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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsClyburn Compares GOP Bowing To Trump To Nazi Germany
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/clyburn-compares-gop-bowing-to-trump-to-nazi-nazi-germanyClyburn Compares GOP Bowing To Trump To Nazi Germany
The Democratic Congressman, who gave Joe Biden a boost in the primaries, says hes trying to sound the alarm.
By Eric Lutz
March 13, 2020
In a new interview airing Sunday, South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburnone of the most powerful Democrats on Capitol Hilllikened Republicans under Donald Trump to Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler. I used to wonder: How did the people of Germany allow Hitler to exist? the House Majority Whip said in the Axios on HBO interview. But with each passing day, Im beginning to understand how. And thats why Im trying to sound the alarm.
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Hitler comparisons tend to be notoriously hyperbolic. But Trumps nationalism, policies, and embrace of authoritarian leaders have invited such analogies, including from Clyburn in the past. Republicans efforts to protect Trump at all costsand creepy dear leader-style treatment from supportive TV hostshave resembled how an autocrat wields power.
That has dramatically raised the stakes for this years election, which has been framed as more than a partisan fight, but a struggle for the soul of the country. Our very democracy is at stake in this election, Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden said after notching several more primary wins this week, including in Michigan. With Donald Trump as president, our core values, our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that has made America America, is truly at stake. Clyburn has helped to dramatically shift the trajectory of the election, endorsing Biden ahead of the primary in South Carolina and reviving a campaign that had appeared to be foundering. That decision was personalhe and Biden are close friendsbut it was also calculated. The influential South Carolina representative had appeared concerned that progressive Bernie Sanders, who led the Democratic primary after the first three contests, would be unable to beat Trump and allow Republicans to prevail in down-ballot races. He has said to me the future of the country is at stake, and if we lose to Donald Trump, it would be devastating for generations of African-Americans to come, Representative Cedric Richmond, a friend and ally of Clyburn, told Politico ahead of the endorsement. I know thats what hes thinking about when making this important decision. When he eventually endorsed Biden, he invoked the need for voters to reject Trumps vision for the country. This campaign, this year, is about the goodness of America, he said in South Carolina in February. And our candidate is a real good man.
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Clyburn Compares GOP Bowing To Trump To Nazi Germany (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2020
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Trump isn't Hitler, he isn't a nazi....he is a modern day American fascist though
Thomas Hurt
Mar 2020
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)1. Trump isn't Hitler, he isn't a nazi....he is a modern day American fascist though
Skittles
(153,298 posts)2. Trump is a Mussulini wannabe
he is fucking PATHETIC