Huckabee, the Holocaust and the degradation of political discourse
Like a child caught in a misdeed, hoping that repeating a transparent denial will make the accusation go away, presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee has gone on TV to double- and triple-down on his charge that President Obama's Iran deal will "take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven."
On Sunday, Huckabee defended his disgusting allusion to the Holocaust on CBS' "Face the Nation." He's also done so on CNN and even apparently issued a fundraising appeal based on it. Perhaps Huckabee, the Republican former governor of Arkansas, thinks that standing firm in the face of widespread condemnation will establish him as a man who meant what he said and said what he meant, one hundred percent.
It won't. It will establish Huckabee as a man who will say anything to get attention, and as a man who has no conception of what the Holocaust means.
There's nothing new about this, unfortunately. Politicians, mostly Republicans, have been evoking Nazi Germany to attack Obama's policies, chiefly the Affordable Care Act, for years. (cf. Ted Cruz.)
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-huckabee-the-holocaust-20150803-column.html
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