John Avlon

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343 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 16 Mar

John Avlon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And we should understand this is a horseshoe theory.
It's the far left and the far right.
But what's happening on the far right is from young party leaders and media figures who are going crazy.
going there when it comes to Hitler.
And when, you know, I did a thing about the January 6th attack, there were five self-avowed Nazis on that attack.
Remember that, remember the Godwin's law?
Like not that long ago, right?
Which if you have an online internet debate, the first person to quote Hitler automatically loses.
And the argument is don't call your opponents Hitler.
Hitler is Hitler.
Like don't call your opponents Nazis.
Don't do that.
It's cheap, it's lazy, it's insulting.
But what happens when your political opponents are comparing themselves to Hitler?
You've got to be careful, but you've got to learn from history, right?
That happened in history.
But my point is, what do you do when they start comparing themselves to Hitler?
That's a whole different place.
And I'm afraid that's the echoes we're getting.
The head of the Young Republicans in New York State says, I love Hitler.
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