Welcome to the podcast. This is episode 394. My name is Douglas Wilson, and I'm glad you're here.

So what I want to talk about in this opening slot is what might be called the revenge of Godwin's law.

The revenge of Godwin's law. Godwin's law was rolled out in early in Internet history, and the law said in an online dispute,

the first side to make a Nazi comparison loses. The first side to call the other side a Nazi

loses. Now, a number of things have happened since that,

and Godwin's law entered into common discourse. Oh, yeah, you know, who called the other one a

Nazi first? But things got complicated because we've had a resurgence of people who now call themselves Nazis,

or Nazi sympathizers, or Hitler fanboys, or Hitler was the last great Christian prince.

So we've got people who self-identify as Nazis. I'm a Nazi. What's your problem with that?

That's one thing. And then you've got people who hate and loathe and despise the idea of Nazis,

and they accuse the other side of being such, while they themselves are Nazis. And they don't have, it's just a, it's just a word that has negative, profoundly negative implications.

And since any rock is good enough to throw at those bad guys over there, I'm going to throw the Nazi rock at them.

One time many years ago, Idaho was, our congressional district here in Idaho was represented by a sweet Christian lady named Helen Chenoweth.

And she was going to be giving a press conference at the U of I campus.

And I wanted to hear her at the press conference, so I stopped by.

And as is often the case with a political entourage, she was running late.

And so there were a bunch of people there standing around waiting for the congressman.

And she insisted incidentally, she said, she refused the title Congresswoman.

She said, I'm a congressman.

The congressman is the name of the office. I'm a congressman.

Not that she was claiming to be a man. She was just holding the office of a congressman.

So Helen Chenowith was running late. And there were protesters there. A bunch of people protesting our good congressmen's stand on various things. And there was a young man across the way

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