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Rep. Clyburn draws parallel between US today and Germany before Nazis
The Hill ^ | 11/06/22 5:10 PM ET | BY BRAD DRESS

Posted on 11/06/2022 4:09:01 PM PST by RandFan

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) on Sunday said he sees parallels between the current threats to U.S. democracy and the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy in the 1930s.

Clyburn told “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream that election denialism and calling the press the enemy “causes those kinds of deterioration in democracy.”

“I taught history and I’m telling you what I see here are parallels to what the history was in this world back in the 1930s in Germany, in Italy,” Clyburn said. “The facts are very clear.”

Last week, Clyburn, the third highest-ranking Democrat in the country, made similar comments to Fox News Digital when discussing the attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in his own home.

“The country is on track to repeat what happened in Germany when it was the greatest democracy going, when it elected a chancellor that then co-opted the media,” Clyburn said in that interview. “This past president called the press the enemy of the people. That is a bunch of crap. And that is what’s going on in this country.”

Nearly 60 percent of registered voters see the mainstream media as a threat to democracy.

President Biden and Democrats have sought to make threats to democracy a central theme in the midterms, pointing to former President Trump and his allies spreading false claims about the 2020 election and refusing to commit to accept this year’s results.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
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1 posted on 11/06/2022 4:09:01 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

I feel sorry for his students. He’s nuts


2 posted on 11/06/2022 4:10:14 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: RandFan

Seems to be a talking point they’ve coordinated.

Other idiots have been saying it.


3 posted on 11/06/2022 4:10:41 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: RandFan

Conservative philosophy: “I want government to be small. I want to leave people alone. I want you to go and live your life as you see fit, in freedom.”

Democrat: “See? Those guys are just like the Nazis!!!!”


4 posted on 11/06/2022 4:11:04 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: RandFan

The Democrat Party ARE The National Socialist, we’ve arrived.


5 posted on 11/06/2022 4:12:49 PM PST by JJBookman (National Socialist = Nazis )
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To: Nifster

No- he’s actually very correct:

Demokrats want forced vaccinations and medical mandates- like the nazis in the 1930s

Demokrats want to censor free speech- like the nazis in the 1930s

DemoKrats want to jail political enemies- like the nazis in the 1930’s

DemoKrats have politicized all Federal investigative agencies- like the nazi’s in the 1930s

DemoKrats are using state run media to spread their propaganda- like the nazi’s in the 1930s

Give clyburn credit for being correct- for once


6 posted on 11/06/2022 4:14:06 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: RandFan

Just for a start, the Nazis never won anything near a majority in the Reichstag. This renders the rest of your argument invalid, lying, historically-illiterate Communist filth.


7 posted on 11/06/2022 4:17:04 PM PST by quikstrike98
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To: JJBookman

Hey Democrats, if everything is so bad, then GTFO of my country. I’m beyond sick and tired of your constant pissing, moaning, and complaining.

I’m more than happy to give you swift kick in the ass as you leave!


8 posted on 11/06/2022 4:17:05 PM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: RandFan

Demonrats = Nazis. PERIOD!


9 posted on 11/06/2022 4:17:35 PM PST by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: RandFan

I’m not sure what they are going for with this, but surely it is not their intent to present Weimar Germany as their model. Then again, inflation, tranny stuff, communists everywhere, it does seem right up their alley.


10 posted on 11/06/2022 4:25:42 PM PST by cdcdawg (Hoes mad! LOL! )
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To: RandFan

The Democrat party is where wokeism got it’s birth.

It came straight from the University campuses, that are
run by something like 90% Democrats (Communists) to 10%
Republicans, most of which are RINOs.

The PC culture is nothing compared to Wokeism.

The Wokesters will just shout over you. They’d sooner ice
pick your eyes out rather than debate. You can stand
up to PC, but when it gets to the level of what the Wolk
folks have in our nation, it’s impossible.

This is what NAZI Germany devolved to. It’s what the
U. S. is devolving to, and the Deplorables have nothing
to do with it.

This guy can’t even recognize what his own side has
turned into.


11 posted on 11/06/2022 4:26:13 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: RandFan

The Democrats are rather like the Soviets ... or the Nazis. Both were consummate evil and the only reason Commie scum are spoken of without utter derision at every point is because their useful idiots are also scum who still love socialism.


12 posted on 11/06/2022 4:31:03 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: RandFan

Clyburn would see ‘racism’ in the number, size or real meat content of Chicken McNuggets.


13 posted on 11/06/2022 4:34:38 PM PST by lee martell
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To: RandFan

I agree with him. There is a parallel and this is why we MUST stop BIDEN & Son ASAP!


14 posted on 11/06/2022 4:38:47 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (When Ashli Babbitt’s video-taped murderer Michael Byrd is indicted, I’ll start paying attention.)
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15 posted on 11/06/2022 4:39:12 PM PST by lizma2
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To: RandFan

I submit that Clyburn is a wannabee Robert Mugabe of Rhodesia who said ““Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy.”

or maybe Idi Amin of Uganda.


16 posted on 11/06/2022 4:39:29 PM PST by elpadre (W )
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To: RandFan

Race Baiting Poverty Pimps and the Perpetually Professionally Aggrieved


17 posted on 11/06/2022 4:40:45 PM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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““The country is on track to repeat what happened in Germany when it was the greatest democracy going, when it elected a chancellor that then co-opted the media,”

Germany didn’t elect a chancellor. The chancellor is appointed. Hitler was appointed Chancellor by the president of Germany, moron.

And he banned opposition press. Didn’t Biden collude with Facebook and Twitter to censor conservatives?


18 posted on 11/06/2022 4:41:56 PM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: RandFan

You and your ilk ARE the Nazis, Jimbo.


19 posted on 11/06/2022 4:43:43 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: RandFan

““I taught history”

““The country is on track to repeat what happened in Germany when it was the greatest democracy going, when it elected a chancellor”

Hitler wasn’t elected a chancellor. He was appointed Chancellor.

I weep for your students.


20 posted on 11/06/2022 4:44:27 PM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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