I like that analogy. I was thinking of the Jews in Nazi Germany, myself. Every political huckster needs an enemy.
I read some quotations from various Soviet officials about the Kulaks, and if you substitute “Tea Party member” for that group, it’s downright spooky how similar the rhetoric is to what the American leftists are saying today. The same class warfare, the same isolating and demonizing of targets like the Soviets...
(Of course the German National Socialists had the same hatred for Jewish capitalists, as well.)