>I think he means a "kinder, gentler" form of Stalin
OK, I guess it will be hard to beat Stalin... But the fact is that, as a foreigner, I am not on top of all the US-specific news. Is the government starting to control more aspects of daily life than it used to?
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)