Yes, between 1933 and 1939, Adolf Hitler presided over massive increases in German/Reich gross domestic products and reductions in unemployment, until my grandfather helped blow it all up a few years later. But those successes say nothing good about Hitler: they were never about making lives better, but always about empowering Nazi ideology.

I note this in light of Turning Point USA communications director Candace Owens’ comments in London on Friday. Specifically, Owens’ bizarre and ignorant statement about Hitler’s “globalism”: “[I]f Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine. The problem is that he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German, everybody to look a different way.”