A reasonable rule is that once you begin making an argument ad Hitlerum —comparing some malevolent politician to Hitler or some malignant movement to the Nazis, or declaring a brutal (but non-eliminationist) war a genocide comparable to the Holocaust—you have lost the plot. The facile but extreme analogy is the first resort of the unimaginative alarmist. To this we should now add the argument ad Orbánum , namely, the view that the Trump administration is just like that of the creeping, well-