If Naziism survived, maybe whoever came after Hitler would have been more moderate and we could just write off the evils of the Hitler era as being the personal

If Naziism survived, maybe whoever came after Hitler would have been more moderate and we could just write off the evils of the Hitler era as being the personal excesses of an especially brutal man, just like we do with Stalin. No, I don’t buy it. Communism always starts with mass murder and ends in economic stagnation. China seemed to turn it around but then they started back up with the genocide again. > That's usually petty whataboutism as a proxy for identity politics anyway. If people “identify” as communist, Nazi, or ISIS, I would prefer to exclude them from politics entirely (by custom, not by force at least to start) without getting sucked into the academic exercise of stack-ranking exactly which of these is worst.