It's the kind of intemperate remark you expect in the wilder reaches of social media, where
Godwin's Law - the inevitability of someone bringing up Hitler in an online debate - is alive and well.
On a lighter note, if the media team of the ruling party had spent more time on Google search they might have come across
Godwin's law and perhaps might have refrained from invoking the Hitler defence.
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Godwin's Law (proposed by attorney Mike Godwin) stipulates
However, the debate soon succumbed to
Godwin's law, as Alan Sugar posted an image of Jeremy Corbyn sitting next to Hitler in an open carriage.
Instead, what it put me in mind of was
Godwin's law - the theory that all online discussions eventually invoke Adolf Hitler - and for which, in this case, one may substitute Trump.
| TIME for a quick refresher in the internet rule known as
Godwin's Law, which serves to dissuade people from comparing anything they don't like to Hitler or the Nazis.
Godwin's Law states the longer an online conversation grows, the greater the chances of someone mentioning Hitler becomes.
In 1990 an American lawyer called Mike Godwin produced a maxim that is now contained in the Oxford English Dictionary, appearing as
Godwin's Law. This states that "as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1".