Nazi analogies are dangerous. But they are increasingly relevant today.

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The film strikes disturbingly close to home: the use of street thugs, the false claims of victimhood by a group persecuting others, the abhorrence of democracy, the repression of media in favor of state propaganda...

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Opinion | Nazi analogies are dangerous. But they are increasingly relevant today.
Ken Burns’s Holocaust film revives the quandary about Nazi analogies.
10:52 AM · Sep 19, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/19/ken-burns-holocaust-nazi-analogies-trump/

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For a long time, politicians, media and Jewish organizations agreed it was virtually never appropriate to analogize modern political movements to Nazis or compare today’s human rights atrocities to the Holocaust. If every right-wing politician was dubbed a Nazi and every inhumane policy decision was compared to the Holocaust, the memory of the historical crimes against the Jewish people would be cheapened.
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Then came the rise of Donald Trump, replete with racist rhetoric, demonization of immigrants, overt antisemitism, grand conspiracy theories, frightful mass rallies and incitement to violence for political purposes.

The Jewish Democratic Council of America briefly touched on the issue in 2020 when it ran an ad making a clear comparison between the MAGA movement and Nazism:

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported at the time, “In swift and strong rebukes, the anti-Semitism watchdogs condemned the ad as offensive. One came from the Anti-Defamation League, which has been anything but shy in calling out a range of Trump’s statements and actions.”

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[Kaleva]

1. If the analogy is accurate, TFG will soon murder the Maga leaders

Like Hitler okayed the liquidation of the Brownshirts leadership and the movement was neutralized.

[Bev54]

2. Except it is not the repression of the media in the US, it is the voluntary

actions of the oligarchs of the media to present propaganda and false equivalencies between the Nazi's and those who want to save democracy.