The Washington Post Has Flipped Its Shit, Episode MCLXIII: If Trump Is Not A Rooskie Then He Must Be A Nazi

The argument seems to be: Hitler said that ethnic Germans needed lebensraum (apparently not a term with which the Post expects its readers to be familiar)...so...you could see this as him saying that Germany was overcrowded...Trump said we couldn't keep letting in a gazillion illegals...and one of the things he said, by way of dramatically making the point, was "our country is full"...which...if interpreted in a way he didn't seem to mean it could be construed as the claim that the U.S. is overcrowded....WHICH MAKES HIM LITERALLY HITLER!!!!!!!111

   This is just an embarrassment. 

   And that aside from the fact that, as I understand it, Hitler's lebensraum BS was about acquiring extra land for expansion of the German people--and that was also largely about farm land and food production. But I've never attended to this question specifically, and IANA historian.

   Also, of course, the Nazis didn't want any foreigners; we take in more than any other country. Trump is just insisting that they come in legally. Now, the latest wave is about asylum-seekers, and asking for asylum is legal. However, we know that many of them are lying. Those that are lying share much of the blame here. Furthermore, we know that most of them won't show up for their court dates. It's also relevant that there are a lot of other countries they could have emigrated to--they're fleeing e.g. Honduras, and they're coming here...but their coming here is not integral to their fleeing e.g. Honduras. They could, oh, say, have stopped in Mexico, for example. Or gone southward instead of northward.

   And, as I've been saying for about a decade now--since long before the latest few phases of this crisis: if we'd have taken economic illegal immigration seriously and weren't already looking at 22-29 million illegals in the country, we'd have more flexibility about taking in asylum-seekers.

   But, anyway, to summarize: 

Hitler said something about overcrowding, Trump said something different about overcrowding, ergo Trump = Hitler.

   Do you want Trump 2020?

   Because this is f*cking how you get Trump 2020.

   The blue team just keeps getting loonier and loonier.

   And in this piece of crap article, we also see a return of an argument that seemed to disappear from the left for awhile: white supremacists talk about overpopulation and problems associated with taking in too many immigrants...so anybody who is concerned about overpopulation and taking in too many immigrants must be a white supremacist.

   And: we also get the blatant assertion that the U.S. isn't overpopulated. Which, I grant, is the standard view. But there are legitimate differences of opinion about carrying capacities and whatnot. I've always been concerned about the population, ever since I was a little kid. But, then, hey, maybe I've always been a Nazi and just didn't know it.

   And somehow we get a "Beto" O'Rourk quote about an "infestation"...which seems to have nothing to do with anything.

   And the lie that Trump called all illegal immigrants from the south "animals." Of course he only said that of members of MS-13.

   Wow this whole thing is just repulsive. And, aside from it inherent repulsiveness, it's exactly the kind of thing that, as some have noted, tends to legitimize the extreme right: if anyone who is concerned about these massive waves of illegal immigrants is, via the magic of redefinition, on the far right, then, given that the fears are, in fact, real and rational, now a lot of reasonable people are classified as extreme right...

   Concerns about the S.S. St. Louis incident are legitimate, and we should think carefully about them. But it's hard to do so amid this storm of progressive insanity and TDS.