Let the Trump-Hitler comparisons please come to a blessed end.
There’s a curious trend among Democrats that when Republicans presidents are in power, they’re likened to Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and Nazism in general. Democrats did it with George W. Bush, and they’ve done it countless times with President Trump. And, of course, that misplaced critique extends to supporters of the President as well. (RELATED: Georgia Teacher Compares Student’s Trump Shirt to Nazi Swastika.)
But as boy-who-cried-wolf Democrats scream “HITLER!” at Trump, it looks like the Trump Administration is actually doing what its predecessor didn’t: deporting actual Nazi war criminals from our shores.
The Administration announced that Jakiw Palij, a 95-year-old Nazi collaborator and who is the last of his kind living in the U.S., was arrested at his home in Queens, New York, and promptly deported to Germany.
The White House released the following statement on the deportation:
BREAKING: White House releases a press statement on ICE deporting a former Nazi SS labor camp guard back to Germany. pic.twitter.com/mU9cHXCAXU
— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) August 21, 2018
Here’s the most important part of the statement: “Despite a court ordering his deportation in 2004, past administrations were unsuccessful in removing Palij.”
Let’s consider that carefully: Palij was ordered to be deported nearly 15 years ago. Both Bush and Obama failed at carrying out this court order. Trump got it done. Funny how that works, eh?
So even though it was court ordered in 2005 no one had the guts to actually do anything about it till @realDonaldTrump stepped up. This is becoming a pattern.
Nazi labor camp guard arrested by ICE, deported to Germany: Authorities – ABC News – via @ABC https://t.co/4aIBbEdLQ0
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 21, 2018
Good Morning America had video coverage as well:
.@ABC EXCLUSIVE: The last Nazi collaborator deported — ABC News was there as ICE agents wheeled 95 year old Jakiw Palij from his New York home: https://t.co/OmHJYmyw5V@tarapalmeri reports. pic.twitter.com/2SDW3tzgvY
— Good Morning America (@GMA) August 21, 2018
This is becoming all too typical. Trump defies the simplistic stereotype liberals paint him with by actually enforcing the law. This time, it’s the trite analogy that Trump is imposing Nazi order on the United States.
The next person who alludes to Trump being Hitler should instantly be stripped of all intellectual credibility. But, given that most liberal media commentators have no credibility, to begin with, I don’t have much hope they’ll adjust their narrative.
