Tucker Carlson shocked nearly everyone last week when he implied that Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and one of the most revered heroes of World War II, had to abandon Christianity in order to turn on Adolf Hitler.
Bonhoeffer attempted to assassinate the Nazi leader and was murdered by the Third Reich in 1945. Bonhoeffer’s actions are almost universally regarded as heroic — but not to Carlson, who <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/us/tucker-carlson-dietrich-bonhoeffer-adolf-hitler/2025/11/13/id/1234491/">declared</a> recently that Bonhoeffer had simply &#8220;decided &#8230; Christianity is not enough, we have to kill the guy.”
Carlson held Bonhoeffer up as a warning to conservatives who criticize antisemitism on the Right, saying, &#8220;once you start calling people Nazis, we really have no choice but to start shooting them,&#8221; Carlson said.
So much sloppy thinking, so little time. 
Carlson is right that falsely labeling someone a “Nazi” or a “fascist” today paints a target on that person. It was reckless, for example, for California Governor Gavin Newsom to call White House advisor Stephen Miller <a href="https://stream.org/gavins-gambit-newsom-doubles-down-on-the-fascist-slander/">a fascist</a>, prompting leftists in Miller’s neighborhood to dox him, plastering telephone poles and lampposts with Miller’s home address.
But what does any of this have to do with Dietrich Bonhoeffer? He wasn’t sloppily using “Nazi” as a slur against his political opponents, the literal Nazis. Nobody was falsely claiming that the ordinary enforcement of just laws amounted to genocidal terror. Genocidal terror was written into the laws of a regime which had seized power in a crisis, suspended the constitution, outlawed all opposition, and stripped Jews of citizenship. 
Literal Nazis, who called themselves “Nazis,” were filling concentration camps with non-violent political dissidents, and preparing a war openly designed to conquer, enslave, and exterminate the peoples of neighboring nations. The Nazi blueprint for obtaining “Lebensraum” in Poland and the Soviet Union, <a href="https://wwv.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206247.pdf">Generalplan Ost</a>, envisioned wiping out some 80 million Slavs by either direct murder or slow starvation, to be replaced by German colonists. 
Carlson’s absurd criticism of Bonhoeffer is rooted in a fundamental misrepresentation of Christianity and its teachings. Despite Jesus’ words about turning the other cheek on a personal level, Christianity was never rigidly pacifist.
By the time of St. Augustine, the Church had developed the “Just War” doctrine, narrowly defining occasions when military action by the state was morally good and right. That teaching is widely accepted by most Christian churches, and codified by the Roman Catholic Church in its <a href="https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/war-and-peace/excerpts-from-catechism-of-the-catholic-church-safeguarding-peace-1997">Catechism</a>.
Catholic teaching holds that a Just War is one in which “the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain,” and “all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective.” There also “must be serious prospects of success” and “the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.”
The language above refers to the actions of the state, not individual citizens. On the surface, it seems only to apply to decisions by nations such as Great Britain and France, whose declarations of war on Germany were obviously just. 
But the Just War analysis doesn’t only apply to states. As I explained in my recent book, “<a href="https://www.calamopress.com/store/no-second-amendment-no-first">No Second Amendment, No First”,</a> during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation religious persecution by intolerant monarchs drove thinkers in both the Jesuit and the Calvinist traditions to ask if those conditions could justify a civil war, a rebellion against a tyrant. Most of them answered “Yes,” and Christian political thinking began for the first time to countenance the overthrow of evil governments by their people. The men who removed King Charles I, and rebelled against French monarchs during the Wars of Religion, cited such arguments. 
So would later rebels, right here in America. Our own Declaration of Independence is actually an eloquent argument that the misgovernment of the 13 colonies by the British parliament and crown amounted to tyranny, and met the Just War requirements, making armed resistance not just permissible but obligatory.
The anti-Nazi resistance to which Dietrich Bonhoeffer belonged was steeped in this same tradition, and saw its efforts to overthrow a wicked tyranny in wartime as perfectly compatible with the broad Christian tradition. Their actions had nothing in common with the violence fostered by irresponsible leftist zealots in our non-tyrannical country in peacetime, which enjoys free elections and a free press.
