I'm a Boomer. That means that when I was growing up, people remembered just who the Nazis actually were. No one called political opponents Nazis. It was obviously ridiculous. There was a tiny American Nazi Party, but it was just a few kooks who were both reviled and ignored.
At some point, the left decided that it would be a good tactic to call opponents Nazis. Many of us remember those Bush/Hitler signs that the Code Pink nuts used to carry during the Iraq war. The tactic got more and more common as fewer people remembered who the actual Nazis were and what they did. Now, not a day goes by without someone on the left calling president Trump a Nazi.
But now we have a reminder of reality. A self-professed Nazi went into a synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered 11 innocent people just because they were Jewish. It's a horror of the sort that a true Nazi would perpetrate.
Hopefully, this event will stop the casual use of charges of Nazism by the left. It is a subject that ought not be trivialized in this way.
At some point, the left decided that it would be a good tactic to call opponents Nazis. Many of us remember those Bush/Hitler signs that the Code Pink nuts used to carry during the Iraq war. The tactic got more and more common as fewer people remembered who the actual Nazis were and what they did. Now, not a day goes by without someone on the left calling president Trump a Nazi.
But now we have a reminder of reality. A self-professed Nazi went into a synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered 11 innocent people just because they were Jewish. It's a horror of the sort that a true Nazi would perpetrate.
Hopefully, this event will stop the casual use of charges of Nazism by the left. It is a subject that ought not be trivialized in this way.
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