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It’s an economic message. Let’s not further marginalize poor rural people by making those comparisons.

• bitwize 4y ago
  It's a message straight out of Hitler's playbook: create a cult of personality by radicalizing rural people and the working class and using them to create a voting bloc powerful enough to dismantle the very democracy that gave them that power in the first place. Godwin's law doesn't apply; Godwin himself said that comparing people to Nazis was appropriate when those people are actually behaving like Nazis. If you do not look at Trump and his memetic strategy and see the rise of fascism in the USA, you have not been paying attention.
  • coldtea 4y ago
    >Godwin's law doesn't apply; Godwin himself said that comparing people to Nazis was appropriate when those people are actually behaving like Nazis. Of course that's also what everybody making a bad comparison would say. "I'm my case it's justified". In fact, if Hitler was re-incarnated in the 21st century, something he would have added "my opponent is literary Hitler" to his playbook - dehumanizing the other side. But of course those who do that only do it becaue they're "justified" in doing it.