Put PBS filmmaker Ken Burns and progressive activist -- oops, I mean journalist -- Christiane Amanpour together and what do you get? Precisely the predictable fear-mongering demonization of conservatives that you have come to expect from the leftist media.

As Newsbusters reported, on CNN International's Amanpour after the last presidential debate, the host interviewed her fellow propagandist about his latest documentary on saving Jews from the Nazis, so of course they immediately made the irrational leap from Nazism to today's political right and its presidential candidate Hitler -- I mean, Donald Trump.

Noting that Trump commented he would question the results of a possible election loss because of the left's penchant for voter fraud, Amanpour asked Burns what he thought of this insult to democracy.

"It's unprecedented," Burns said breathlessly, forgetting that in recent memory his own party challenged the legitimacy of the Bush election against Al Gore. "I don't recognize my country anymore."

We don't either, Ken, thanks to its fundamental transformation at the hands of your party of radical anti-Americans.

"This is so terrifying," he continued:

"I think this is an existential moment for the United States of America. I think this is the greatest threat since the Cuban missile crisis and the Second World War for how we're going to be. And what kind of people we want to be and what kind of constitution we want to adhere to. We've been unprecedented in the world in that we've had 216 years of the smooth transition of power. And [Trump] is implying that no matter what happens, it's not going to be that way. And that's -- that's just unprecedented."

Again, see Bush vs. Gore.

Then Amanpour brought up a Los Angeles Times column by Hillary-supporter Max Boot on the "Nazi echoes in Trump's tweets":

We want to talk obviously about your film, Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War, which is about World War II. But I want to ask you about something that a conservative, a Republican has written in the L.A. Times, about this myth of rigging, the myth of losing that Donald Trump has been putting around. He said "it's very dangerous and reprehensible. He's creating his own version of the stabbed in the back myth. Propagated by German rightists after World War I, who claim that the German army had not really lost that war. It had been betrayed by Jews and Marxists." Is history sort of repeating itself in this victimhood myth?

Again, the Democratic Party's widespread voter fraud is not a myth; it is demonstrable fact. But facts never stopped Christiane Amanpour from pushing her agenda.

BURNS: It is. It's a very effective political tool in the short run. And they are playing -- the Trump campaign is taking a play, their playbook is out of the National Socialist party in Germany. In every regard, the dog whistles of race and immigration. Hitler said let's make Germany great again. I mean, you have all of the simplistic messaging without anything to back it up and certainly no qualifications. That makes it so dangerous.

And the fact that he's been able to promote himself so well. Manipulated media so that he's had three-plus billion dollars of free media over the course of the last year plus is a kind of terrifying thing that there might be something mechanically endemic to all of us that permits this to rise.

"Mechanically endemic"? Burns went on to say that "[r]igging the election is the biggest canard I have ever heard."

Amanpour got around to asking Burns about his film, and "the terrible way the United States and the West behaved to Jews trying to escape Hitler." As Newbusters points out, Burns refers vaguely to the "United States" or the "State Department" --  not "Franklin Roosevelt and the Democrats" -- as anti-Semites:

We had essentially a State Department that was rife with anti-Semites. We had quotas that permitted small numbers of refugees on the eve of the Second World War and during it, that made it impossible for us to be  a mitigating factor in relieving a refugee crisis, that's only slightly greater than the refugee crisis we're having now.

And what we've added to the mix here is a very public and overt racism that says, look, we don't want these kinds of people. And German immigrants in the United States should understand that happened to them. Irish immigrants should understand that had happened to them. Chinese and Japanese immigrants, that happened to them at a different time. And now we're sort of saying because there is a Muslim terrorist somewhere, that we have to completely block the door to all the Muslims. That would be like white people having to take responsibility for the actions of Dylann Roof, who is the young man who assassinated,  murdered the churchgoers in Charleston a year and a half ago. That would be, let's be careful about white people now. That has the same logic.

No, it doesn't. All white people do not have to take responsibility for Roof's actions because white supremacism is so marginalized and impotent that Roof couldn't even find anyone to help him carry out his slaughter. We are not at war with white supremacism. We are at war with Islamic fundamentalism, which is an existential threat to Western civilization and which is supported by an alarming percentage of Muslims worldwide. When Burns asserts offensively that "there is a Muslim terrorist somewhere," he is trying to diminish and whitewash the extent of that threat.

Americans aren't buying your B.S., Burns, which is why Trump has the support he does.