American political rhetoric often abounds with ill-advised allusions to Nazi Germany. Fascism is forever descending on America, etc., etc. Donald Trump’s tenure in Oval Office has been marked by a conspicuous flowering of efforts to metaphorically couple his policies with those preferred, if not pursued, by Adolf Hitler. The last 72 hours have, however, given way to an especially toxic bloom of such analogies.

For example, aerial images of deportation targets temporarily housed at a Texas detention facility ahead of their hearings and removal orders led many to compare the facility to a Nazi “concentration camp.” And this sort........

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