The Hitler analogy has become a symbol of political ignorance

Man, the brass neck of Trump’s media critics. They’ve spent the past 24 hours tearing into Trump’s media man Sean Spicer after he made a stupid, crude Hitler analogy. Which is a bit like Shane MacGowan telling people off for drinking too much. These people have been yelling ‘Hitler!’ for months. From the minute Trump was elected they’ve been having Hitler histrionics, drawing daft comparisons between Trump’s oafish politics and the Nazis’ murderous tyranny, and shouting ‘fascism!’ and ‘1930s!’ like Tourette’s sufferers who’ve watched too much History Channel. It takes a lot of front, all of the front, for them now to finger-wag at others for their inappropriate Hitler talk.

Spicer’s remarks were certainly awful. The idiot was trying to underline how terrible is the Assad regime when he said that even ‘someone as despicable as Hitler’ didn’t ‘sink to using chemical weapons’. Let’s leave to one side that in the space of four or five days the Trump administration has switched from viewing the Assad regime as okay-ish to treating it as literally worse than the worst man who ever lived, rather speaking to a White House that’s morally and mentally out of control.