Comparing anyone to Hitler is generally an intellectually lazy and opportunistic cheap shot. It's kind of like ascribing every event you don't like to the power of Satan. Lazy thinking...but it's guaranteed to strike visceral emotions in certain people, and that is usually the intent of the speaker when they raise the name "Hitler". They are actually trying to do pretty much the same thing Hitler tried to do in his speeches to the German people when he raised the twin spectres of "Jews and Communists"...scare people, and inflame their emotions, thus getting them to back him in some ill-considered and reckless action. Be wary of such rhetoric.

- LH