It really isn’t very clever to compare President Trump to Adolf Hitler (or, for that matter, other 1930s-era fascists). Even measured by each leader’s worst elements, where Trump is a mild cold, Hitler was the Ebola virus.

Still, it takes a truly special intellect to make Hitler the beneficiary of the comparison, and that’s exactly what Dr. Bandy Lee did on Monday. The Yale University psychiatrist is best known for repeatedly violating her profession’s ethical norms by diagnosing Trump at a distance as mentally ill. But in a now-deleted tweet helpfully saved for posterity by my colleague, Siraj Hashmi, the good doctor offered the following gem of historical insight.