For the real story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, treat yourself by streaming the recent, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0DQRBSF6S/ref=atv_dp_amz_c_TS8274d9_1_1?jic=16%7CCgNhbGwSA2FsbA%3D%3D">powerful biopic</a> about the man, or reading Eric Metaxas’s <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fclicks.aweber.com%2Fy%2Fct%2F%3Fl%3DFqFpc%26m%3D3XCdD_eFuk3cNaF%26b%3DK55f0DFRsI09TrIYGhU2MQ&amp;data=05%7C02%7C%7Cc0c9bf61e6b1422e8efa08de239ce248%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638987353876021137%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=aDTERBtB%2BmLzyO29EYFDyIh%2F8siQ%2B153YsTF2xJeGhA%3D&amp;reserved=0">magisterial book</a> on his inspiring life. And remember to always take with a grain of salt anything claimed by a certain former bow-tie-wearing war hawk with a maniacal laugh.
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John Zmirak is author of many books, including the biography of anti-Nazi exile <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wilhelm-Ropke-Library-Modern-Thinkers/dp/1882926560/ref=sr_1_1?crid=34MC41KJSEC8Z&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.IFJtRxoqeob52UgE206MCA.1YpaMP-rgHyaWkbhgF5AQT2XVjYRBIJOa9zsKPTGzuQ&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Wilhelm+Ropke%3A+Swiss+Localist%2C+Global+Economist&amp;qid=1763142650&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=wilhelm+ropke+swiss+localist%2C+global+economist%2Cstripbooks%2C79&amp;sr=1-1">Wilhelm Röpke</a>, and the recent <a href="https://www.calamopress.com/store/no-second-amendment-no-first">No Second Amendment, No First</a>.
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Former President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden admitted on a recent podcast that President Donald Trump is not, in fact, the next incarnation of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler — but then he claimed that was only because Hitler, unlike Trump, had a &#8220;plan.&#8221;
Biden, during an interview on the &#8220;<a href="https://youtu.be/YRfS0YrKGRc?si=XrvxnaZYKJyHn_z1&amp;t=2143">Wide Awake Podcast</a>,&#8221; claimed that Trump differed from the German dictator largely because Hitler had been driven by &#8220;ideology&#8221; — whereas he believed Trump was only driven by &#8220;corruption&#8221; and a &#8220;white nationalist&#8221; world view.
Biden began with a question — namely, how did the German people allow Hitler&#8217;s rise to power — and he suggested that the United States might be going through a similar situation.
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🚨NEW: Hunter Biden: &#8220;I&#8217;m not saying that Donald Trump is Hitler — because Hitler had an ideology. And he had a grand plan.&#8221;
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&#8220;I’m not saying that there is a Holocaust, and by the way, I’m not saying that Donald Trump is Hitler. Because Hitler had an ideology. And he had a grand plan,&#8221; Biden claimed, adding, &#8220;Donald Trump is purely corrupt.&#8221;
&#8220;Donald Trump is a narcissistic sociopath who only cares about one thing, and that’s Donald Trump. And he is a clown in that respect,&#8221; he added, saying Trump was actually more like the &#8220;Butcher of Uganda,&#8221; Idi Amin.
Biden, who has spent most of his adult life profiting from his father&#8217;s political positions, went on to complain that President Trump&#8217;s family has continued to make money while he served as president. His comments echoed those of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-send-hunter-bidens-father-to-lecture-americans-on-trump-profiting-from-presidency">his father</a>, the former president, who made almost the same complaint days earlier.
&#8220;Has anyone noticed how much the Trump family has made while he’s been president? A reported $1.8 billion,” Biden began, his tone soft. He abruptly began shouting as he added, “Can you imagine if any other president in American history did that? Can you imagine what would happen?&#8221;
Grok provided the perfect response to the former president: &#8220;Biden’s claim overlooks his family’s multimillion-dollar deals with foreign entities during and after his VP tenure, per House investigations and bank records. Trump’s family businesses operated separately, with him donating his full presidential salary to charity—hardly equivalent profiteering.&#8221;
In addition to the fact that President Trump has donated his salary the entire time that he has been president, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/chart-shows-net-worth-us-presidents-before-after-office-1992975" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports indicate</a> that Trump is the only president in recent history to see his net worth drop after a term or two in the Oval Office, as The Daily Wire previously reported. When Trump first took office in 2017, he had an estimated net worth of $3 billion — and when he left office in early 2021, his net worth had fallen to $2.3 billion.

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Hard-left Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) once again showed the country just how unhinged her rhetoric has become, doubling down on her claim that President Donald Trump is a “wannabe Hitler,” defending her word choice as “accurate” in a CNN interview on Sunday.
