This sick – as excerpted from Devan Cole’s article at cnn.com:
Two powerful House Democrats have invoked Adolf Hitler’s actions in Germany and the treatment of Jews during World War I and in the 1920s to warn against the direction the US is moving in, with both saying Donald Trump’s presidency presents an unprecedented threat to democracy.
House Whip James Clyburn’s comments came in a Tuesday interview with NBC News in which he noted that he previously cited the rise of Hitler while discussing America’s political climate, according to the outlet.
“Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany. And he went about the business of discrediting institutions to the point that people bought into” it,” the South Carolina congressman said, according to NBC. “Nobody would have believed it now. But swastikas hung in churches throughout Germany. We had better be very careful.”
Clyburn’s colleague, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, made his comments at a Tuesday night town hall in New York in which he compared Trump’s rhetoric toward immigrants to propaganda against Jews.
“You’ve heard the President and the administration say that immigrants are thieves, that they bring in drugs, that they’re responsible for lots of crime, that they’re — a crisis at our border, they’re bringing in drugs and crime,” said Nadler, who represents New York.
He continued: “This is the same type of propaganda that we heard in the 1920s and World War I against Jews. ‘Jews are Bolsheviks. Jews are thieves. Jews are violent’ — that was the propaganda. And, we were that against the Irish early. Now, we’re hearing it against this generation’s immigrants — and it’s just as false now.”
That sick enough for you?
The facts that:
President Trump has a decades-long history of strong support for Israel,
that he moved our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,
that he, just yesterday, announced his position that the Golan Heights is sovereign Israeli territory,
that he has Jews throughout his administration (here’s a list for you),
that he always has had Jewish friends and colleagues,
that his daughter and her family are observant ppppp0Jews,
etc.?
None of this counts, of course. Not if you hate Trump enough, or if you are dumb enough to just accept the word of these two party hacks at face value.
Nadler’s comments are particularly odious, given that he is co-sponsoring a resolution condemning the boycott/divest/sanction (BDS) movement against Israel – a resolution he knows damn well that Trump will wholeheatedly support, but many of his Democrat colleagues – very possibly including Clyburn – will vote against.
But no worries for Nadler or Clyburn on their sick comments. Based on many years of experience, they know most mainstream media will look the other way. Business as usual.
As per usual, having a “D” after your name covers a multitude of sins.
