Here's some free advice: If you want to be taken seriously while making a point about anything, don't go all Godwin's Law and use Hitler to make your case. Well, if you're specifically discussing World War II, or Nazis, or Hitler himself, then fine, maybe playing the Hitler card is fair game. But otherwise, it only defeats your argument.
Home Depot's billionaire co-founder Ken Langone apparently did not get that memo, as he "showed no hesitancy in invoking the Nazis" while whining to Politico about Washington's newfound interest in income inequality and economic populism.
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