Oh yes he did!
Posted on 11/19/2024 7:04:21 AM PST by SJackson
Do any of these hysterics even know what Hitler actually did?
If you thought that leftists were through with likening Donald Trump to Hitler after their insane and hysterical rhetoric contributed mightily to their catastrophic losses in the 2024 election, think again. On Saturday, Rep. James Clyburn (D-Nazi Hunter) dragged out this hoary and stupid canard yet again on Fox News Channel’s “Cavuto Live,” signaling that the Führer is not likely to be allowed to return to the dustbin of history anytime over the coming four years.
Clyburn wants us to know that he has studied history, and that therefore we should take his warning with the utmost seriousness. He told Neil Cavuto that the country had clearly lurched to the right in the recent election, and added: “I hope it’s not going as far right as that which happened in Germany in the 1930s, which, you may remember, I forewarned way back in 2018 that I saw this coming. I’ve studied history all of my life.… And I can tell you what I said back in 2018 on another network is now coming to pass. People chastised me for saying it at that time, but now they are seeing it.”
He did indeed give us the same warning back in 2018, saying back then: “Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany. And he went about the business of discrediting institutions to the point that people bought into [it]. Nobody would have believed it now. But swastikas hung in churches throughout Germany. We had better be very careful.” Maybe Clyburn was “chastised” for saying this because it didn’t make any sense and wasn’t even accurate on its face.
Clyburn demonstrates his ignorance first off by claiming that Hitler was “elected chancellor of Germany.” The Weimar Republic didn’t hold direct elections for chancellor. Modern Germany doesn’t, either. The chancellor of Germany is akin to the British prime minister: he or she is usually the leader of the majority party in the nation’s parliament, the Bundestag, or Reichstag, as it was known in Hitler’s day. In Weimar Germany, the president appointed the chancellor; if no party had a Reichstag majority, he would appoint the representative of the leading party or the leader of a coalition.
In Jan. 1933, when Hitler became chancellor, his National Socialist party was indeed the largest party in the Reichstag, but the largest percentage of the vote it got before Hitler took power was only 37.3%. Hitler was appointed chancellor as the leader of a coalition that was supposed to restrain him, a task at which it signally failed. Hitler then prevailed upon the Reichstag, after the highly suspicious fire in the Reichstag building that he blamed on the Communists, allowing him to expel them from the assembly, to grant him dictatorial powers that were ostensibly only temporary, in light of the national emergency.
Is Trump going to do anything like that? Come on, man! There is not even any mechanism for doing such a thing in the American governmental system, while the Weimar constitutional always contained this poison pill that ultimately led to its destruction. Taking advantage of his new powers, Hitler quickly outlawed all political parties except his own, so that Germany was a one-party state by the time of the sham Reichstag elections of Nov. 1933.
Does Clyburn know any of this? Almost certainly not. And Cavuto, like most Americans, had had enough, asking him: “Are you envisioning another Hitler? Is that what you’re saying?” Clyburn doubled down: “That’s exactly what I’m saying. I said the 1930s in Germany. And, of course, — and we can go to Mussolini in Italy. These things —” At that point, Cavuto said this was hyperbolic. He should have said it was hysterical and quite spectacularly insane. But Clyburn was ready to triple down: “You may think so. I’ll tell you what’s hyperbolic, is asking the Senate to approve all your nominees without any vetting. That’s what’s hyperbolic.”
I’ll tell you what’s hyperbolic, Clyburn: it’s exaggerating your claims to the point of ridiculousness. Look up the word when you get around actually to studying what Hitler did. You’ll find that it has nothing to do with asking the Senate to approve nominees without vetting. You may find that objectionable, although it’s perfectly constitutional, but it’s absolutely nothing like staging a false flag attack in order to justify taking steps toward the criminalization of legitimate opposition. You ought to know all about that, as you and your Democrat colleagues did it for four years over your phony Jan. 6 “insurrection.” If you want some Hitler parallels in the present day, study the “Reichstag Fire” and compare it carefully to Jan. 6. You might find the comparison enlightening.
