Sometimes Argumentum ad Hitlerum is apropos.
When it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it is logical to assume that you are dealing with a duck.
Some would call that Argumentum ad Ducktum and call it a logical fallacy.
Perhaps you would prefer Agumentum ad Stalinum?
“The Divine One” is simply a bad governor.
In this case, the more appropriate simile might be “step like a goose”...