I already miss the old days, when “Hitler” just meant “Trump.”

Before that, “Hitler” had just meant the Republican candidate, whoever it was. It had been so ever since 1964, when Barry Goldwater, an NAACP member who had desegregated his family business, declined to vote for the civil rights bill of l964 because of a fine point — a small clause in the public accommodation part of the original version, which President John F. Kennedy had initially omitted as too problematic.