In an excerpt from Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America, available now on Beast Books, John Avlon reports on how the radical right have increasingly likened the president to a genocidal dictator.
The first known Obama-Hitler comparison occurred in February 2008, when Fox News radio host Tom Sullivan offered on-air side-by-side comparisons of Obama’s speech at the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson dinner and a Hitler speech.
