Enough with Hitler: Lazy Analogies and the Left’s War on Truth
- WireNews
- May 11
- 2 min read
by Ram ben Ze’ev
There’s a pattern as old as the modern Left: when reason fails, when debate falters, when truth becomes inconvenient—they reach for the Hitler card.
Most recently, it was historian Timothy W. Ryback drawing a parallel between Adolf Hitler’s autarkic economic policies and President Trump’s efforts to restore American industry and independence. With a stroke of intellectual dishonesty, Ryback suggests that Trump’s tariffs—aimed at revitalising domestic manufacturing and reducing foreign dependency—mirror Hitler’s campaign to "liberate" Germany from globalisation. This is not scholarship. It’s propaganda.
To equate Trump’s America First economic policies with the totalitarian machine that destroyed Europe, murdered six million Jews, and plunged the world into war, is not just absurd—it’s grotesque. But it’s also predictable. The Left can’t seem to argue on substance, so they smear. And their smear of choice is always the same: “Trump is Hitler.”
Let’s be clear: the political Right, the Conservative movement, and millions of Americans abhor everything Hitler stood for. His regime was the epitome of evil—state control, race-based laws, censorship, confiscation, euthanasia, war, and genocide. There is no admiration on the Right for Hitler. None.
But the Left keeps invoking him, not because the comparison holds merit, but because it is emotionally charged and rhetorically final. Once Hitler is mentioned, the conversation ends. That’s the point. It’s a lazy shortcut to moral high ground without having to climb there.
The irony is rich: many of the tools used by Hitler’s regime—propaganda, book burning, the suppression of opposing views, control of the media, persecution of dissenters—are alive today not on the Right, but on the modern Left. Cancel culture, de-platforming, speech policing, and mob-led public shaming would make Goebbels blush.
Trump’s economic policies aimed to decentralise power, not concentrate it. He reduced federal regulations, empowered individual states, and stood up to globalist frameworks that disadvantaged American workers. He didn’t seek to isolate America—he sought to strengthen it so that it could lead with confidence.
There is a stark difference between strategic economic nationalism and totalitarian economic isolation. One is a policy debate; the other is a crime against humanity. Conflating the two is either intellectually dishonest or historically illiterate.
When the Left says “Hitler,” what they really mean is “I don’t like this.” But disagreement isn’t fascism. Tariffs aren’t tyranny. Wanting secure borders isn’t Nazism. And preferring American-made goods isn’t genocide.
It’s time for the Democrats and their academic mouthpieces to find a new metaphor. Better yet, perhaps they could engage in honest debate, where facts and logic matter more than fearmongering and fiction. Until then, we must call out this misuse of history for what it is: cowardice masquerading as commentary.
The Right doesn't need lectures about Hitler from the side of the aisle that excuses modern antisemitism, coddles dictators, and cloaks itself in moral superiority while dismantling the foundations of liberty.
Enough with Hitler. Try something original.
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Bill White (Ram ben Ze'ev) is CEO of WireNews Limited, Mayside Partners Limited, MEADHANAN Agency, Kestrel Assets Limited, SpudsToGo Limited and Executive Director of Hebrew Synagogue
