Actor, author, lawyer and libertarian Ben Stein just confirmed — via Godwin’s Law — that the conversation about the alleged liberal takeover of America has gone on for a very long time.
[Godwin’s Law, also known as Godwin’s rule of Hitler analogies, “is a statement maintaining that if any online discussion continues long enough, someone will almost certainly compare someone else to Hitler. The law is thought to apply to conversations about any conceivable topic.” It “also includes calling someone a Nazi” — Stein complies.
News of a draconian takeover by the left may surprise the leftists, who have seen the Supreme Court and state legislatures drastically curtail reproductive rights and protect the right to purchase an AR-15, but the narrative endures anyway — even with a GOP-dominated House and SCOTUS.
Stein is currently trending on social media for a rant that compares the current living conditions in the U.S. — after Donald Trump‘s indictment — to those in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Stein says he woke up with the feeling that he was “in Paris in 1940.”
Ben Stein is 100% correct. The Biden DOJ is a modern-day Gestapo 👇https://t.co/ZbGT02mEJU
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) June 15, 2023
What’s perhaps most interesting about Stein’s rant is his admission that “we don’t know if the charges are phony or not” — the discovery of which is the point of a trial, something to which Trump is entitled.
“We only know that the political power in this country now belongs to the leftists,” Stein says, “and they want to shut up Mr. Trump.”
[Note: The alleged leftist takeover, such as it is, has been shown to be frightening to many. Such unlikely bedfellows as Stein, Kevin McCarthy, Kid Rock, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ginni Thomas, and sundry Evangelical preachers have united to decry the perceived state of affairs, shooting up cans of Bud Light and comparing Merrick Garland to Joseph Goebbels.]
Stein, whose curmudgeonly takes on culture have earned him both a following and tremendous enmity, ends his customarily monotone rant with a salute, perhaps a bad-on-the-optics move for someone who just alluded to Hitler.
Of course, Godwin’s Law dictates that Stein’s Hitler allusion was inevitable, purely due to the longevity and persistence of the MAGA-led narrative about conservatives suffering ideological persecution at the hands of the “woke” left. A Nazi comparison was a certitude — and Stein delivers.
Lawyer and author Mike Godwin formulated his famous law in 1990 because he “wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler to think a bit harder about the Holocaust.” Godwin may experience some disappointment today.
