
Even if we take that as a given, which it manifestly is not. The fact remains that before Trump was called a Nazi, before literally half the country were called Nazis, bush was called a Nazi, Ted Cruz was called a Nazi, Mitt Romney was called a Nazi. Itās an obvious fact that those people are not Nazis. Yet you guys sling the term around so freely it has essentially lost all meaning in the modern lexicon. Iāve been called a Nazi for being Catholic.
I agree that in the past the term was overused however when you have politicians spouting the great replacement theory, enacting policies that seek to consolidate power into the power of the executive, and who demonizes brown people on a systemic level, that sounds like a kind of nazism.
In the EXTREMELY limited sense in which thatās true, and not a phantasm of the leftist imagination, itās often far closer to various forms of nasty politics from the past than it is to nazism. A frequent mistake people make is the assumption that ābad politics on the right = Naziā. Thatās not true, nazism is a very specific kind of idealistic, racial, ultranationalist socialism characterized by a very narrow set of beliefs and principles.
Is it evil? Yes. Is it a blanket term for all evil on the right? No. And using it as a blanket term for people you donāt like guts the term of its intrinsic meaning and robs it of its power. The definition of a Nazi to many modern people is āsomeone who disagrees with a leftist.ā Which is laughably far from the truth.