I'm getting a little tired of the totalitarian metaphors and comparisons that have cropped up in the wake of last week's election. It's really the sign of a lazy mind and makes you question the analytical abilities of the speaker. Recently, some have compared the admittedly gross and bigoted Steve Bannon to Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's chief of propaganda. That's silly and disrespectful to the Jews murdered in the Holocaust. I've read Bannon's stuff from Breitbart, and while I find him to be repellent, nothing he's written comes close to calling for the extermination of entire races of people. I wrote a column about the man and his anti-Catholic rhetoric last summer, so I know he is offensive and sometimes vicious in his rhetorical stylings. Frankly, I'd like it if he weren't in Trump's inner circle. But again, the comparison to Goebbels is as shallow as they come.