@john @evan the most recent comparison of people to Nazis i've seen in the past 24 hours was a news item about an Israeli prison cracking down on "expressions of joy" at the release of some Palestinian prisoners in the recent hostage exchange, where Itamar Ben-Gvir was being quoted as saying something roughly like ~we must not allow these monsters any happiness, nothing, these animals, these Nazis~

so yes it's an attempt to find common ground, but sometimes only in the sense of throwing dirt and hoping it sticks and hoping the person you're talking to doesn't care who threw it