Her opponent is a very progressive Democrat. He’s far to the left of the overwhelming majority of Americans. And he’s black. But he disagrees with Omar on the minutiae of their leftism, so he’s “a literal Nazi.”
Everybody is a literal Nazi if they disagree on absolutely anything with whichever leftist is currently in charge.
Somehow I doubt that this comment will generate as much outrage as JD Vance’s admittedly gauche “childless cat ladies.”
So if we are all Nazis now and according to these to be trusted politicians, can we start doing Nazi things like oh, going out and jailing traitorous politicians. Removing the media and journalists on general principal, and running out the commies by bayonet point. Asking for a friend.
Asking permission doesn’t sound very Nazi.
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At least AIPAC failed on this one, so that’s always a win.
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It’s like saying that I failed at the Olympics when I never tried to participate.
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A little research shows that this derives from a remark made by a New York restaurant magnate who foolishly said “we need [to support] … Christian Neo Nazis (like Ukraine)” to fight off the leftist-Islamist alliance (here represented by Ilhan Omar).
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I wonder if anybody would be doing much research if Trump called a black dude “a literal Nazi.”
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The most vicious fighting tends to be between people who are almost indistinguishable from each other to outsiders, such as politicians with a common constituency. On the other hand, people who are totally different can get on fairly well.
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Right wing influencers encouraged their followers to vote against her in an open primary. She is not saying the Democrats who disagree with her slightly are nazis. She’s saying that her opponent welcomed the opportunistic support of people who oppose both of them ideologically to defeat her, including Nazis. And I do not know if he actually welcomed such support; this is an accusation on her part.
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Encouraging people to vote against something is perfectly legal and a normal part of the democratic process. It doesn’t make anybody a Nazi.
You could have googled all this and spared me the need to explain trivial things.
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I agree that this is a normal part of the democratic process. I was clarifying her point, not supporting it. You wrote that she accused her primary opponent of being a literal nazi because of small disagreements. She didn’t. She was saying there were Nazis among the right wing factions voting against her. My personal opinion is that she is complaining about a campaign which was difficult, and campaigns are supposed to be difficult.
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Yes, in campaign catfighting, it’s important to phrase it to preserve plausible deniability.
Meanwhile, still waiting on some candidate, ANY candidate, to lay out a plan for making housing affordable to median-income Americans, reducing inflation so that we’re not paying 30% more for groceries every two years while our incomes aren’t going up, trustbusting the medical/insurance industrial complex so that we’re not putting… what is it now, a third? of our GDP into freaking medical bureaucracy that doesn’t make anyone healthier, breaking up Blackrock, Vanguard, and other predatory “investing” firms, closing the border and stopping the influx of synthetic meth and opiates, making enforcement of misdemeanors great again (so we can get the damn zombies out of our neighborhoods and into rehab where they belong) or basically any other thing that would benefit normal working people.
But yeah, hey, obviously the most important thing going on in politics is high school prank photos, congresswomen in swimsuits, gross couch jokes, and who called whom a nazi today (with plausible deniability).
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