown, said this about Goldwater’s acceptance speech, claiming it “reeked of fascism.” All we needed to hear was Heil Hitler.” It is worth noting that Goldwater served as a pilot in the army during World War II. Brown had no military service.

Other comments about Goldwater include civil rights leader Dr. There was also Martin Luther King Jr.’s harsh rebuke.

“We see dangerous signs of Hitlerism in the Goldwater campaign,” King said.

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier, said of Goldwater’s speech: “I believe I now know what it feels like to be a Jew in Hitler’s Germany.”

The then-mayor of San Francisco, the city where the 1964 Republican National Convention was held, said the GOP ” My Struggle as their political bible.”

These vile comments continued into the next election in 1968. Hubert Humphrey, then Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate, said the following about the election: “If the British had not fought in 1940, Hitler would have been in London, and the Democrats would have not fought. “Nixon will be in the White House during the fight in 1968.”

Former President Richard Nixon won the election, but the Hitler, Nazi and fascist comparisons never stopped. For example, in 1970 a political poster There was a picture of Adolf Hitler wearing a Nazi armband and holding a Nixon mask.

Meanwhile, A news article from October 1972“Nixon’s Nazis” are mentioned as part of comments critical of Nixon viewable on the CIA’s website. Then there is one Photograph A person wearing a crowned Nixon mask gives a Nazi salute in October 1973.

Gerald Ford followed Nixon as president and a Republican who was called a fascist. In 1974, a member of the American Civil Liberties Union criticized Ford for not taking punitive action against Nixon.

“If (President) Ford’s principle had been the rule at Nuremberg, Nazi leaders would have been released and only those who carried out their plans would have been prosecuted,” the ACLU said. in question In that case.

In addition, Gerald Ford Library MuseumOne document describes Ford’s interaction with a woman in 1975 in which he was harassed and repeatedly called a “fascist” and a “fascist pig.”

Of course, more than a decade of accusations and allegations of fascism never coming to fruition would prevent Democrats from calling Republicans Nazis, fascists, or comparing them to Hitler, right?

Wrong.

Former President Ronald Reagan was the next target of Democrats’ false accusations of fascism.

Representative William Clay (D-MO) stated that Reagan wanted to “replace the Bill of Rights with fascist principles taken verbatim from Mein Kampf.”

Los Angeles Times Cartoonist Paul Conrad drew a panel showing Reagan planning a fascist coup in a dark Munich beer hall. Harry Stein (later conservative convert) wrote inside Esquire He said voters who supported Reagan were comparable to “good Germans” in “Hitler’s Germany.”

American Enterprise Institute scholar Steven Hayward noted another incident in which the intelligentsia and academia also contributed to fascist comparisons of Reagan when Holocaust expert John Roth of Claremont Colleges commented on Reagan’s election:

“I couldn’t help but remember how the economic turmoil of 40 years ago conspired with Nazi nationalism and militarism (all exacerbated by Germany’s defeat in World War I) to plunge the world into disaster. … It is not wrong to look at our post-election situation with fear and trembling.”

Former President George W. Bush may have been the Republican politician who faced the harshest and most vile criticism before Trump. Bush was regularly called every dirty name in the book, from racist to Nazi to fascist to war criminal. There are many examples connecting Bush to Hitler, Nazis and fascists.

In 2012, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), the Romney many Democrats love today, was also linked to Nazis and fascism. A delegate from Kansas said (at the time) that Romney was a perpetual liar and I liken him to Hitler “While criticizing the accuracy of Romney’s campaign speeches.”

A chairman of the California Democratic Party compared then-vice presidential candidate (and eventually former House Speaker) Paul Ryan (also the Ryan many Democrats love today) to Nazi filmmaker and propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

Does any of this sound familiar? It should. This is the same attack that Democrats used against Trump.

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Democrats first warned Trump that he was a fascist in 2015 and 2016. They repeated these attacks throughout the 2020 presidential and re-election campaign and are resurrecting them today. This is an indication of how despicable and divisive Democrats are, while still claiming and portraying themselves as civilized and respectful. This is nonsense.

It is pure, unadulterated, radical, extreme, left-wing propaganda. The only people who believe these Nazi and fascist comparisons are brainwashed and indoctrinated Democratic voters and leftist sycophants. No one should believe any of these attacks. After all, Democrats have a sixty-year history of being proven wrong about comparing Republicans to fascists and Nazis.