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Keller @ Large: Moulton Comparing Trump To Hitler Is Ignorant

BOSTON (CBS) - North Shore Congressman Seth Moulton seems like a nice guy.

He's young, good-looking, and the product of an admirable record of military service. His victory over Congressman John Tierney in 2014 was a breath of fresh air.

But Wednesday night he improperly compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, and he ought to be called out for it.

At a Boston Globe forum, Moulton said "people should read the history of how Germany elected Hitler…and just try to understand the analogy" [with Trump]. As evidence, he cited a news account from the early 1930s suggesting Hitler's anti-Semitism was just for show, not really indicative of his true feelings.

I think it's the congressman who needs to read up on his history.

Hitler's public hatred and scapegoating of Jews and Catholics dates back to the end of World War I, many years before his election.

Trump has said many foolish things over the years and in this campaign, but nothing comparable to Hitler's record.

And no one really familiar with what Nazism was and what Hitler did – no one who has actually visited a concentration camp – would draw the analogy Moulton did to Trump or any other major U.S. political figure, no matter how distasteful their rhetoric might be.

Hitler rallied the German people behind systematic genocide unparalleled in world history for its depravity. To casually equate it with Trump is ignorant and insulting.

A breath of foul air, you might say.

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