Well, Hirohito is from a tradition of leadership where he's supposed to say nothing. Hitler is from a tradition where he's supposed to be a genius from which al

Well, Hirohito is from a tradition of leadership where he's supposed to say nothing. Hitler is from a tradition where he's supposed to be a genius from which all policy flows. This obviously makes it a much more contentious assertion in Hitler's case, and it's compounded by the post-war political conveniences about who was and was not responsible on the German side. The analogy in my head is Trump- Trump had a lot of opinions, strongly-held opinions, even, and he would broadcast them at every opportunity. However, at its base, there wasn't a coherent world-view there. He didn't really have a grand political project that his positions stemmed from. Most of what Trump did was simply to try and please his audience, whoever that was. That's unlike, say, Nixon, or Carter, Wilson, or Obama.