Following closely in the footsteps of President Trump — who on Thursday night released a controversial "closing" ad that denounces Democrats for being soft on illegal immigration — today the mainstream media has released its own “closing argument” ad.
Their argument?
Trump is Hitler.
It’s admittedly not the freshest talking point as members of the media have been likening Trump to Hitler since the president's inauguration day. But it’s a message they firmly believe in, as the ad attests.
To take but a few examples. On CNN, anchor Chris Cuomo said Trump's attacks on the "fake news" are just the same as what Hitler said: "The media who questions him, they are the real enemy of the people. And that phrase is from Stalin and Hitler."
During a recent segment on the madman who opened fire at a Pittsburgh synagogue, MSNBC's Steve Schmidt said the blame falls on Trump and his Nazi-like propaganda: "The same type of rhetoric, the same type of propaganda that you would have seen in Germany in 1938, the dehumanization, turning people into infested vermin. What Trump is doing is stoking and inciting, for the purposes of political power, the worst amongst us to take action in his name."
Omnipresent CNN/MSNBC personality, Max Boot, commented recently of Trump calling himself a "nationalist": "When you think of nationalist you think of people like Franco and Mussolini and Hitler and Pinochet."
Commenting on Trump's border policy, CNN contributor Michael Hayden posted an image of Auschwitz on his Twitter and wrote: "Other governments have separated mothers and children."
During Trump's inaugural, the Hitler comparisons were flying fast and furious. Chris Matthews called Trump's speech "Hitlerian." and his colleague Rachel Maddow said Trump’s remarks echoed an earlier pro-Hitler movement: "There was an America First Committee that formed in this country, hundreds of thousands of people in this country, some of the richest businessmen in the country who were part of it, they were formed to keep us out of World War II. They were infiltrated by the Nazis, many of them are anti-Semitic, part of why they weren’t alarmed by Hitler’s rise in Germany."
And on and on and on. Overall we counted more than 30 Hitler comparisons from the broadcast media in just his first two years in office.
How will it play? Time will tell; the midterm elections are just four days away.