Leftist Rhetoric Deconstructed

Victor Davis Hanson's latest Private Papers column takes the Left to task for its frequent invocation of Hitler/Bush analogies, highlighting the bigotry of a movement that hollers, "My feelings have been hurt!" with every First Amendment lawsuit they file, then turns around and says the most derogatory things about those who disagree with them.

Here's an enticing excerpt, but be sure to read the whole thing:

In fact, what do Linda Ronstadt, Harold Pinter, Scott Ritter, Ted Rall, and George Soros all have in common? The same thing that unites Fidel Castro, the European street, the Iranians, and North Koreans: an evocation of some aspects of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany to deprecate President Bush in connection with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

At first glance, all this wild rhetoric is preposterous. Hitler hijacked an elected government and turned it into a fascist tyranny. He destroyed European democracy. His minions persecuted Christians, gassed over six million Jews, and created an entire fascistic creed predicated on anti-Semitism and the myth of a superior Aryan race.

Whatever one thinks of Bush’s Iraqi campaign, the president obtained congressional approval to invade and pledged $87 billion to rebuild the country. He freely weathered mass street demonstrations and a hostile global media, successfully defended his Afghan and Iraq reconstructions through a grueling campaign and three presidential debates, and won a national plebiscite on his tenure.

h/t Real Clear Politics



See? They're really out there. This was a protest today (Saturday), with a hat tip to IDF Israel.