As one of my Jesuit high school teachers taught our class, since only God is perfect, even if a man purposely tries to be 100% evil, 100% of the time, that man will certainly fail and, occasionally, come up with something really good and, sometimes, downright lovable.
The guy standing behind Hitler spent a little too much time in the tanning booth.
The author is not breaking Godwin’s law because he is not making an analogy. You may disagree with his conclusions, but the author spends a lot of time talking about history with many links that would take a long time for people to sort through, read, and think about (and chew some cud). By the way, hippies certainly loved the VW van in their day, didn’t they?
Now, if you had shown a picture of a 911, I would think about it. But a bug? “Dis vill be mein revenge on der American schwein, Ferdie. An ugly little car mit no engine.”