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> People are saying he's hitler UNIRONICALLY

Like the Tea Party people from a few years ago claiming that Obama was Hitler "unironically" and that Obamacare was a "Nazi program"?

{edit} I'm curious why you didn't see things like this:

http://www.wataugawatch.net/uploaded_images/Tea-party-2-7129...

as "going way past the line?"

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Citation please.

This comes up on the first page of a Google search... It's almost like you didn't search for anything yourself...

http://americablog.com/2013/02/tea-party-obama-is-hitler.htm...

or there is this:

https://kristiann1.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/hitler-t-4-ob...

Right - but I don't think anybody took that seriously. Even the tea partiers saying it most likely only meant it as a 'Obama is a very bad guy and the worst name we can call him is Hitler'.

On the other hand the many liberal journalists prognosticating Trump to become a totalitarian like Hitler really meant it (for example see https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/28/th...)

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