Too much Hitler. First Bush, then Ahmadajsfoknaewicnfs, then Harper, now Chavez. Why not Napoleon III? That works for the "legally elected, consolidated power" routine.
Is the whole "You're Hitler" a new concept? Personally, I thought it was nice to hear someone more deserving get that title for once. But you are right, still rather lame.
Well, Hitler is more popular for comparison, because (A)He has a fun-to-pronounce name, and (B)He represents not REAL evil in most peoples' minds, but a sort of cartoonish evil.
I have to agree.
Everyone busts out the "hitler" way too much these days and it waters down what the true level of what "hitler" represents.
While Chavez is a communist POS, he is nowhere near the level of Hitler.
"Why not Napoleon III? That works for the "legally elected, consolidated power" routine."
Maybe to a bunch of people with history doctorates. The majority of readers of his comments are strained to produce 2 sentences about his namesake, Napoleon Bonaparte.
Of course the same group might not get a paragraph about hitler, or name the major countries he fought the second world war against, or get the side of the USSR wrong. You surely know the general % on popular ignorance of history. 1 in 50 can name the leaders of the USSR and Third Reigh at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa.