Don Feder complains in a Sept. 30 WorldNetDaily column:
Louisiana Gov. Huey Long, Democrat and Depression-era populist, predicted in 1935, “When fascism comes to America, it will come under the guise of anti-fascism.” This prophecy is coming true before our eyes.
This year, Democrats are calling everyone who disagrees with them a Nazi or a fascist while facilitating evil.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz charges that President Trump is “a fascist to his core.” Former Vice President Kamala Harris agrees. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the silver-tongued Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who calls Mr. Trump a “Temu Hitler,” are among the Democrats who have twisted reality to reach the preposterous conclusion that the twice-elected president of the United States is Der Fuhrer.
Not just Mr. Trump but also his supporters are smeared in this ugly fashion.
President Biden warned that “MAGA Republicans” are “a threat to democracy,” during a 2022 Independence Hall extravaganza eerily reminiscent of the 1930s Nuremberg rallies, with its lurid lighting.
Funny, we don’t recall Feder complaining about how his publisher, WND, repeatedly likened President Obama to Hitler and other assorted Nazis. And in August 2023 alone, for example, editor Joseph Farah declared of President Biden, “There’s a Nazi living in the White House” and Bob Unruh touted a biased poll claiming that “a majority of Iowa Republicans, based on the Biden administration’s multiple legal attacks on President Donald Trump, believe Biden is turning America into a version of ‘Nazi Germany.'” And Feder’s likening of a Biden speech to a Nuremberg rally shows that he loves to liken Democrats to Nazis.
Feder went on to complain:
As a clone of Adolf Hitler, Mr. Trump fails miserably. The president never tried to sabotage the democratic process, unlike Democrats, who worked to keep his name off the ballot in several states in 2024 and used lawfare to keep him off the campaign trail. Mr. Trump doesn’t ignore the courts, unlike his predecessor, who proceeded with student loan forgiveness after the Supreme Court told him it was unconstitutional.
In fact, Trump’s incitement of the Capitol riot demonstrated beyond a doubt that he very much tried to sabotage the democratic process, and he has routinely ignored court rulings, demonstrating that he does indeed “ignore the courts.”
Still, Feder tried to justify his flawed comparison:
The left is following a script that was written in the 1930s, when communists started calling their opponents fascists and presenting themselves as the only alternative to fascism.
In reality, the two ideologies are first cousins. Both reject capitalism for a planned economy. (Not for nothing were the Nazis called the National Socialists.) Each believed the interests of the individual must be subordinated to the collective.
In fact, the Nazis were not socialists, and all the name-calling from right-wingers like Feder does not change that.
Feder concluded: “If they had any decency, Democrats would stop the insane name-calling. Loose accusations of fascism are getting people killed.” You first, dude … or are you totally cool with liberals getting killed?