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very interesting and insightful.
One thing that bothered me was how Hewitt was trying to corner GG into a concession by forcing the utterly inapplicable example of Hitler (isn't there a saying that goes "whoever mentions Hitler in a debate immediately loses it?").
I think these historical comparisons are futile and irrelevant. Moreover, there's no way to know when would have been the right time to "crush Hitler like a bug." The whole notion of retrospectively "crushing Hitler like a bug" is a populist slogan that comes very, very cheap. It's much harder to do the right thing in the present.
In my view the correct answer is not after Anschluss, not after the invasion of Poland -- it is simply "I don't know." Nobody knows. I'm sure Hewitt thinks he does, however.
Hugh Hewitt has shown that although he presumes to learn from history, he actually doesn't, while Glenn Greenwald, who carefully acknowledges history's complex uniqueness, in fact does.
