GOP lawmaker reassures constituents that Trump is 'small potatoes compared to Nazi Germany'

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7. Cheer up! Trump isn't as bad as Hitler!

People nowadays so easily lose their sense of perspective. As I told my neighbor, after her son was fatally stabbed by a lunatic: this is really nowhere near as bad as Okinawa. When my coworker's daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren died in a fiery crash on the interstate, I comforted her by pointing out that the Oklahoma City bombing claimed many more lives. When a tornado wiped out an entire town a few years ago, I wrote a nice letter to the local newspaper, explaining that Mississippi River floods had killed far more people, but they refused to print it for some reason. After the Sandy Hook shootings, I offered to visit the area to contrast the small number of lives lost to the horrors of the siege of Stalingrad, but there was not much interest. I once when to a talk on Auschwitz and tried to contrast the Nazi concentration camps with the devastation of the meteor sixty million years ago that nearly wiped out life on earth -- and you wouldn't believe how nasty some people became!