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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.
The comparison of the Reichstag Fire to Jan 6 is dead-on accurate. There are videos of antifa type changing clothes into Trump gear before entering the Capitol. There are videos of antifa entering an empty hallway in the building with Confederate flags. There are videos of Capitol police moving barriers and inviting demonstrators into the building. There are videos of DC Metro police firing rubber bullets and tear gas into a crowd of demonstrators that were not even engaged with them. This ultimately resulted in the fight in the tunnels under the portico. Once you mix all these folks up inside the building, how do you tell who’s who? So they ended up arresting hundreds of people who just walked through the building like tourists and shot down Ashli Babbit like a dog. And then they lied and lied and lied. Hopefully the Republicans will get to the bottom of it all. It is essential to show the American people what happened that day and hold people responsible.
You stated: “It is essential to show the American people what happened that day and hold people responsible.”
I know Trump said his revenge would be the success America attains in his administration. But this isn’t about revenge, it is about justice. Justice for all those innocent people arrested, jailed without trial and still languishing there, and for those intimidated into pleading guilty and informing the American Citizens of the crime the left committed in their quest to foil Trump.
Just spit balling, but wouldn’t some of these people deserve reparations, especially the family of Ashli Babbit.
With all of these ignorant illiterates calling everyone and their dog Hitler, it’s amazing that this country has survived with all of these Hitlers running around..
Hey Moron Mao was far bigger Mass Murderer then Hitler ever was so Stop Your Mindless Babbling
Mao and Stalin had more time than Hitler did.
What Clyburn said was unforgivably disgusting to the point that it borders on being overtly anti-Semitic. Either he is colossally ignorant about Hiller or he is colossally stupid or just has absolutely no regard for the truth.
There is nothing Donald Trump has done that is anti-Semitic, unlike the Democratic Party, that supports Iran getting nuclear weapons, withholds weapons and munitions to Israel during a war, attempting to build a pier in Gaza to permit weapons to be smuggled in, supporting anti-Semitic riots on US college campuses and permitting Democratic Party officials to be openly anti-Semitic.
There is nothing that Donald Trump has done that is totalitarian, unlike the Democratic Party that has colluded with internet companies to censor speech, use the DOJ and the FBI to harass and intimidate political opponents and citizens who disagreed with their agenda, turning the media and educational institutions into instruments of propaganda and supporting political violence, like the riots of 2020 and the anti-Semitic riots on college campuses.
Donald Trump, has been the best President for Israel and the Jews in US history, moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan and issuing an executive order extending Title VI to combating anti-Semitism. He is nothing like Hitler and nothing like the Democrats.
Trump is not Hitler.
Clyburn IS Idi Amin!
The Congressional Black Caucus eats Jewish babies.
Hitler squashed dissent just like the British Liebour party is currently doing.
Hitler was a socialist just like the Liebour party.
Hitler wanted white aryians to be the elites and the Liebour party wants coloured ones.
If you reverse the parties and look at Jan 6th like the Reichstag fire and the placement of pride flags everywhere then you can see how close we came to dodging the bullet
“2008: The Rise of Black Supremacy!”
“If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” The sentence that started it all.
You can’t fire one; evict one; honk at one; bump into one; scold one; break up with one; must hire one; look at one; and DARE say that the countless Lives shot and murdered every week in so many cities… DON’T MATTER!
The Congressional BLACK Caucus is a Black Supremacist group! Same with Hispanics! Just wondering, is there a White Caucus?
Hitler was far LEFT. Socialists don’t like to be in his room but they are.
Yes, he was.
But Libtards continue to spread the canard that he belonged to the “Far Right.”
Yes. But Leftists can redefine words and terms.
So “far-right” means – anyone who disagrees with a Leftist.
Communists call everyone who disagree with them a fascist. Fascists call everyone who disagrees with them a communist. They see no other possibility. Thoughtful people who are neither communist or fascist look at both and see virtually no difference. The communists and fascists are bullies on opposite sides of the same ideological dead-end street arguing over who will control the cul de sac.
Considering how much the Left hates Jews, calling Trump “Hitler” would be as close to a compliment as anything the Left could say about him. These are the same people who support Hamas and Hezbollah which call for the annihilation of Israel’s Jews and (without any sense of shame or even irony) scream “GENOCIDE!!!!!!”
….fair point. • °
“I hope it’s not going as far right as that which happened in Germany,” says “history student” Clyburn. The most scurrilous lie the left ever told is that Hitler was right wing. Hitler and the Nazis were never anything other than socialists. They called themselves National Socialists as opposed to the International socialists, the communists. Leftists try and kill each other all the time. That doesn’t make either side “right wing”.
My high school teachers claimed that it was a “curious” phenomenon that the political spectrum curved around in a circle and joined at the ends with Nazism and Communism meeting in some kind of Möbius loop.
The left is still getting away with it.
Interesting. My history teacher told us exactly the same thing! He just didn’t use the mobius strip thing. I wonder how long it has been since they stopped teaching this in school?
Cavuto barely pushed back. A true, professional journalist would have demanded the rabid Clyburn give specifics that T is like Hitler. He is incompetent and does not belong on Fox News. Remember Clyburn is the fool who helped impose on us the worst president by far in history, when he pushed b over the line in the SC primary after he had done poorly in the earlier primaries.. Fox must fire Cavuto. Earlier this year he sat meekly , allowing the egregious Mayorkas to recycle his many lies about the flood of illegal immigration he supervised, whc resulted directly in the murder of Laken Riley and gang rape and murder of 12-yr-old Jocelyn Nungary, of Rachel Morin and thousands more. If only this liar could be tried as an accessory to the horrible crimes he facilitated, along with b, Harris, Schumer, Pelosi and every Dem who blocked securing our borders, who promoted open borders..
Yep, Clara Bell on two legs. He has no respect for people that are struggling as long as he is not. Instead of doing something when they had an opportunity to he and his ilk voted and time and again to put all of America deeper in debt and worked to insure they will never have a middle class.
They keep saying that Hitler was on the Right; he was not. He was on the left – he was a (national) socialist. And the only people acting like Hitler these days are those on the Left.
They keep saying, “Trump is going to do this! Trump is going to do that!”, without a shred of actual evidence; while all the while THEY are the ones doing those things.
Note: Cavuto is a big anti-Semite. So whatever is on his show reflects Cavuto himself.
Secondly is or isn’t Cyburn the guy who thought Guam would tip over? I think it was a different demented Democrat but all Democrats rant in the same stupid way. .
Hank Johnson (D-Ga) was the science follower.
Actually, those man-made Chinese “islands” which they contrive so as to claim (falsely) wider sovereignty into resource rich areas of the ocean DO float.
In theory, they could be made to tip over.
It would be lovely to behold if one or two did. ~
I didn’t know that. I figured they just dumped a bunch of rocks and dirt on a shallow spot or underwater mount.
NSDAP….AKA “NAZI”. for short National SOCIALIST German worker’s party. Socialist. The truth of the NAZI origin is in their actual name. Democrats insist the NAZIS are wrong about their own origin and politics.
Good point about how he got the history of how Hitler seized power wrong.