Inglorious Comparisons

“Amnesty Report Compares Trends That Led to Hitler’s Rise to Power to Today’s Divisive Politics” (The Washington Post)

“Calling Trump a Nazi Is Its Own Kind of Holocaust Denial” (Spiked)

“Should We Even Go There? Historians on Comparing Fascism to Trumpism” (The Guardian)

“’Trump Could Be the Next Hitler!’ Says the Increasingly Fascist Left” (Breitbart)

“Trump as Nero: Europe Must Defend Itself Against a Dangerous President” (Spiegel Online)

“When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig” (The New Yorker)

“This is What Ancient Greeks Would Have Called Donald Trump” (Time)

“Trump and the 1930s: Donald Trump is Not a Fascist” (The Economist)

“Mexican President Fox: Donald Trump Reminds Me of Hitler” (CNN)

“Donald Trump’s Secret? Channeling Andrew Jackson” (The New York Times)

“Bill Gates: Trump Is Like JFK” (Market Watch)

“The Wild Inauguration of Andrew Jackson, Trump’s Populist Predecessor” (The New York Times)

“Theresa May More Angela Merkel Than Margaret Thatcher?” (The Indian Express)

“Why Angela Merkel Cannot Escape Margaret Thatcher’s Legacy” (The Telegraph)

“Germany’s Modest Mutti Merkel Is no Iron Lady Thatcher” (CNN)

“The ‘Fascist’ Left in America: After Trump’s Call for a Muslim Moratorium the Name-Calling Began” (The Washington Times)

“Leftist Anarchy, Not Trumpian Fascism, Is the Real Threat to Democracy” (The American Spectator)

“Drawing Parallels Between the Rise of Trump and Hitler” (Slate)

“The Weimar Analogy: Comparing Trump’s America to Fascist Germany Only Fuels Elites’ Antidemocratic Fantasies” (Jacobin)

“John Heartfield: The Original Meme King” (Ozy Media)

“Sure, Call Trump a Nazi. Just Make Sure You Know What You’re Talking About” (The Washington Post)

“Putin the Terrible: Understanding Russia’s New Tsar” (Huffington Post)

“How Putin Is Inspired by History” (BBC News)

“Trump Is Talking Like a Tin-Pot Dictator” (Haaretz)

“It May Only Take 3.5% of the Population to Topple A Dictator” (The Guardian)

“Unsettling Echoes: Joseph Goebbels, Sean Spicer, Steve Bannon” (History Workshop)

“#Milosexual and the Aesthetics of Fascism” (Boston Review)

“Trump vs. Hitler. ‘Das 20. Jahrhundert fällt uns jetzt auf den Kopf’” (Welt)

“20 Lessons from the 20th Century on How to Survive in Trump’s America” (In These Times)

“Archbishop of Canterbury Suggests Brexit in ‘Fascist Tradition’” (The Guardian)

“We Other Kakanians: Literature in the Aftermath of Empire” (Los Angeles Review of Books)

“Trump Is a Lot Like the LBJ Liberals Still Idolize” (The National Review)

“Watergate Veterans: Just Like Nixon, Donald Trump Seems to Think He Is Above the Law” (Democracy Now)

“First He Was Compared to Hitler and Now Sir Bernard Ingham Says Trump is Like Mussolini” (The Daily Mail)

“What Germans Really Think About Those Hitler-Trump Comparisons” (The Washington Post)

“The Bias That Trump (Like Reagan) Uses to Fool America” (New York Magazine)

“Trump Is Like Turkey’s Authoritarian President, Says Opposition Leader” (Think Progress)

“Alicbiades’ Trump Card: The Political Masquerades of Masculinity” (Eidolon)

“If Fascism Arrived Tomorrow, Would We Recognise It?” (The Guardian)

“Trump Repeats Truman? Not Quite” (The New York Times)

“Trump Is Neck and Neck with the Worst Presidents: Could He Make Even Warren G. Harding Look Good?” (Roll Call)

“How Trump Is Like Late Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner” (New Jersey Online)

“Trump, Like Nixon, Is Incapable of Change” (The Washington Post)

“Stop Comparing Trump to Foreign Leaders. He’s a Distinctly American Phenomenon” (The Los Angeles Times)

“Michael Flynn: Trump Is Like the Chariot Driver in Ben Hur” (The Washington Post)

“To Understand Trump, We Should Look to the Tyrants of Ancient Rome” (The Guardian)

“Trump Is Like Castro, Tennessee Democrat Says” (USA Today)

“Is Donald Trump an American Hugo Chávez?” (The New York Times)

“Boris Johnson: The EU Wants a Superstate, Just as Hitler Did” (The Telegraph)

“Cameron: Gove Has ‘Lost It’ in Comparing EU Economists to Nazis” (The Guardian)

“Tories Divided by Boris Johnson’s EU-Hitler Comparison” (The Guardian)

“German Politicians Criticize Boris Johnson for EU-Hitler Comments” (The Guardian)

“How Trump Is Like Reagan… and How He Is Not” (Our Future)

“Trump Is Like Hitler” (Atlanta Jewish Times)

“It’s Not The 1930s. But Donald Trump Should Scare Us All the Same” (The Guardian)

“Trump’s Populism Isn’t Fascism. So What Is It?” (The Washington Post)

“The Ankara Shooting Isn’t 1914. And Historical Analogies Can Often Lead Us Astray” (The Washington Post)

“From Vietnam to Nazi Germany, Why Do Politicians Continue to Use Faulty Historical Analogy?” (The Independent)

“The Past’s First Lesson: Beware of False Historical Analogies” (World Politics Review)

“Should We Even Go There? Historians on Comparing Fascism to Trumpism” (The Guardian)

“Make Comparisons Great Again” (Eidolon)