First Things RSS Feed - John-Clark Levin https://www.firstthings.com/author/john-clark-levin en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:56:21 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/john-clark-levin 60 Nazi Analogies Have Their Place https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/03/nazi-analogies-have-their-place https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/03/nazi-analogies-have-their-place Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:01:00 -0500 It’s a familiar script in American politics now. Every few months some politico runs his mouth off, comparing the policies of the other party to those of Nazi Germany. Then pundits take to the airwaves to criticize the exploitation of such painful memories to score cheap political points. The guilty party usually doubles down, insisting that the comparison was taken the wrong way”that he was merely warning of a slippery slope down to Nazism. Finally, the Anti-Defamation League steps in and denounces such glib analogies with the unchallengeable moral credibility of actual Holocaust survivors.

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