Several governments, including the United States, have already announced sanctions against Austria because of Haider's anti-immigrant politics and controversial remarks about the Third Reich. He reminds people of Hitler.
Communists still participate, without international indignation, in European coalitions.
Today the term is ubiquitous, and several countries have actually made it a crime to doubt that the Holocaust occurred. It can happen again at any time, regardless of circumstances, defying normal laws of causality, without such preconditions as a Hitler, a world war, a Versailles Treaty, and economic catastrophe. Moreover, everyone is guilty, not just Hitler and the Nazis. The Holocaust has entered the realm of science fiction. In novels and movies like The Boys from Brazil and Marathon Man, new little Hitlers can be cloned, or a handful of octogenarian Nazis hiding in South America can launch the whole thing all over again.