Jim Hulings of course has the right to broadcast his opinions far and wide. Nobody questions his right to fervently support Donald Trump even if he is too timid or disingenuous to say that he does in as many words.

The real issue is whether he is talking nonsense. Hulings’ argument is that an unholy alliance of troublemakers and criminals is ruining America. They include AOC, George Soros, Bernie Sanders and their “leftist cronies,” Black Lives Matter, the Centers for Disease Control, the liberal media, and everybody else who don’t like Donald Trump. Central to his argument is that something similar happened in Germany in the 1930s, which enabled Hitler and the Nazis to gain power. Whether these American miscreants have already morphed into fascists or are unwittingly preparing the way for fascism in America he leaves unclear. He is completely silent on what he thinks can be done to stop the rot, which makes for a certain pointlessness to his literary efforts.

Hulings’ views are familiar and widespread. So what is news of them doing on the front page of the Butler Eagle? Why didn’t his editor instruct staff writer Alex J. Weidenhof to ask a competent historian if and how America today can be meaningfully compared to the triumph of Nazism? Hulings is an election judge who apparently wants us to think that the upcoming election is rigged everywhere else but is squeaky clean in Harmony, a stance that is open to the charge that the pot is calling the kettle black.

Joe White, Harmony