Congressman Jim Clyburn went on Fox News and stood behind his comments pointing out the historic “parallels” he sees between the Nazi party in the 1930s and the cult of Donald Trump now.
On Sunday, Clyburn expanded his comments. “I’ve talked to many Jews, there are many Jews in my congressional district… and they know that this is the stuff that caused those kinds of deteriorations in democracy,” he said. “This is not anything about how difficult it was. I talk about slavery and how difficult it was. But to discuss the facts of what’s going on here, election deniers setting up procedures by which local committees… can overturn the results of the election.
“If people want to deny it, that’s fine, but the facts are very clear,” Clyburn continued. “I’ve studied history all of my life. 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.” “Are voters… to infer from what you’re saying that if they don’t vote for Democrats in this election that they are somehow supporting something akin to the rise of Hitler?” Bream asked.
But Clyburn was not painting all Republicans with the same brush. He clarified that he was specifically talking about people who support candidates who lie about the legitimacy of elections. “No,” Clyburn said. “If they don’t vote against election deniers. If they don’t vote against liars, people who lie, know full well they’re lying, we all know they’re lying. [The 2020 election] was the cleanest election in the history of the country.
“So if they’re lying, they’re denying, they’re drying to delete, they’re trying to nullify votes,” the congressman concluded, “vote against that foolishness.”
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