" In 1951, the political philosopher Leo Strauss coined the term reductio ad Hitlerum to describe the often misleading comparison of an opponent’s views or behavior to those of Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party. The reductio ad Hitlerum, applied to Nasser, became a trope of British and French political language in the summer of 1956. "

― Alex von Tunzelmann , Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace