Reductio ad Hitlerum: 60 Years of Democrat Rhetoric

To update a famous quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin: In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes — and Democrats labeling the Republican presidential candidate a fascist for the last 60 years.

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It’s been an integral part of the Democratic political playbook, utilized almost as much as calling the Republican nominee a racist. Yet, somehow, after each warning, the Third Reich has yet to materialize in the United States. This includes when former President Donald Trump was president from 2017-2021. Despite six decades’ worth of Democratic warnings of impending fascist doom failing to come true, it has never prevented the left-wing party from engaging in Reductio ad Hitlerum

Ed Morrissey

They have escalated the messaging lately, but Democrats have spent all year trying to make this stick. It hasn't worked, and it has arguably backfired. At some point, demagoguery corrodes the standing of demagogues.  

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