"Reductio ad Hitlerum" - would history's second most prolific mass murderer have felt at home now?

In an immensely enjoyable SF thriller, Time After Time,  H.G. Wells uses his Time Machine to pursue Jack the Ripper to late 1970s San Francisco, where licentiousness and violence abound - indeed, are positively encouraged. When Wells (played by Malcolm McDowell) tells Jack (played by David Warner) that they must return to their own time because they don't belong here, the serial killer replies, "On the contrary, Herbert. I belong here completely and utterly. I'm home." (The relevant clip is available here, about 2'30" in.)

I know dragging Hitler into a blog is often a sign of desperation – but please bear with me, because I’m convinced there are a number of  developments in Europe, America and the Middle East of which, had Hitler managed to locate a working Time Machine in his bunker in 1945, he would have approved.

For instance, anti-Semitism is once more all the rage. Certainly, it now tends to masquerade as anti-Zionism or as a deeply compassionate response to the sufferings of Palestinians - but, whichever way you look at it, it basically results in hating Jews.

Free market economics and capitalism are increasingly under attack from left-wing politicians and revolutionaries, and the classic liberal economic philosophy which made America and the British Empire so successful is an apologetic shadow of its former self. Germany’s fiercely dirigiste 19th Century socialist philosophies (of which National Socialism was just one outcrop) have essentially won - a mere twenty years after we'd persuaded ourselves that the fall of the Berlin Wall meant they'd lost.

The EU has created a united Europe, in which national identities are being vigorously erased at the behest of unelected tyrants, symbolised by a single currency which is essentially the Deutschmark in all but name.

Germany is once more the most powerful country in the region, with Pétainist France acting as a vassal state (Monsieur Hollande's pettish little rebellion will soon fizzle out), and with Britain’s influence dwindling by the day.

The Soviet Empire has disappeared, and, while Russia, thanks to its stockpile of nuclear weapons, continues to promote evil through the United Nations, it really doesn’t matter that much any more.

Obviously, Hitler wouldn’t have approved of the number of immigrants to be found in Europe – but might have been amused that many of them share his disdain for democracy and that their ubiquity is as much his fault as anyone else’s. Because Nazism was based on the concept of racial purity, Western democracies are seemingly incapable of exercising any form of judgment when it comes to who they allow in – to draw much of a distinction between Swiss businessmen, French doctors and Australian dentists on the one hand and Romanian gypsies, Albanian sex traffickers and Somali criminals on the other would, in the eyes of our media-politico class, be tantamount to endorsing the Holocaust.

Further afield, I doubt that the USA would have allowed itself to become a country where non-Hispanic whites form a minority of the population (as was revealed last week), were it not for a combination of liberal guilt over its history of slavery and racial segration, and its role as a beacon of freedom to the world. Without the Holocaust, it’s inconceivable that the federal government would be doing its best to stop states from preventing Mexicans flooding across its Southern border or trying to get rid of illegal immigrants once they've made it into the country, or that its various agencies and its liberal judges would be leading the gadarene rush to multiculturalism – a philosophy that rests on the assumption that White Europeans should feel thoroughly ashamed of themselves in perpetuitity, for everything, and that the glories produced by 2000 years of Christian civilisation are as nothing set against the cultural heights represented by traditional native woodcarving or clitoral mutilation or stoning adulterers to death.

And, of course, Hitler would have been pleased to discover that Fascism based on race or religion is on the rise in many parts of the old Soviet Empire and in the Middle East, where Jews, Christians and homosexuals are routinely murdered or – if they’re lucky – exiled, and where Asian guest workers are treated like untermensch. He'd also have thoroughly approved of Islamist attitudes to women and gays. 

And then there's the fight against smoking and the celebration of paganism and the whole  Green movement - I bet Hitler would have swallowed the Global Warming fantasy in one gulp.

I very much doubt if Hitler would have felt totally at home in our era - but he'd have found a lot to approve of, and might have been pleased to know how much of it was due to his direct or indirect influence.