After reading Mr. Sowell's extemely inappropriate analogy between Ted Cruz allegedly dividing the Republican Party and the ascension of Hitler to the status of dictator due to a divided coalition of non-Nazis in Germany, I dusted off my copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and found that there is simply no way an intelligent informed conservative could make that analogy.
Ted Cruz is standing against the dictator while Bohner and McConnell are poised to surrender their power to Obama in a vain attempt to head off an attempt to force them to live up to their commitments to the principles upon which they ran for office and obtained their positions of power.
If Sowell wanted to make a more correct analogy he could have compared Bohner and McConnell to Franz von Papen the supposed middle of the road fence sitter who decided to throw in with the Nazis in order to head off the Communists.
In Germany in 1933 there was either going to be a communist coalition or a Nazi coalition. There was no possibility of Germany going in a direction towards liberty. In fact there were no parties that were advocating anything even approaching a libertarian direction. Germany was headed for a totalitarian regime either run by Commies or Nazis.
Ted Cruz has offered us a choice for Liberty and the GOPe is busy trying to destroy the Tea Party and instead form a coalition with so called Moderate Democrats in order to keep guys like Ted Cruz out of Washington.
I heard Mark Levin mention that a revered columnist that he respected wrote a couple of columns in the last few days that were so far off the mark that he couldn't believe it. He was obviously referring to Sowell, but he didn't mention him by name.
I think Sowell owes Ted Cruz an apology for trying to link his principled stands to the capitulation of the squishy middle in Germany that led to the ascension of the Nazis in 1933. It was a disgusting way to make a stupid point.
What Sowell did, and not the way that I would do it, was throw the specter of imminent tyranny onto the table for discussion. I agree that politically, Germany in 1932 is a terrible analogy for the USA in 2014. Be that as it may, it will now be acceptable for other mainstream pundits to speak openly about the process of tyrannization that is now underway.