"...The steady increase in Hitler comparisons during the Trump era is not a sign that my law has been repealed. Quite the opposite. Godwin’s Law is more like a law of thermodynamics than an act of Congress — so, not really repealable. And Trump’s express, self-conscious commitment to a franker form of hate-driven rhetoric probably counts as a special instance of the law: The longer a constitutional republic endures — with strong legal and constitutional limits on governmental power — the probability of a Hitler-like political actor pushing to diminish or erase those limits approaches 100 percent.
Will
Trump succeed in being crowned “dictator for a day”? I hope not. But I
choose to take Trump’s increasingly heedless transgressiveness — and,
yes, I really do think he knows what he’s doing — as a positive
development in one sense: More and more of us can see in his cynical
rhetoric precisely the kind of dictator he aims to be." -- Mike Godwin (of Godwin's Law fame) concluding an op/ ed in the Washington Post (h/t MPS for the free link), saying yes, it's o.k. to compare Trump to Hitler. Not taking his increasingly deranged and transgressive rhetoric behavior literally and seriously is not "a luxury we can afford anymore."
BONUS: "If that doesn't alarm you, it should".
