On the June 27 edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, graphic novelist, cartoonist and former Saturday Night Live writer Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks, likened America's Tea Party to the Nazis who came to power in Germany in the 1920s and 30s:
“This [the rise of the Tea Party] has happened before in history. In Germany in the ’20s and ’30s, there was this right-wing reactionary element that was so terrified of anarchy and communism, that they said, ‘You know what? There’s a group of street thugs that are real ideologues, and they’re willing to take it and they’re willing to bloody themselves. And you know, once they get into power we can control them.’ And that was why they backed them. ‘We can control this.’ And what they didn’t realize...What is true is that ideologues are only loyal to ideology.”