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Conservatives Have Set the Bar at ‘Not As Bad As Hitler’

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60% Informative

Julian Zelizer : Conservatives spent the weekend complaining that Democrats were comparing Donald Trump's rally to Nazi sympathizers.

He says there are important differences between right-wing authoritarian movements and fascist movements bent on genocidal conquest.

But this distinction in degree between different kinds of threats to democracy is not the point Trump 's defenders wish to emphasize, Zelizer says.

Lowry does not dwell on the different kinds of racism employed by Hitler and Trump .

Trump 's, while considerably less virulent, nonetheless involves dehumanizing large swaths of the public.

Trump has supplied overwhelming evidence of his racist and authoritarian tendencies, he writes.

Lowry: If the Democratic candidate was a murderous authoritarian, the election would pose a difficult choice.

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60

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55

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34

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informal

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English

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54

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offensive

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possibly hateful

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short-lived

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