This content was created by Dennis Prager. This content was uploaded by Dennis Prager. This is a YouTube video titled "Democrats Have Long History Of Using 'Hitler' Smears Against GOP" (created 2024-10-28). The excerpt is a single-speaker political commentary/monologue (speaker labeled SPEAKER A) in English that argues Democrats and left-leaning figures have repeatedly compared conservative opponents to Hitler or fascists. The speaker cites many historical examples and quotes (Hubert Humphrey, Chicago Mayor Daley, Pat Brown, Jack Shelley, George Meany, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Rangel, Dick Durbin) and criticizes what they describe as a pattern of smear tactics and media influence; the tone is opinionated and polemical.
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Front Page Mag, David Horowitz's website. If the British had not fought in 1940, Hitler would have been in London. And if Democrats do not fight in 1968, Nixon will be in the White House, Vice President Hubert Humphrey warned. Get it? If the Democrats are to Nixon what the Allies were to Hitler. That's Hubert Humphrey, known as a gentleman, and I mean it. Chicago Mayor Daley accused Nixon of Hitler-type tactics. Governor Pat Brown of California said Barry Goldwater's acceptance speech had the stench of fascism. All we need to hear was Heil Hitler. I didn't know all these early Hitler references, I have to say. Mayor Jack Shelley of San Francisco claimed that Goldwater strategists got all their ideas from Mein Kampf, Hitler's autobiography. Union leaders launched a national campaign to denounce Goldwater as Hitler II, or Hitler Two. I have drawn a parallel between Goldwater and Hitler, and I make no apology for drawing that parallel, George Meany of the AFL-CIO declared. The famous novelist Kurt Vonnegut said, "The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected." Well, actually, the bigger difference is that Bush was elected. Congressman Charles Rangel compared the Iraq War to the Holocaust. This is just as bad as the 6 million Jews being killed. And he claimed that the contract with America was worse than Hitler. Senator Dick Durbin compared Gitmo to Nazi concentration camps. So it isn't, as I say, it isn't new. It started actually, the author didn't note this, I have noted this regularly, it started with Stalin when Stalin called Trotsky a fascist. Trotsky founded the Communist Party of the Soviet Union along with Hitler, with Hitler. Well, it's a perfectly understandable mistake, along with Lenin. And then Trotsky came to oppose Stalin, so he was called a fascist, and of course he was killed by orders of Stalin, killed in Mexico City, as it happens. An ice pick. If you oppose the left, you are by definition a fascist. And people buy it. When you own the media, it's easy to persuade people of just about anything.
