The author is not breaking Godwin’s law because he is not making an analogy. You may disagree with his conclusions, but the author spends a lot of time talking about history with many links that would take a long time for people to sort through, read, and think about (and chew some cud). By the way, hippies certainly loved the VW van in their day, didn’t they?
The only thing I have expressed a disagreement about on this thread is the statement from the poster that said that Leni Riefenstahl had no influence on Titanic because of the reason that Titanic was nothing like Triumph of the Will.
That is apples and oranges. As I pointed out, it was Riefenstahl's bergfilmes that were compared to Titanic.
As far as Hitler is concerned, I pointed out that it is impossible for an imperfect human to be 100% evil, 100% of the time, even if he specifically tried to accomplish such a task. Eventually, the imperfect human makes a mistake, as all humans do, and produces something good. Godwin’s Law is funny but it has no bearing to the real world.