The speaker, a comedian, insists these insults were a joke - which is true. But given that the premise of the joke is that Latinos are subhuman and un-American, the fact that it was offered in jest is immaterial.
But when his defenders deny that Trump is a Nazi or a fascist, they are not merely assuring us that his election won't lead to mass-scale death factories and global war killing tens of millions of people.
National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry... writes... '20th-century fascists hated parliamentary democracy; they believed in an all-consuming state and had contempt for bourgeois life.'
Trump, again, is not Hitler. But... his defenders... are attempting to put to rest the broader and far more serious charge that Trump poses an existential risk to American democracy.
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