I once heard a comic say, “Hitler – a man widely known for liking large dogs and small children – wasn’t really evil.  He just had a bad day.  Sure, it lasted twelve years and caused twenty million deaths, but it was basically just a bad day.” Which is, of course, pure crap, and even if it was funny (I didn’t laugh), everybody knew Adolf Hitler was a monster with a Charlie Chaplin moustache. 

    Unfortunately, today, the Dem Progressives (pronounced “Damn Progressives,” but you already knew that), with nothing both real and bad to say about President Trump, have just decided to call him 'Hitler.' Are they idiots? 

    Frankly, I think so.  Here’s why:

    Even prominent Jews in America – like Larry David, who did a great deal to mainstream Jewish culture with shows about non-religious Jews ('Seinfeld' and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm') has stooped to accusing Jewish comedian Bill Maher of having dinner with 'Hitler,' after Maher journeyed to Mar-a-Lago for a dinner with the president. 

    Responding to David during an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Maher said, “First of all, it’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews.  It’s an argument you kind of lost just to start it. Look, maybe it’s not completely logically fair, but Hitler has really kind of got to stay in his own place.  He’s the GOAT of evil.”

    On his own program, Real Time, Maher later doubled down.  “The minute you play the ‘Hitler’ card, you’ve lost the argument.”  ‘Hitler,’ and ‘Nazi,’ he told his HBO audience, are hard words to use with nuance.

And rightly so.

    Hitler, Stalin and Mao – the three most murderous tyrants in all human history – were steeped in evil, as their body counts show.  Between them, they killed more than a hundred million people – mostly their own citizens.  There is no dictator living today with the potential to become a Hitler, though North Korea’s Kim Jong Un seems to want to try.  However, North Korea doesn’t have enough atom bombs to reach that total, even if Kim targeted nearby China’s largest population centers.  

    Which brings us back to those Dem Progressives who every day try to tar Trump with the Hitler brush – but not with his brush moustache.  Compared to Hitler, anybody who did nothing worse than deport a hundred fifty thousand violent illegals would be a saint by comparison with the monster who was Hitler.

    When called out on this, the Dem Progressives say it’s an analogy, or a metaphor – they can’t ever be sure which is which. 

If so, it’s a lousy analogy.  Or metaphor.  Trump hasn’t killed anybody.  His idea of a concentration camp is Gitmo, which both Democrat and Republican presidents have used since the aftermath of 9/11.  Then there’s El Salvador’s terrorist prison.  Despite several months of intense media scrutiny, nobody’s reporting on any systemic executions.  

    The press has regular access to those camps, finding no evidence of executions, starvation, or torture that were a daily event at Hitler’s death camps between 1939 and 1945.  

    Hitler’s camps kept the gas chambers burning day and night right until the Allied armies of liberation – the Soviets to the East and the Americans, Brits and French to the west – rolled up to their gates and freed the camps. 

    The Allies – even the Soviets – then began truly heroic efforts to save the emaciated human skeletons who had not yet succumb to starvation or disease.  

    Nobody at Gitmo has missed many meals, and at El Salvador's CECOT prison, the prisoners look fit and well-fed.

    Trump has done nothing to match Hitler’s attempted extermination of the untermenschen (sub-humans) within his grasp: Jews, Gypsies (Roma), Slavs (Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Poles, Czechs and Serbs) and other non-Aryans. 

    Also among Hitler’s targeted untermenschen were the physically and mentally disabled – killing off even afflicted Aryan Germans – as well as homosexuals – people you’d think the Dem Progressives among us would want to really castigate Hitler for.