Crockett, a darling of the progressive Left and a fixture on MSNBC, first made the comparison on July 20 during an appearance on “Alex Witt Reports.” In that segment, she accused the GOP of being complicit in shielding Trump, declaring: “We have someone that is occupying the White House, and, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, he is an enemy to the United States. … I have called him so many things, but this wannabe Hitler, for sure.”
Rather than walk back the Adolf Hitler comparison — an absurd and grotesque minimization of real historic evil — Crockett leaned in. Pressed by CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” on Sunday about whether elected officials should avoid inflammatory rhetoric in an age of increasing political violence, Crockett responded:
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I think that my responsibility is to be transparent and to be honest. And the reality is that we are living in a time in which this administration and this regime is not interested in making sure that people understand history. We need to understand why they are so problematic. And so I am using that language because it is accurate language when we see the consolidation of power, when we see them trying to chill speech of jokesters, when we&#8217;re seeing all of this.  That is a playbook out of Hitler. And I won&#8217;t deny it.
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Apparently, for Crockett, using the Holocaust as a political prop isn’t off-limits — so long as it helps demonize Trump and his supporters.
This isn’t an isolated outburst. Crockett has made a name for herself by trafficking in vulgarity and personal attacks. Back in March, at an event hosted by the Human Rights Campaign, she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/governor-hot-wheels-jasmine-crockett-mocks-greg-abbotts-disability">mocked</a> Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s disability, calling the wheelchair-bound Republican “Governor Hot Wheels” and a “hot-a** mess.”
Crockett’s pattern of incendiary language goes beyond insults. In mid-August, she smeared black conservatives who might consider voting Republican, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jasmine-crockett-black-voters-arent-republicans-because-they-cant-hang-out-with-the-kkk">saying</a>: “Most black people are not Republicans simply because we just is (sic) like, ‘Y’all racist. I can&#8217;t hang out with the KKK and them!’”
This came on the heels of her claim in May that Republicans are “inherently violent” and that most of their brutality is “against people with a little bit of melanin.”
Last spring, Crockett appeared to flirt with open incitement, saying of X owner Elon Musk: “All I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down.” Attorney General Pam Bondi blasted the statement as “domestic terrorism,” warning that Crockett was playing with fire by making veiled threats while claiming innocence.
Crockett now sits on the DOGE Oversight Committee — ironically claiming to fight misinformation while pushing Hitler analogies, racial smears, and ableist insults. Whether it&#8217;s mocking the disabled, calling conservatives Nazis, or insinuating that violence is just part of being Republican, Crockett has become the unfiltered id of the progressive movement.

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Right-wing political commentator Tucker Carlson&#8217;s latest podcast episode featured a Cornell professor who suggested that there&#8217;s a good argument to be made for the United States backing Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during World War II instead of fighting the Nazis with Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union.
David Collum, a chemistry and chemical biology professor at the Ivy League school, told Carlson in an episode published on Wednesday that he read a book about the &#8220;revisionist history of World War II&#8221; and came away believing that &#8220;the story we got about World War II is all wrong, actually.&#8221;
&#8220;I think that&#8217;s right,&#8221; Carlson replied.
&#8220;One can make the argument [that] we should have sided with Hitler and fought Stalin,&#8221; Collum added. &#8220;Patton said that. And maybe there wouldn&#8217;t have been a holocaust, right? But Stalin was awful by any metric, and we weren&#8217;t his ally.&#8221;
In the episode, which can be viewed in full <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orgvAk7JhBI&amp;t=3943s">here</a>, Carlson offered no pushback to Collum&#8217;s claim that a U.S.-Nazi alliance would have been preferable during World War II, or to the bizarre idea that the U.S. siding with Hitler would have somehow prevented the Nazi regime from murdering six million Jews.
The Nazis <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/articles/zkxwgwx">began</a> instituting antisemitic laws in 1935, four years before the beginning of World War II and six years before the United States declared war on Germany. Jewish persecution intensified in 1937 and 1938 when Nazis began throwing people into concentration camps, and nearly 100 Jews were killed during the Kristallnacht pogrom. Hitler began creating concentration camps specifically for Jews in 1940, a year before U.S. troops joined its European allies to fight the Nazis. The largest mass murder of Jews under Hitler took place in 1942, just months after the United States had joined the fight.
As for Collum&#8217;s claim that Patton wanted to side with Hitler, there&#8217;s no historical record to back it up. While U.S. General George S. Patton believed that the Soviet Union would pose a major threat to the United States, he never advocated for siding with Hitler to fight Stalin. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill also said in the years following World War II that the Soviet Union was &#8220;in some ways more formidable than Hitler,&#8221; but he never suggested that it would have been better to fight Stalin alongside the Nazis.
