re: Is there nothing more lazy in political discourse than calling someone a Nazi?..

Why would anyone argue that the Nazis weren’t socialist in nature? It’s nonsensical. Just because they were simultaneously fascists and nationalists doesn’t change this fact. Why must American progressives be so rigidly infantile? They called themselves socialists. They had socialist policies. All the socialists of the era offered support and were overwhelmingly pro Nazi until Stalin told them the Nazis were the enemy. Statism. Corporatism. Nationalism . Fascism. Socialism. The Nazis were all those things. What they weren’t, is Western democrats with representative government that valued Individual Liberty. Modern American Libertarianism would be the exact opposites with Conservatives close behind. Progressives would be much closer philosophically. Hank knows this, it just makes him ornery.