from “The Producers”

Article in The Intercept by James Risen , 10/25/24

Headline:  “Mainstream Media Was Afraid to Compare Trump to Hitler. Now the Press Has No Excuse.”

Subhead:  “Statements by John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, have made it nearly impossible for the media to avoid Hitler comparisons.”

“For decades, reporters have been taught not to make Hitler analogies in stories about American politics. Adolf Hitler was so uniquely evil that any comparison of an American politician with the Nazi leader was considered unfair and out of bounds.

“And then came Donald Trump.

“Trump is the first modern American political figure to force journalists to reassess whether Hitler references meet their editorial standards.

“In my columns and other articles for The Intercept, I have drawn attention to the increasingly obvious parallels between Hitler and Trump and between the Nazi movement and the MAGA cult. Yet most mainstream journalists have stubbornly stuck to the de facto ban on Hitler analogies and have refused to compare the two.”

“. . . But in explosive new statements, Trump’s own former White House chief of staff has made it virtually impossible for the press to justify a continued ban on Trump/Hitler references..”

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/25/trump-hitler-john-kelly-medi/