by escalating it to nazi germany you desensitize the reader. i discussed that at great length further to understand. it's the "chicken little" and "little boy who cried wolf" effect. rhetorical escalation as an exclamation mark only serves to raise the volume required next time around. hitler's literal opposition were shrieking that he planned to end democracy, and that's exactly what he did. but that shrieking just made it easier to do. the real payload was the democracy in the first place, planted decades later, and made even worse with suffrage.

I hear you but my choice of example was motivated by the fact that most folks' historical frame of reference to anything of importance is WW2. It's an era of familiarity and that one is able to properly fact check in real time, especially as a truth seeker. The problems with the example that you highlighted are indeed real, but in this instance my use of this example was so narrow that it makes the point without setting off any landmines