Our President Trump's wounds self-inflicted, the continuing controversy over whether he's treating

the Gold Star families properly, plus questions about Niger and the worst anti-Trump

op-ed in The New York Times I have ever seen. We'll talk about all of it. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The

Ben Shapiro Show.

So I do have to say this is Charles Blow op-ed in the New York Times is not just one of the worst op-eds about Trump I've ever seen. It's one of the worst written op-eds about Trump I've ever seen.

I want to go through it at length because I think that it reveals something about where the

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Right?

Trump isn't Hitler.

So I clicked on that because I was like, wow, somebody figured it out.

And then it says Trump isn't Hitler, but he lies, but the lying, right?

That's the actual title of it.

So he isn't like Hitler, but he's kind of like him except for the mustache. That's pretty much where Charles Blow over at the New York Times is going. Now, what's astonishing about Charles Blow is not just that he's a bad thinker. The New York Times op-ed page, as Andrew Claven is fond of saying, a former newspaper. Their op-ed page, as we have criticized in the last week, is full of people who are shoddy thinkers. The real problem with the New York Times op-ed page with Charles Blow is that Charles Blow is a shoddy writer. I mean, he's just a bad writer. I'm going to read you some of the stuff from this column, and you're going to see, this is stuff that would not pass you through freshman seminar at a public college. I mean, this is really not high-level stuff. So, Charles Blow begins,

it is a commonly accepted rule among those who are in the business of argument, especially

online, that he or she, who invokes Adolf Hitler, either in oratory or essays, automatically

forfeits the argument. But don't worry, he's going to do it anyway. He says the reference is deemed

far too extreme, too explosive, too far beyond rational correlation. No matter how bad a present-day politician, not one of them has charted or is charting a course to exterminate millions of innocent people as an act of ethnic cleansing. Hitler stands alone in this regard, but, but there are strategies that Hitler used to secure power and rise, things that allowed his murderous

reign that can teach us about political theory and practice.

And very reasonable and sage comparisons can be drawn between Hitler's strategies and those

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