Here are some interesting election-related quotes below….

1. “We sometimes have the feeling that we are living in the time preceding the election of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.”

2. “I could not help remembering how economic turmoil had conspired with Nazi nationalism and militarism—all intensified by Germany’s defeat in World War I—to send the world reeling into catastrophe… It is not entirely mistaken to contemplate our post-election state with fear and trembling.”

3. “The United States has embarked on a course so deeply reactionary, so negative and mean-spirited, so chauvinistic and self-deceptive that our times may soon rival the McCarthy era.”

4. “Voters who supported him were like the ‘good Germans’ in ‘Hitler’s Germany’.”

5. “The worst nightmares of the American left appear to have come true.”

6. “When you consider that in the climate we’re in—rising violence, the Ku Klux Klan—it is exceedingly frightening.”

7. He is “as unscrupulous and as irresponsible as Hitler. In a sense, he is potentially more dangerous than the German Nazi leader because he has a much more powerful military arsenal at his disposal, including nuclear weapons.”

…. from 1980, via Steve Hayward’s book and Powerline blog post (“The Great Liberal Freakout“).