Cover of a 1939 issue of the Australian magazine, The Insider.
No, Trump isn’t Hitler, but . . .
Until recently an accepted rule of political debate was that the first person to mention Hitler automatically lost the argument. Hitler was regarded as such a special case that nobody alive could be mentioned in the same breath. Among the many special achievements of Donald Trump may be the redundancy of this long-standing rule. Donald Trump isn't Adolf Hitler, though I suspect in some ways he might like to be. Many people these days are making the Trump-Hitler comparison, but it doesn't stand up to close examination. Sure, Trump's a populist, but his appeal isn't anywhere…
