re: #12 Sergey Romanov

I think it was not out of place when such comparisons were made in regard to, say, Ahmadinejad. I also think it’s apt to describe the current Russia as Weimar Russia. Not meaning that there will necessary be an ultranationalist power with bloody consequences, but to denote that there is such a serious possibility if the current regime crumbles.

That seems to me, by definition, to be unsupportably subjective. Obviously, there’s more validity to saying that Ahmadinegad is more on the road to Nazism than Barack Obama - but still, some objective system of criteria, you open up the door to a Glenn Beck when you start leveling the charge against others.

Why not just call Ahmadinegad a theocratic despot, and call a Nazi-saluting rightwinger a Nazi?