April 23, 2025

The Poseurs Who Think They’re the Heroes Opposing Today’s Hitler

Many leftists scold each other for “humanizing” Trump, when apparently the proper thing to do is perennially dehumanize him.

Is there any political schtick more tedious now than comparing President Donald Trump to Hitler? Politico posted an article noting Al Gore did this at a Climate Week event in San Francisco, and RealClearPolitics co-founder Tom Bevan tweeted with a smirk, “Gore says the same thing Democrats have been saying for a decade.”

The Democrats campaigned heavily in 2024 claiming Trump represented an end to democracy, and they lost the election. But it hasn’t slowed them down in the slightest.

The “independent fact-checkers” who act as a publicity arm of the Democrats never “fact-check” anyone calling Trump a “fascist” or comparing him to Hitler or Mussolini or Pol Pot or “insert mass-murdering dictator here.” PolitiFact screeches “Pants on Fire” when a Republican calls a Democrat a “socialist,” but “fascist” is always fair for categorizing conservatives.

Bill Maher’s recent dinner with Trump spurred angst-riddled articles on the Left. In The Washington Post, Mexican journalist Leon Krauze compared Maher’s dinner with Trump to journalists and politicians who were charmed in private meetings by Castro, Stalin and Mao. He wrote of New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews being in thrall to Castro.

So it was extra-special when The New York Times published an op-ed by Larry David, who loves making a friendly impression of socialist Bernie Sanders on “Saturday Night Live.” The title was “My Dinner with Adolf,” making an incredibly unfunny mockery of Maher meeting with Trump.

In his satire, this poseur imagined he saw Hitler laugh: “Suddenly he seemed so human. Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning.”

Oh, Larry is dizzy, all right. Face-plant dizzy.

What was actually funny was Times deputy opinion editor Patrick Healy explaining why they accepted this drivel: “Times Opinion has a high bar for satire — our mission is geared toward idea-driven, fact-based arguments — and we have a really, really high bar for commenting on today’s world by invoking Hitler.”

So a president who’s been a great friend of Israel and who’s currently withholding federal money for universities with a nasty antisemitism problem is somehow today’s Hitler?

Healy acknowledged “callbacks to history can be offensive, imprecise or in terrible taste when you are leveraging genocidal dictators to make a point.” But he claimed “Larry’s piece is not equating Trump with Hitler. It is about seeing people for who they really are and not losing sight of that.”

Fact check: False. Larry is clearly and imprecisely equating Trump with Hitler, just like almost everyone else on the Left.

In a 2020 interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Larry sang the same bitter notes about Trump: “The man has not one redeeming quality. You could take some of the worst dictators in history and I’m sure that all of them, you could find one decent quality. Stalin could have had one decent quality, we don’t know!”

Many leftists scold each other for “humanizing” Trump, when apparently the proper thing to do is perennially dehumanize him. They can’t “normalize” Trump by admitting he might have one redeeming quality. They have more hope that mass-murdering Stalin was more redeemable. Then they assert they are the sanest ones, the ones not divorced from reality.

COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM

Who We Are

The Patriot Post is a highly acclaimed weekday digest of news analysis, policy and opinion written from the heartland — as opposed to the MSM’s ubiquitous Beltway echo chambers — for grassroots leaders nationwide. More

What We Offer

On the Web

We provide solid conservative perspective on the most important issues, including analysis, opinion columns, headline summaries, memes, cartoons and much more.

Via Email

Choose our full-length Digest or our quick-reading Snapshot for a summary of important news. We also offer Cartoons & Memes on Monday and Alexander’s column on Wednesday.

Our Mission

The Patriot Post is steadfast in our mission to extend the endowment of Liberty to the next generation by advocating for individual rights and responsibilities, supporting the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and promoting free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. We are a rock-solid conservative touchstone for the expanding ranks of grassroots Americans Patriots from all walks of life. Our mission and operation budgets are not financed by any political or special interest groups, and to protect our editorial integrity, we accept no advertising. We are sustained solely by you. Please support The Patriot Fund today!


The Patriot Post and Patriot Foundation Trust, in keeping with our Military Mission of Service to our uniformed service members and veterans, are proud to support and promote the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, both the Honoring the Sacrifice and Warrior Freedom Service Dogs aiding wounded veterans, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, the National Veterans Entrepreneurship Program, the Folds of Honor outreach, and Officer Christian Fellowship, the Air University Foundation, and Naval War College Foundation, and the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. "Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13)

★ PUBLIUS ★

“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!” —George Washington

Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic's Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.

The Patriot Post is protected speech, as enumerated in the First Amendment and enforced by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, in accordance with the endowed and unalienable Rights of All Mankind.

Copyright © 2025 The Patriot Post. All Rights Reserved.

The Patriot Post does not support Internet Explorer. We recommend installing the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome.