Following a tragic weekend of political violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left three dead,you may be tempted to say the white supremacist demonstrators who fomented the violence are Nazis. Mike Godwin, an attorney and author, coined something called Godwin’s law in 1990, when internet discussion boards were first proliferating. Godwin’s law famously posits,“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1.