Dwight, my friend, Larry constantly uses assorted variations of Godwin's law, aka "the law of Nazi analogies".
I have expanded it to be the "law of boogeyman analogies".
This is a tactic used by people who cannot make a valid point. so they invoke some Boogeyman to try to incite in others the same fears that they themselves have.
Some of us enjoy making sport of them. I know, I know, it's rather cruel. Kind of like poking sticks at the monkeys in the zoo until they throw poo at you, and then laughing. But it is still fun, albeit in a rather sophomoric way.
(The smirk means that I hope that wasn't too subtle)