Diana West, the author of the book that Collum credited for his revisionist take on World War II, said on Thursday that her book &#8220;does not argue for anything remotely like aligning with Hitler.&#8221;
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The former Fox News host was blasted after clips of Collum&#8217;s comments began circulating on social media.
&#8220;So now we should’ve backed Hitler? Let’s see if these sh*t heads are denounced by any but a handful of us on radio or TV,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/marklevinshow/status/1958345094001553896">said</a> conservative broadcaster Mark Levin.
Carlson <a href="https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1958552781242991095">responded</a> to Levin, writing, &#8220;Settle down, Mark. Nobody endorsed Hitler.&#8221;
During his interview with Carlson, Collum also claimed that when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a war.&#8221;
&#8220;It was a police action,&#8221; Collum said. &#8220;And they weren&#8217;t killing people. They were moving troops across the border.&#8221;
Nearly 60 people were killed and 170 people were wounded on the first day of Russia&#8217;s invasion, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-57-people-killed-first-day-russian-invasion-2022-02-24/">according</a> to Ukrainian authorities.
The Cornell professor added that it only became a war because &#8220;NATO wanted a war,&#8221; suggesting that the U.S.-European alliance was the aggressor in the conflict.
&#8220;And so, it morphed from being a police action, which I think Putin was trying to throw a fast ball past NATO&#8217;s chin and saying, &#8216;Back off on this whole NATO thing,'&#8221; Collum said.
&#8220;That&#8217;s correct,&#8221; Carlson replied.

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Americans may be shocked by Zohran Mamdani’s radical politics. But the communist upstart’s views wouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar with his father.
Mahmood Mamdani, a professor at Columbia University, claimed on a panel at the Jaipur Literature Festival in New York in 2022 that Hitler was inspired by Abraham Lincoln, that the antisemitic Nuremberg laws were patterned after American laws, and that “the Nazi political project was shared by the allies.”
The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFATiIOE0bM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> centered around the release of his book, “Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making And Unmaking Of Permanent Minorities,” which “explores the nature of the nation-state, and the path to a reimagined, decolonized future.”
Mahmood Mamdani began by saying that “America is the genesis of what we call settler-colonialism” around the world. He goes on to say that Adolf Hitler got the idea of the Holocaust from President Abraham Lincoln:
“With the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations, they herded American Indians into separate territories. For the Nazis, this was the inspiration — Hitler realized two things: one, that genocide is doable. It is possible to do genocide, that’s what Hitler realized. Second thing Hitler realized is that you don’t have to have a common citizenship.”
Mahmood Mamdani also said that Nazi Germany’s racist and antisemitic <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/nuremberg-laws" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nuremberg Laws</a> were “patterned after American laws.”
Moreover, “The Nazi political project was shared by the Allies, and that political project was to turn Germany into a ‘pure’ nation.”
“When the Allies defeated the Nazis and went into Eastern Europe, they began to create ‘pure’ nations. To ethnically cleanse Eastern Europe of Germans — move them back into Germany. One crime doesn’t wipe out another.”
Mahmood Mamdani’s book reveals a blatantly Marxist philosophy: “There are two kinds of identities, there is the identity of the oppressor and the identity of the oppressed,” he said.
He argues that “The nation state is what prevents us from living together.” This is because “The majority precedes democracy.” The tension between citizen and subject, or majority and minority, is an inherent consequence of colonialism:
“I argue that nationalism and colonialism are not two different things. We normally think of two kinds of nationalism, good nationalism and bad nationalism. Good nationalism brought us together and bad nationalism targeted other minorities. The important thing to realize is that these two things happen at the same time, they are two sides of the same coin,” he stated.
In order to eliminate oppression, Mamdani argues that we need to <a href="https://novaramedia.com/2025/07/03/if-you-like-zohran-mamdani-youre-going-to-love-his-dad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismantle</a> “colonialist architecture,” stating that “the tribes must take charge and the tribes must be sovereign.”
In an interview with the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-parents-mira-nair.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a>, the elder Mamdani stressed that Zohran is “his own person.”
“Now, of course what we do as his parents is part of the environment in which he grew up, and he couldn’t help but engage with it. That doesn’t mean anything is reflected back on us.”
Zohran’s mother, the director Amrit Nair, disagreed: “Of course the world we live in, and what we write and film and think about, is the world that Zohran has very much absorbed.”
