We need to teach young people about our history and institutions. Put me down as in favor. But we also need to teach about character.
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“God Made a Dictator”
Some of you are familiar with the “God Made Donald Trump” video circulating in the MAGA world. If you haven’t seen it, watch it here. The Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans, has responded with “God Made a Dictator”: […]
Mike Godwin gives us permission to compare Trump to Hitler
The originator of “Godwin’s Law” weighs in! Here is Mike Godwin’s piece at The Washington Post: My very minor status as an authority on Adolf Hitler comparisons stems from having coined “Godwin’s Law” about three decades ago. I originally framed this “law” […]
A historian of fascism is ready to use the term to describe Trumpism
Up until this point,Christopher Browning, a historian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, has not used the word “fascism” to describe Donald Trump and the movement he leads. But it looks like he has changed his mind. Browning is […]
Eric Metaxas believes Rick Warren, Tim Keller, and Andy Stanley are “Hitler’s favorite kind of pastors”
Eric Metaxas is hawking a book that condemns evangelicals for failing to stand-up to Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. He compares Biden and the Democrats to Adolph Hitler and the Nazis in the 1930s and is using his widely […]
Mastriano compares gun control to Nazism
He is a “historian with a doctor in history.” No historian worth his salt would make such a sloppy and manipulative comparison. Watch: Mastriano’s claim here has been widely debunked and/or problematized. Also here. Also here. Get up to speed […]