1. A certain number of people will vote Republican no matter what. This category is least likely to be swayed by arguments of this sort. It would be like me (never having voted for a republican in any election for local or state of national office since being able to vote in 1978) being swayed by a "Bernie is a communist" argument, if I were to choose between Bernie Sanders and Mitt Romney.
2. We lived under Trump for 4 years. It didn't feel like Nazi Germany. Daily life under Trump was not that different from life under Obama or Biden.
3. We've always been told that Republicans are fascists, nazis, etc... The idea is that this time the candidate really is Hitler... But the feeling against Reagan, Bush II, etc... was similar. The average person just responds to the "Republicans are fascist" argument like they do to the "democrats are communist" arguments. It is just viewed as a kind of political hyperbole. (They boy who cried wolf.)
4. People didn't like Hitler because he was Hitler, not because he was the reincarnation of some other bad guy from another era.
5. There's a kind of intellectual laziness here. If one candidate is Hitler, then every one should vote for the non-Hitler candidate, obviously. So you don't have to make a case for this other candidate at all!
It's like being asked to choose between insipid food and poison. Logically, you should choose the insipid food, rather than the poison, but wouldn't you prefer a tasty meal, that also won't kill you?
6. It just seems desperate.
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