Zohran Mamdani self-identifies as a democratic socialist and has espoused numerous radical socialist policies, including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/realestate/mamdani-rent-freeze-real-estate.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">freezing the rent</a> on a million apartments, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/nyregion/mamdani-policies-economy-housing-buses-childcare.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raising the minimum wage</a> to 30$ by 2030, making child care and the bus system free, replacing police with teams of <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a7ejjSZWWIAcxfcWnkYaqvnjihTb0LAOQkj8g10-npg/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.2gazcsgmxkub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mental health professionals</a>, and establishing city-run grocery stores.
PolitiFact recently rebuffed President Donald Trump’s claim that Zohran Mamdani was a communist. But, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/politifact-says-mamdani-is-not-a-communist-the-expert-they-cite-is-a-socialist?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=20&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=PolitiFact+Says+Mamdani+Is+Not+A+Communist.+The+Expert+They+Cite+Is+A+Socialist." target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, the expert they cited was himself a longtime socialist.

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Earlier this month, we celebrated the 80th anniversary of V-E Day, “Victory in Europe,” which marked the end of the European Theater’s part in the Second World War. It is a date certainly worth commemorating as it closed one of the darkest chapters in European history, which was the rise and fall of Hitler’s Third Reich.
For the countries in what today we call Western Europe that languished for years under the jackboot of Nazi oppression — France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Greece — the Allied victory truly represented liberation.
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But there was another side to V-E Day that seems to get glossed over. And that is the less happy fate of the Eastern European nations who were not liberated by the Anglo-Americans rolling in from the west, but rather the Red Army coming in from the east. And for those nations — Poland, Hungary, then-Czechoslovakia, the Baltic states — V-E Day merely meant trading one brutal oppressor for another. Indeed, as the Allies were closing in from both sides, the dark joke in Germany was “Optimists are learning English, pessimists are learning Russian.”
We have been conditioned for over 80 years to viscerally recoil at the very mention of the Führer’s name. Just say “Hitler” and the mind conjures up images of the Holocaust and mass murder of millions of innocents carried out by robotic, goose-stepping stormtroopers wearing their signature coal scuttle helmets.
Yet, when we utter the name “Stalin,” no such dark imagery materializes in the collective mind. And yet, in terms of pure numbers, it can be argued that the Soviet “Man of Steel” had more blood on his hands than even Hitler. Why the indifferent reaction?
It could perhaps be attributed to a curious media/academic tendency of apologetics towards communism. As polls consistently show, both of these institutions lean very much to the left. And Stalinism is the ultimate expression of their collective leftist ideology come to fruition in all its destructive inevitability. During the 1930s, for example, dispatches from Moscow-based New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty were shamefully obsequious towards Stalin, offering up for his readers images of a prosperous, happy communist USSR workers’ paradise.
No matter that the Soviet dictator was coldly stripping Ukraine of food and inducing a famine in 1932-1933 (called the “Holodomor”) during which anywhere from 3.5 to 5 million Ukrainians died of starvation — atrocities Duranty labeled as a “big scare” and “exaggeration.”
Then there was Stalin’s 1929-1933 genocide against the Kulaks (wealthy peasants who resisted his policies) to facilitate the expropriation of farmland. In one directive, the Soviet leader declared, “We must smash the Kulaks, liquidate them as a class.” Millions died.
And what of the estimated 700,000 to 6 million who died in Stalin’s Gulag, the far-flung network of concentration camps where he sent his enemies, whom the hyper-paranoid dictator saw all around him. (Figures vary widely; the latter number comes from dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was imprisoned for eight years.)
Starting in 1936, Stalin wiped out his political and military adversaries in a series of show trials called “The Great Purge.” Stalin’s biographer Oleg V. Khlevniuk estimates that 1.6 million were arrested, with 700,000 shot; no one knows how many died of torture.
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During the Second World War on the Eastern Front, Stalin was so profligate with the lives of his people that by the time the red banner of the USSR was flying over the Reichstag in the conquered Berlin, some 27 million Soviets lay dead. Many as a result of combat and German atrocities, of course, but also due to Stalin’s unimaginative strategies that callously offered up both his soldiers and civilians before the guns of the Wehrmacht as fodder.
Whereas Hitler’s policies were driven by twisted racial hatred, delusions of grandeur, a sense of grievance on behalf of a nation he felt was ill-treated at Versailles, and, by the end, drug-addled bona fide madness, Stalin in some ways is even more disturbing as there was a cold, calculating, and ruthless nature to his machinations.
