Doomednow
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It was not an analogy. It wasn't even a simile. It was a metaphor and that makes a whole lot of difference to the spin put on it by the chattering classes, like the DT and news Ltd
A metaphor would be something like .... Iggy Plop is always complaining about Gallop. He whines like an old Holden with a f**ked diff...
That's a simile, actually.
And it is an analogy, he used the example of passion in terrorists to make the point that passion can be misdirected. He did not say it is only misdirected in terrorists and therefore the storm supporter base's misdirected passion makes them terrorists.