Liberal New York Times columnist Frank Bruni said liberals and Democrats are losing the political fight against President Trump by “overreaching,” which includes comparing the president to Adolf Hitler.
Bruni wrote in a column published Wednesday night that Democratic voters hoping the party takes Congress in the midterms should dial down their “schoolyard” rhetoric.
“Enough with Hitler, too,” he said. “Has Trump shown fascistic tendencies? Yes. Is he the second coming of the Third Reich? No. Nor are the spineless Republicans who have enabled him Nazi collaborators, not on the evidence of what has and hasn’t happened so far.”
Many in the media and some Democrats in Congress have likened Trump’s rise to Nazi Germany.
In March 2016, the Washington Post editorial board told readers, “You don’t have to go back to history’s most famous example, Adolf Hitler to understand that authoritarian rulers can achieve power through the ballot box.”
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., in January this year said, “Having studied history and having taught history, I can only equate one period of time with what we are experiencing now and that was what was going on in Germany around 1934 right after the 1932 elections when Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor.”