Stalin will also go down as one of the most treacherous characters in history. It should be remembered that until Hitler turned on him and attacked Russia in June 1941, Stalin and the German dictator were allies. Hitler only felt secure enough to invade Poland and trigger the Second World War because Berlin and Moscow had just entered into a non-aggression pact the month before. In fact, people often forget that in September 1939, Poland was not just invaded by the Wehrmacht but also by the Red Army. After which, Stalin’s NKVD promptly rounded up 22,000 members of Poland’s military and intelligentsia, marched them to the Katyn Forest, and shot them all dead.
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Says historian Victor Davis Hanson: “Of the six major belligerents of World War II, on the Axis side, Italy, Japan, and Germany, and the United States, Russia, and Britain, Stalin made a deal with every one of them at one time or another, and he honored the ones with the Axis better than he did us.”
But, unlike Hitler, Stalin’s image during the war was softened by the Roosevelt administration and pliant media due to the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. FDR, especially, was hopelessly naïve about the duplicitous nature of the man whose military he was now supplying through Lend-Lease. As far as he saw it, the Russians were now our allies after all. And, frankly, we needed the Red Army to kill as many Germans as possible before we invaded France. The mass murderer of Moscow was thus re-christened “Uncle Joe” Stalin. And as it was his Red Army more than any other that destroyed the Wehrmacht, what he did to his own people and those in Eastern Europe were swept under the rug until the Cold War commenced in the late 1940s. After all, as the saying goes, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
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80 years after the war in Europe ended, modern Germany is still horrified by, and ashamed of, their Nazi past. But to this day, even in a post-Cold War Russia in which information regarding the horrific crimes carried out by the Bolsheviks is now widely accessible, Stalin is revered by the Russian people. A 2021 poll by the Levada Center found that 70% of Russians held a mostly or very favorable view of Stalin.
And that same lack of revulsion over Stalin’s decades-long reign of terror carries over into the West today as a misguided affinity for Marxism slithers its insidious way through the halls of so-called higher education. A poll by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that millennials, particularly younger ones, displayed a dreadful ignorance of communism and even support for it. Almost half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 20 “said they would vote for a socialist, while 21% would go so far as to back a Communist.” Even more shocking was that a “third of millennials say they believe more people were killed under George W. Bush than Joseph Stalin.” This is criminal negligence on the part of academia — and dangerous.
I have a shirt that reads “Communism killed 100 million people and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.” Though gallows humor, the message is also a searing indictment of a left-leaning academic and media establishment that are utterly dismissive of the crimes perpetrated by the founding fathers of their own defunct and cruel ideologies. The verdict of history should have condemned Soviet communism to the ashbin of history decades ago. But a fatal attraction for this defunct ideology that invariably leads to mass murder is alive and well in the West today. This is a tragedy — and dangerous.
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Brad Schaeffer is a commodities fund manager, author, and columnist whose articles have appeared on the pages of The Daily Wire, The Wall Street Journal, NY Post, NY Daily News, National Review, The Hill, The Federalist, Zerohedge, and other outlets. He is the author of three <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07MQJBJSD?ccs_id=55112527-86f6-4c89-b82e-a96d6869abed" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07MQJBJSD?ccs_id%3D55112527-86f6-4c89-b82e-a96d6869abed&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1736518135479000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3K_WhJtiUZw7LF1PwSIHtH">books</a>. Follow him on <a href="https://x.com/bschaeffer123" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://x.com/bschaeffer123&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1736518135479000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0P6pRoAqcBhUQ1W0qwN5rH">X/Twitter</a>.
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Larry David can’t stand the fact that Bill Maher didn’t hate Donald Trump after they had dinner together.
The 77-year-old “Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator wrote an opinion piece attacking Maher for being open-minded, repeating the tired trope throughout the piece that Trump is Hitler.
The satirical <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/larry-david-hitler-dinner.html">essay</a> based on Maher’s remarks, titled “My Dinner With Adolf,” was published by The New York Times on Monday. 
“I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship,” David wrote, pretending to tell the story from Maher’s perspective. “But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side.”
David went on, “I joked that I was surprised to see him in a tan suit because if he wore that out, it would be perceived as un-Führer-like. That amused him to no end, and I realized I’d never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human. Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning.”
“‘I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn’t mean that we have to hate each other.’ And with that, I gave him a Nazi salute and walked out into the night,” David’s essay says.
