Finally, somebody says it: References to Weimar and Nazi Germany are usually intended to warn...consider the German left-wing activists who turned up at a conference of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on Saturday, adding a swastika made out of vegan mince to the breakfast buffet. Such words and gestures are intended to send a clear moral message: This policy or party is reminiscent of the Nazis, and therefore you mustn’t support it. The problem is that the message doesn’t work. Trump-Hitler comparisons were already popular before 2016 and didn’t deter American voters from making him president twice. (Before Trump, left-wing critics likened President George W. Bush to Hitler; Bush served two terms.) In Germany, the AfD is now the most popular party, according to all major surveys. Nowhere in the West does the Nazi label kill a political career. A Nazi tattoo did not make Graham Platner a Democratic Party pariah. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/09/trump-hitler-weimar-comparisons-are-bad-political-ploys/