Is Trump Hitler, or just… Woodrow Wilson?
Comparing Trump to Hitler and Mussolini obscures the basis of his mass appeal, prevents us from confronting the neoliberal center, and demonizes a large segment of the population that we’d like to win over. There are better analogies out there, and ones
On the night of the election, after it became clear that Donald Trump had beaten Kamala Harris, neoconservative pundit David Frum took to Twitter to announce his intentions. A longstanding “Never Trumper,” Frum said he would “walk to the bar, strike up the band, and sing ‘The Marseillaise’.”
Some commentators many thousands of miles to Frum’s left seem t…
