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Hitler

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Jon D. Schaff   |  July 16, 2024

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.

“God Made a Dictator”

John Fea   |  January 16, 2024

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

John Fea   |  December 21, 2023

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

John Fea   |  July 25, 2023

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”

John Fea   |  October 31, 2022

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

John Fea   |  June 3, 2022

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 […]