Calling Trump “Hitler” is now just a Democratic Party loyalty test.
So Trump isn’t a Hitler. Hitler was a Trump wannabe! LOL.
My German mother said Hitler thought he was god. You would never see hitler in a McDonalds apron or garbage man safety vest.
Anyone calling Trump ‘hitler’ needs a mental evaluation. Clyburn lies when he said he studied history.
Anyone who claims to have studied history and says that the Nazi party was a movement of the “right” is a charlatan. Step one should be reading the name of the Nazi party: (translated) National Socialist German Workers Party. If the Leftists would do this simple step, they would realize that they have more in common with the Nazis. How many socialist workers parties can be characterized as right wing?
Expect this from anyone who claimed that words = violence. Not a “threat of violence” but equal to. Same as.
The whole point of this is to normalize the behavior of censors. Make it OK for bullies to control what you say, and then what you think.
This will continue until they are confronted with a slew of “Oh, F@#$ off!” responses. The rebuttal of this crappola has to be personal.
recommend also
Vampire Economy: Doing business under fascism -by Gunter Reimann
Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State Paperback – January 8, 2008
by Götz Aly
They Thought They Were Free is a fantastic book. Everyone should read it in High School.
Yeah, Sieg Heil, Jimmy. We won, deal with it.
1988: "BUSH-1 IS HITLER!!!"
1996: "DOLE IS HITLER!!!"
2000: "BUSH-2 IS HITLER!!!"
2008: "MCCAIN IS HITLER!!!"
2012: "ROMNEY IS HITLER!!!"
2016: "TRUMP IS HITLER!!!"
2020: "TRUMP IS STILL HITLER!!!"
2021: "GIULIANI IS HITLER!!!"
2022: "PUTIN IS HITLER!!!"
2023: "MUSK IS HITLER!!!"
2024: "TRUMP IS LITERALLY HITLER!!!"
2025: "GAETZ IS HITLER!!!"
etc., Etc., ETC...
Most pay Clyburn no mind as he has no mind.
His IQ is approximated to be that of a goldfish. Everything he says is nonsensical babble.
Yes. And calling them clowns is too kind.
Much like pecker puss Pelosi, Clyburn is a 84 year old relic clinging to power. Democrats should do a Biden on him as well.
Clyburn represents a particular constituency which benefits greatly from the welfare social justice state. It is a minority white rural agricultural economy district. Blacks in this region were oppressed by Jim Crow laws after the Civil War and under segregation lacked good eduction, social mobility, and access to economic progress. The eradication of segregation, the infusion of federal and state money into education, and the construction of factories in rural areas during the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s provided some upward mobility and access to capital for enterprising minorities. However the globalist trade policies of the 1990’s and early 2000’s resulted in the gutting of economic opportunity as the factories moved offshore taking with them the middle class paychecks of the workers and the service firms which supported the manufacturing infrastructure.
Clyburn uses the traditional Democrat playbook of aggravating racial grievances extending back to slavery while bringing home federal money resulting in dependency on the federal government and on Clyburn as the face of the federal government in the district. Racial politics discourage outside private investment so the constituents remain mired in poverty and dependence on federal welfare programs. By continuously electing representatives such as Clyburn, rural southern blacks are trapped in a self perpetuating world of dependency and subsistence living. Clyburn truly is the plantation master in South Carolina’s 6th Congressional District.
Given Clyburn’s stranglehold on the voters, he has seniority in the Democrat party which equates to raw power. He is adept at playing the race card and using it in the national media. He can continue using the “Hitler” theme for the party at a time many of the white progressive politicians, looking at shift in black, Hispanic, and blue collar white voters to the Republicans, have determined they must tone down their extreme anti Trump rhetoric.
How about you stick with making sure men can go in women’s showers and abortion until birth.
I will bet $100 that the average Freeper knows more about "history" than that ignorant jackass.
OMG - this Robert Spencer person 'gets' what's happening... sees the larger picture - the forest through the trees. Thanks for posting Jackson
Hitler was a socialist just like modern American demonrats.
Hahahahaha
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