{"id":6518,"date":"2016-01-11T15:37:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6518"},"modified":"2016-01-11T15:37:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:37:56","slug":"6518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/01\/11\/6518\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Tribune features Frank Hornstein in commentary on<br \/>political rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\" alt=\"Minneapolis Star Tribune - logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>The Star Tribune recently published an editorial column that featured an interview with Minneapolis DFL <strong>Rep. Frank Hornstein<\/strong>, a senior fellow in\u00a0Augsburg College&#8217;s Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship. The column discusses the widespread use of Hitler and Nazi references in U.S. political rhetoric. The topic has both personal and professional significance for Hornstein; his grandparents were killed by the Nazis and he intends to author a book about the Holocaust&#8217;s impact on modern political discourse.<\/p>\n<p>In regard to frequent comparisons between political opponents and Hitler, the article quotes Hornstein as saying, &#8220;\u201cIf everyone is Hitler, who is Hitler really? When you go right to a Hitler analogy, you\u2019ve already lost the argument. You\u2019ve cheapened the debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"reader-title\">Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/forget-nazi-comparisons-find-other-ways-to-reject-hateful-speech\/363963111\/\">Forget Nazi comparisons \u2014 find other ways to reject hateful speech<\/a> on the Star Tribune site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star Tribune recently published an editorial column that featured an interview with Minneapolis DFL Rep. Frank Hornstein, a senior fellow in\u00a0Augsburg College&#8217;s Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship. The column discusses the widespread use of Hitler and Nazi references in U.S. political rhetoric. The topic has both personal and professional significance for Hornstein; his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[3740,3455,3687,2692],"class_list":["post-6518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-staff","tag-rep-frank-hornstein","tag-sabo-center-for-democracy-and-citizenship","tag-staff","tag-star-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6522,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518\/revisions\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}