Posted on 12/14/2003 11:03:42 AM PST by quidnunc
The hard left decided long ago that President Bush is Hitler. In maddened corners of the Internet and at swastika-choked anti-war marches, Bush is shown with a Nazi uniform or a Hitler mustache.
But does everyone on the far left believe this?
Not at all. Some think that Vice President Cheney is the real Hitler. He commands America's "storm-trooper legions," said former right-wing crackpot and current left-wing crackpot Lyndon LaRouche. Others think Donald Rumsfeld is Hitler (both men favored mountaintop retreats, the Action Coalition of Taos points out).
Many on the left believe that either former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer or Bush adviser Karl Rove is Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Or maybe Pentagon adviser Richard Perle is related to Goebbels. The September issue of Vanity Fair suggested that Perle could be Goebbels' twin with side-by-side photos headlined "Separated at birth?"
Another vexing question about Rove: Is he Goebbels or Josef Mengele? Goebbels is the top choice among anti-war commentators, but a writer to the MetaFilter site said: "Karl Rove made up stories about John McCain, just as Josef Mengele conducted medical experiments on children in Auschwitz."
The common charge that Bush is Benito Mussolini is controversial many leftists insist that the Mussolini role is reserved for Tony Blair, the junior partner of Bush's Hitler.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is a challenge to lefty analysts, some of whom think his intellectual background is fascist (Jeffrey Steinberg in Executive Intelligence Review), while others believe he has Bolshevik roots (he is Leon Trotsky's ghost, according to Canadian journalist Jeet Heer).
Anyone who calls the Bush people fascists will get no argument from Princeton Prof. Sheldon Wolin, who says, "We are facing forms of domination that exceed the old vocabulary." So if you feel like calling somebody a fascist, go right ahead.
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I thought you had to look through the onion.
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