Commentary
The questions continue to arise. What’s the future of the Democrat Party? What is their message? Who is leading the party? Crickets.
What we’re hearing today is the same as in 2024 – anti-Trump attacks. Donald Trump swept to victory despite the name-calling and inferences and those unsuccessful attempts to see him jailed. Yet, they continue to criticize Trump.
He’s called a dictator, fascist and worse yet, Hitler. The problem is that only Democrats believe it. An April 28, 2025, release of Rasmussen Reports revealed that nearly three quarters of Democrats believe Trump has become a “fascist” dictator. Do they really, or are they simply listening to leftists in the media?
Like Chris Mathews, who recently compared Trump’s deportation of the MS13 gang member Abrego Garcia to doing the same thing Hitler did during the Holocaust, sending people to other countries.
Who would have thought it would be liberal comedian/commentator Bill Maher who would be the one to criticize those who label Trump in this manner. Trump invited Maher to dinner, after which Maher said Trump was gracious and measured.
Addressing the name-calling issue, Maher said, “to use the Hitler thing, first of all, I just think it’s kind of insulting to six million Jews, you know. Like that should kind of be in its own place in history. I think the minute you play the Hitler card; you’ve lost the argument. You know, come on man. Hitler? Nazis?
Former vice president Al Gore stepped out and braved climate change last week to compare the Trump administration to Adolph Hitler’s Nazi Party during a speech in San Francisco
He likened the administration’s approach to truth to that of Nazi Germany, cautioning against efforts to manipulate reality for political gain.
Democrats are making the same mistakes they made during Trump’s first term, when the headline, “The Strategic Blunder of Trump-as-Hitler,” over Alan Richarz’s opinion piece appeared in The Hill on June 24, 2018.
“Overwrought comparisons to the Nazis are both historically illiterate and an extreme strategic misstep. The president’s critics have crossed a rhetorical line from which there can be no turning back,” he wrote.
Ironically, Dominick Mastrangelo penned a similar piece for The Hill on April 26, 2025, entitled “Trump-Hitler Comparisons Risk Boomeranging on Democrats,” in which he quoted Gore admitting, “I understand very well why it is wrong to compare Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich to any other movement.”
“It was uniquely evil, full stop. I get it,” Mastrangelo quoted Gore. But it didn’t stop Gore from expanding on it in his speech.
During Trump’s first term, I recall Georgia Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson, who, I am sure, riled against anyone using the “N” word, warned against the rise of authoritarianism as he compared Trump to Hitler.
“Americans elected an authoritarian, anti-immigrant, racist strongman to the nation’s highest office,” he added, warning black Americans to be wary of Trump.
Someone who should know better, James Carville, who continues to call himself a Democrat strategist, questioned whether Americans should wait until Trump becomes Hitler before taking action against his administration.
“Do we wait until he’s Hitler?” he asks. “Nip it. Nip it in the bud,” he said, quoting TV’s one bullet sheriff, Barney Fife. “That’s what I say, nip it in the bud. Don’t wait,” he continued without stating how.
Will Democrats and the media ever learn?
New York Times’ deputy opinion editor, Patrick Healey, commenting on Larry David’s controversial essay, a fictional piece written from the perspective of a person who had dinner with Adolph Hitler in 1939, wrote, “callbacks to history can be offensive, imprecise or in terrible taste when you are leveraging genocidal dictators to make a point.”
Good point, but they published David’s piece that coincidentally followed Maher’s dinner with Trump, with Healey saying, “Larry’s piece is not equating Trump with Hitler.” What were readers to think?
The ridiculous comparison must stop.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
