08-26-2020, 01:49 PM
(08-26-2020, 01:42 PM)Dill Wrote: The autobahn was your "meaningless" example.
Dear god, not in the way you just used it.
Quote:But Ike's political opponents wouldn't make much of his stealing the idea from Hitler because building highways was a non-partisan issue, a good idea whomever it came from. Ideas aren't bad just because they came from Hitler. Building roads doesn't undermine democracy.
It also didn't make him a Nazi, did it?
Quote:But denigrating the free press and undermining confidence in free elections do undermine democracy.
Indeed. Should they invite comparisons to Adolf Hitler though? Or is that maybe a bridge too far and is only being done to be intentionally inflammatory?
