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This is a fight I’m willing to have – first, the stage setter, from Byron York at the Washington Examiner:

On “Meet the Press” this morning, host David Gregory played a brief clip of Limbaugh’s monologue — a sentence in which Limbaugh said, “There are far more similarities between Nancy Pelosi and Adolf Hitler than between these people showing up at town halls to protest a Hitler-like policy” — and then asked guest David Brooks to comment. “I hadn’t seen the Rush Limbaugh thing,” Brooks said. “That is insane. What he’s saying is insane.”

I asked Limbaugh for a reaction, and here is his answer:

Everyone seems to ignore that Pelosi started this, saying town hall participants were showing up with swastikas, etc. That’s calling them Nazis, as Dick Durbin referred to our Gitmo interrogators from the Senate floor. I’ve been listening to the left compare George W. Bush to Hitler for eight years. I’ve been listening to Democrats and the left compare conservatism to Nazis my whole career. This time I responded. In kind, by comparing the radical left policies of the Nazis to today’s radical left leadership of the Democrat Party. I’m not surprised they don’t like it.

I, too, am sick of this ignorant accusation that conservatism comes within a country mile of Nazism. The truth is that liberalism, feminism, socialism, communism, fascism, Nazism and the like all stem from the same revolt against Christianity – from the same desire to have done with Judeo-Christian civilization because, in the views of the varied proponents of these beliefs, it has all been wrong. Some aspect or other of our civilization displeases and the baby is to be thrown out with the bath water. While there might be differences of means, the fact remains that all of them want our religious convictions ripped out by the roots so that a new humanity can be ushered in.

Here is something for all to ponder – a quote:

…these dying nationalities, the Bohemians, Carinthians, Dalmations, etc., had tried to profit by the universal confusion … in order to restore their political status quo ante of A.D. 800. The history of a thousand years ought to have shown them that such a retrogression was impossible; that if all the territory east of the Elbe and Saale had at one time been occupied by kindred Slavonians, this fact merely proved the historical tendency, and at the same time the physical and intellectual power of the German nation to subdue, absorb and assimilate its ancient eastern neighbors; that this tendency of absorption on the part of the Germans had always been, and still was, one of the mightiest means by which the civilization of Western Europe had been spread in the east of that continent; that it could only cease whenever the process of Germanization had reached the frontier of large, compact, unbroken nations, capable of an independent national life, such as the Hungarians and in some degree the Poles; and that therefore the natural and inevitable fate of these dying nations was to allow this process of dissolution and absorption by their stronger neighbors to complete itself.

Sounds a bit Hitlerian, doesn’t it? Could be right out of Mein Kampf – but, its not: its Karl Marx, writing in the wake of the abortive 1848 revolutions in Europe. He’s writing off the entirely of the slavic population of Europe outside Russia and basically saying that the Germans were a natural master race from whom these dying peoples should gratefully accept instruction and absorption. This is the Jewish founder of modern communism saying that the Germans are a master race! There is zero surprise that Hitler was able to cobble to together his program – it was a grab bag of Marxism, nationalism, fascism, Darwinism and occultism…and each and every last aspect of it was in opposition to what we conservative hold dear.

If a conservative really wishes to be an extremist, he’d start calling for the revival of the Holy Roman Empire, or some such. Conservatism may make many mistakes, but it cannot have a love of Nazism – its not possible; it is like trying mix to oil and water, or Christian humility with prideful arrogance. The thing just cannot be done.

Part of the problem is, quite simply, that the left has run the debate – and has classed religion and patriotism as aspects of fascism. It was said that fascism would come to America carrying a cross and wrapped in a flag. This is, for us patriots and believers, just an absurdly stupid statement to make. Its like saying that greed will come to America carrying a Salvation Army bucket and wrapped in clothing for the poor. The flag will always remind us of Washington and Lincoln and our glorious Founders; the cross will always remind us of our Savior who suffered so that we might live. People carrying the cross – wrapped in a flag or not – will make errors; but to imagine that a million Christians would never think for a moment about Christ’s injunction to love our neighbors as ourselves or that patriots will never remember, “give me liberty, or give me death” is, well, to be willfully blind.

Let us have this out – let us find out who is sending thugs to intimidate voters; thugs to beat up protesters; telling lies about the opposition. Let us see who is whom and then let the people judge which side is more akin to our fascist and Nazi enemies of old – with Limbaugh, I say that it is Nancy Pelosi, and those like her.