Lately we’re being told that it’s either (a) inappropriate or (b) untrue to refer to Bush’s illegitimate junta as Nazi, neo-Nazi or neofascist. Because, you know, you’re not necessarily a Nazi just because you seize power like one, take advantage of a national Reichstag Fire-like tragedy like one, build concentration and death camps like one, start unprovoked wars like one, Red-bait your liberal opponents like one or create a national security apparatus that behaves like something a Nazi would create and even has a Nazi-sounding name. All of those people who see a little Adolf in the not-so-bright eyes of America’s homeland-grown despot are just imagining things.

Me, I’m catching it for this week’s cartoon for daring to suggest that, well–you know.

Of course, there are differences. Hitler, for example, was legally elected. And he had a plan–not one that I like, but a plan–for the period after the war.

I’ll be happy to stop comparing Bush to Hitler when he stops acting like him.