Going back to the 2016 presidential election, Democrats have tried to paint Donald Trump as the second coming of Hitler, a fascist, and a dictator, unleashing a whole host of outrageous descriptors.
We have now seen multiple instances in which the individuals carrying out political violence in this country have used or referred to these terms when describing their target, the latest instance being the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Finally, a couple of liberal lawmakers are getting the message that their party needs to tone down the rhetoric. But sadly, both are Democrats who will not be in office much longer.
You would be hard-pressed to find Democrats these days who have not called, hinted, or compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
For instance, has-been former Vice President Al Gore, when discussing the MAGA movement and Trump, stated, “I understand very well why it is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich to any other movement. It was uniquely evil, full stop. I get it. But there are important lessons from the history of that emergent evil.”
When Bill Maher announced that he had a sit-down with Trump, Seinfeld creator Larry David wrote an op-ed featuring an imaginary script of how it went, writing, “Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard -- the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning.” Maher responded, “I think the minute you play the Hitler card, you’ve lost the argument.”
I can list a dozen House members and senators who have likened Trump to Hitler, not to mention failed vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz, who compared ICE agents to the Gestapo of Nazi Germany.
After Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) doubled down on her own Hitler talk, even justifying it, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) made a plea with his fellow Democrats to just knock it off.
He stated, "I think you just don’t ever, ever compare anyone to Hitler and those kinds of extreme things. Now, look what happened to Charlie Kirk. I mean, you know, the man was shot.”
Fetterman continued, “Now, we have to turn the temperature down. We can’t compare people to these kinds of figures in history. And this is not an autocrat. This is a product of a democratic election."
Given the manner in which Fetterman has already broken with the party on many key issues, it is hard to imagine him not being primaried if he decides to run for re-election. I just don’t see him winning a second term if the party has anything to do with it.
The latest to have his come-to-Jesus moment is Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), who will not be running for re-election for his seat from Illinois.
While on CNN this week, co-host Kate Bolduan asked the senator if he thought Democrats had “gone too far” in the rhetoric they are using to attack Trump, and Durbin responded, “Absolutely. This notion that we’re going to characterize MAGA as Nazis, for example, on the other side, that the Republicans would characterize the Democrats as a party of murder or evil, the outrage is coming from both sides and is unacceptable in both instances.”
“So, yes, both sides can learn the lessons here. And Mr. Kirk’s -- the loss of Mr. Kirk is a good reason to do it.”
You can say things like that when you are not running for office again; it’s just a shame the rest of the Democratic Party's leadership structure is denying that they had any role in inspiring these madmen.