Maher, who has been openly critical of Trump, had a private dinner with the president earlier this month. He later admitted to enjoying himself and feeling better about the president on his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxlopbcfXpQ">show</a>, &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher.&#8221;
“And I know as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. ‘Oh, my God, Bill, you gonna say something nice about him?’ What I’m gonna do is report exactly what happened. You decide what you think about it, and if that’s not enough pure Trump hate for you, I don’t give a f***,” Maher said of the meeting. 
“I don’t remember exactly what we were talking about, but it must have been something with the 2020 election because I know he used the word ‘lost,’ and I distinctly remember saying, ‘Wow, I never thought I’d hear you say that,’” Maher added. “He didn’t get mad. He’s much more self-aware than he lets on in public.”
“Everything I’ve ever not liked about him was — I swear to God — absent, at least on this night with this guy,” the “Real Time” host said. “He mostly steered the conversation to, ‘What do you think about this?’ I know: your mind is blown. So is mine.”
“A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House,” he added. “A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there, which I know is f***ed up. It’s just not as f***ed up as I thought it was.”

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Elon Musk on Thursday after far-Left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and others smeared him as a Nazi for a gesture that he made during President Donald Trump&#8217;s inaugural celebrations earlier this week.
Musk made the gesture at the end of his remarks inside Capitol One Arena when he told the crowd, “Thank you. My heart goes out to you.”
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DO NOT BELIEVE THE MEDIA
The media is misleading you. Elon Musk never did a Nazi salute. Watch the full video: He simply gestured and said, “Thank you, my heart goes out to you.” <a href="https://t.co/e3vBaLoVqx">pic.twitter.com/e3vBaLoVqx</a>
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) <a href="https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1881451556656345170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez made the accusation during remarks she made during an Instagram livestream.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t care what Elon Musk is doing behind a presidential seal,&#8221; she said. &#8220;In this country, we hate Nazis.&#8221;
&#8220;I like, you&#8217;re gonna do a Sieg Heil, you&#8217;re going to do a Heil Hitler &#8230; from behind the presidential seal of the United States of America?&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s on! It&#8217;s on!&#8221;
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Netanyahu responded to accusations by saying that Musk was &#8220;being falsely smeared.&#8221;
&#8220;Elon is a great friend of Israel,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.&#8221;
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&#8220;He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I thank him for this.&#8221;
Even the left-wing Anti-Defamation League (ADL) defended Musk over the accusations.
&#8220;It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge,&#8221; they said. &#8220;In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.&#8221;
AOC fumed at the ADL&#8217;s statement: &#8220;Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity.&#8221;
&#8220;People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You work for them. Thank you for making that crystal clear to all.&#8221;

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Sunny Hostin, a far-left co-host of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; slammed the co-hosts of MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; for going to Mar-a-Lago to try to curry favor with President-elect Donald Trump.
&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said during Monday morning’s show that they met with Trump over the weekend “to restart communications.”
It was the first time that they had spoken to him in seven years after they have repeatedly attacked him, including comparing him to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
The show has been so rabidly hostile to Trump that MSNBC pulled it off the air the day after Trump was shot because the network was reportedly worried about what might be said on air.
&#8220;The bottom line is that America needs a free press that is willing to speak truth to power right now more than ever,&#8221; Hostin claimed. &#8220;And I think that we have to be very clear eyed when we think about the president-elect and cover the president-elect.&#8221;
&#8220;And I don&#8217;t think you need to sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring to be able to speak truth and to be able to cover a story,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;So maybe they&#8217;re not journalists in the true sense.&#8221;
Hostin claimed Trump was &#8220;the guy who ushered in the era of fake news.&#8221;
&#8220;He is the guy who ushered in alternative facts,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;He is the guy who attacked three black female journalists. He&#8217;s the guy that revoked Jim Acosta&#8217;s press credentials for asking him a question. And so I think that this president-elect, I hate to say it would like nothing more than to have only Fox News cover him. Would like nothing more than a state-sponsored media.&#8221;
She concluded by claiming that Trump could not &#8220;be trusted in the way that other presidents can be trusted.&#8221;
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Sunny Hostin of The View voiced her outrage over MSNBC’s Morning Joe hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, holding a meeting with Donald Trump.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think you need to sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/mrH8tLG53c">pic.twitter.com/mrH8tLG53c</a>
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1858582668201341349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said in an interview over the weekend that he believes President-elect Donald Trump is another dictator like Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini.
Clyburn made the remarks during a Saturday interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Cavuto Live&#8221; while talking about the country&#8217;s shift to the political Right in this month&#8217;s elections.
