“Ahnold” used the wrong historical analogy. The Capitol incident was more akin to the Reichstag fire of 1933, which the Nazis conveniently blamed on the Communists and used as an excuse to begin enacting laws that eventually turned the moribund Weimar Republic into the totalitarian Third Reich.
Exactly. Perhaps a "convenient" memory lapse? Ahnold's never been conservative. He married a Kennedy and ended up as an eco-freak liberal governor.