Demeaning the Donald

The Imperial Haystack, who has compared a free-trade area that lets in refugees to a Nazi super-state, and who has squealed about punishment beatings "in the manner of some World War Two movie" because not everyone agrees that somebody who leaves a club should receive the benefits of full membership, has gone all politically correct when it comes to comparing a racist demagogue with a racist demagogue. The Haystack finds it jolly distasteful that anyone should demean with references to the Hitler régime an administration which banned Muslims on Holocaust Memorial Day and then forgot to mention the Jews.

The Haystack is, of course, quite right to state that one should not make comparisons between Tin-pot Tessie's soul-mate and Churchill's great contemporary. Even Hitler's worst enemies (i.e. most people with a civilised bone in their body) admit that he had actual personal charm and served his country bravely in battle. Charm is in the eye of the beholder, so it would be futile to argue the Imperial Haystack's apparent sentimental regard for tribble-topped tangerine torture fans and climate change deniers with a penchant for pussy-grabbing and a coathanger salesman's attitude to abortion rights. Nevertheless, the non-alternative fact remains that when the Great War came Adolf Hitler did not have bad feet.