Acceptable for Politico's “Ideas” section: Comparisons of Obama to Hitler and Mussolini

On October 7, The Politico published an “Ideas” piece by Rep. John Linder (R-GA) that compared President Obama's administration to “Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy.” From Linder's Politico piece:

Progressivism and its progeny all believed in the fairness and wisdom of decisions made by the state - often at the expense of the individual, who, it was believed, made selfish decisions. All demanded that the state have an increased role in raising children. Adolf Hitler scoffed at those who remained opposed to him, saying he already had control of their children.

All believed in the minimum wage, state control of private property for the public good, unionization and environmentalism. And they believed in eugenics to purify the gene pool.

It is now fair to wonder whether we are returning to a belief that only a powerful central government can fix all of our problems. Victor Davis Hanson wrote in the National Review that President Barack Obama is governing as though the United States were a university and he its president. Governing by czars fits that example. A diversity czar, environment czar, pay czar, science czar, manufacturing czar and, of course, health czar could deal with the “whole” of an issue rather than looking at it piece by piece. This is not unlike the women's studies, black studies, diversity studies, environmental studies and other obsequious studies in most academic settings.

And with the Obama administration, just as in Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy and Wilson's America, the leaders of major corporations are falling in line. Whether it is climate change, executive pay, automobile manufacturing or bank buying, CEOs step right up and wait for the tax benefits to surely follow their pandering. And the CEOs stood mute while bondholders saw their investments given to the unions.

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The principal sin in politics is overreaching. Americans have in the past repeatedly voted for freedom and the supremacy of the individual over the state. It will happen again.

Previously:

Limbaugh yells “Nazi” (and the press yawns)

Breitbart's Big Hollywood: Same old birtherism, comparisons of Obama to Hitler

Savage's take on Obama's speech to students: “Hitler had the Hitler Youth, and Obama would like to have the Obama Youth”

Conservative media ignore their own long history of invoking Nazis to smear progressives