Elementary Logic For Hysterics

The argument “Everything Hitler did was legal”, while perfectly true, does not logically entail the proposition “Grazing fees are legal, therefore the United States is a Nazi hellhole and some cowboy crook wrapped in a flag can threaten to kill people with his militia posse if he loses in court.” If ever the reductio ad Hitlerum was revealed to be hysterical crapola, it’s when talk-radio-catechized Catholic defenders of this lawless vigilantism trot it out to try to paint a delusional scofflaw–who childishly pretends the US government does not exist–as a patriot and not as the criminal he is.