&#8220;We go from left to right in this country,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We go from right back left in this country. And I always say, well whether the pendulum is going from left to right or right to left, it always passes through the middle.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, the country has gone lurching back to the right,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I hope it’s not going as far right as that which happened in Germany in the 1930s. But you may remember I forewarned way back in 2018 that I saw this coming. I’ve studied history all of my life.&#8221;
Cavuto pushed back, asking if he was saying that he is &#8220;envisioning another Hitler.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s exactly what I’m saying,&#8221; Clyburn said. &#8220;I said the 1930s in Germany. And of course, we go to Mussolini in Italy.&#8221;
Clyburn added that he was not being hyperbolic by making the comparison.
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🚨Wow. Democrats are still calling President Trump Hitler:
Neil Cavuto: “Are you envisioning [Trump] as another Hitler — is that what you’re saying?”
Jim Clyburn: “That’s exactly what I’m saying!”
Cavuto: “You don’t think that’s a little hyperbolic?”
Clyburn: “You may think… <a href="https://t.co/gm3ver1qC9">pic.twitter.com/gm3ver1qC9</a>
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) <a href="https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1857814457071632581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
Republican strategist Steve Guest responded to the clip by posting on X: &#8220;Democrats are rhetorical arsonists who don’t care about the consequences of their rhetoric.&#8221;
&#8220;President-elect Trump had already faced multiple assassination attempts,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Clyburn’s comments this morning only add fuel to the fire.&#8221;
Claremont Institute senior fellow Jeremy Carl made a similar assessment of Clyburn&#8217;s remarks.
&#8220;Former long-time member of Democrat leadership throwing around this type of dangerous language at a President who has already been the victim of two assassination attempts,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s dangerous and outrageous.&#8221;
Radio host Julie Gunlock posted on X: &#8220;Yup. They want him dead. They’ll keep saying it.&#8221;

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Democrat Jim Clyburn: Not Hyperbolic To Say Trump Is Another Hitler, Mussolini

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Popular radio host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/charlamagne-tha-god" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charlamagne tha God</a> weighed in on President Joe Biden&#8217;s cordial meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday, and he admitted to having a hard time wrapping his head around how that all went down.
During his Thursday morning broadcast, he recalled how Biden — along with the rest of his party and a whole host of media talking heads — had been referring to Trump as a &#8220;fascist&#8221; or suggesting that he was the second coming of Adolf Hitler just days earlier. What he didn&#8217;t understand, he said, was how Biden had pivoted so easily from calling Trump an &#8220;existential threat&#8221; to inviting him into the White House for a pleasant conversation.
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Charlamagne on Biden welcoming Trump to White House: &quot;What happened to the threat of democracy talk? What happened to the fascist talk? &#8230; I&#39;m just trying to figure out, how do you go from, &#39;He&#39;s an existential threat to democracy&#39; to &#39;Welcome back&#39;?&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/b8a9jfvhGJ">pic.twitter.com/b8a9jfvhGJ</a>
&mdash; Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1857117242565054606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I just don&#8217;t understand the White House visit,&#8221; he began. &#8220;Granted, I&#8217;m glad there&#8217;s a peaceful transition of power, but what happened to the threat of democracy talk? What happened to the fascist talk?&#8221;
&#8220;By the way, I know I&#8217;ve said those things about Trump as well,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But I&#8217;m not talking about me. I&#8217;m talking about his political opponents like President Biden. When they say it, it holds way more weight than me. I&#8217;m just trying to figure out, how to you go from &#8216;He&#8217;s an existential threat to democracy&#8217; to &#8216;Welcome back&#8217;?&#8221;
DJ Envy, Charlamagne&#8217;s cohost, weighed in then, noting that Biden had looked happy during the meeting and had been &#8220;cheesing&#8221; for the cameras.
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Charlamagne went on to say that he understood Biden held himself up as an advocate for certain political &#8220;norms,&#8221; but still couldn&#8217;t quite make it all make sense in his mind.
By the end of the segment, he appeared to give up entirely, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna stop minding white people&#8217;s business.&#8221;
The popular host had broached the subject earlier, asking last Friday why prominent members of the Democratic Party had suddenly stopped referring to Trump as a &#8220;threat to democracy.&#8221;
&#8220;Don’t y’all find it strange that now that he’s won, they’re not calling him a threat to democracy? They’re not calling him a fascist. I mean, damn, on Monday, they was just calling him that. I would think that, you know, if you really believe that, then somebody’s speech would be about how America ‘effed up and how things are about to be really bad. It just makes you wonder how much of it did they really believe, or how much of it was just politics. That’s all,&#8221; he said at the time.

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