2003 : 1933 ?

TalkLeft: Germany in the 1930’s: The Easy Slide into Fascism:

The parallels are not exact, of course; America in 2003 and Germany seventy ears earlier are not the same, and Bush certainly is not Adolf Hitler. But there are enough disquieting similarities in the two periods at least to see what we can learn – cautionary tales, as it were – and then figure out what to do with our knowledge.