Steve Bannon.

[Dill]

(02-14-2017, 08:29 PM)bfine32 Wrote: You can make all the correlations you want and allow others to evaluate your rationale; but don't insult my intelligence by asserting you are making such comparisons out of fairness.

Unclear what you mean by "fairness."  But you may have hit upon a big difference between Trump supporters and Trump opponents.

The point of political comparisons /analogies is to produce understanding and re-evaluation of policies and candidates. Everyone understands (or should) that analogies are always partial; politicians, historical and political circumstances are never identical. Still, comparisons/analogies help us avoid errors of past candidates and policies.

They are only "unfair" if factually false, or distorting--as in emphasizing traits in one candidate which also exist in an opponent, or all candidates in general, or in creating false equivalences.

So the "intent" of anyone making comparisons should not play a role in judging the validity of his comparisons. Rather the comparisons should be judged on whether correlations made are accurate, based on factual evidence.  And if they are, then the comparison is not "unfair" just because the result does not favor some favored candidate or policy.

If I point out that Hitler hated liberals, tore up treaties, called the press liars, and wanted to boot immigrants and expand the military, and that Trump also hates liberals, calls the press liars, and wants to tear up treaties, boot immigrants and expand the military, the validity of those correlations in no way depends on whether I, personally, want to be "fair" or "unfair."  The historical record is there to check and it remains unchanged whether I want to be fair or not.

So I don't expect anyone to assume I am making a comparison out of "fairness." I expect them to either accept the comparison as valid--"fair" if you will--or explain why it is not.  

Same goes when others are making comparisons. I care only whether the correlations are true, not whether the person making them was fair or unfair.