A reasonable rule is that once you begin making an argument ad Hitlerum—comparing some malevolent politician to Hitler or some malignant movement to the Nazis, or declaring a brutal (but non-eliminationist) war a genocide comparable to the Holocaust—you have lost the plot. The facile but extreme analogy is the first resort of the unimaginative alarmist.
To this we should now add the argument ad Or...
The article presents a compelling critique of historical analogies in political discourse, particularly the tendency to equate contemporary figures with Hitler or Orbán. The strongest version of this argument is that such comparisons are often hyperbolic and undermine serious analysis. The piece effectively highlights Orbán's electoral defeat as evidence that illiberal regimes are not invincible, and it contrasts the resilience of U.S. institutions with the fragility of authoritarian systems. Ho...