What Hitler and Breivik have in common

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Think of Anders Behring Breivik, the man who bombed a government building in Norway before proceeding to coldbloodedly massacre scores of defenseless young people on a secluded island several miles away, as an Adolf Hitler of one. The first Adolf Hitler was a Hitler to millions. He captured an entire nation and terrified the world for years. One imagines that the two, if ever they could have a quiet talk together, would have much to agree on.

Both were meticulous planners, though I dare say Breivik was Hitler’s superior. He would not delay an invasion of Russia. Both harbored grudges against threats to their culture from the foreign-born and what Breivik called the “cultural Marxists.”

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