{"id":1725930,"date":"2022-11-06T19:33:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1725930"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:33:58","slug":"clyburn-compares-america-to-1930s-germany-in-latest-example-of-democrats-alarmist-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clyburn-compares-america-to-1930s-germany-in-latest-example-of-democrats-alarmist-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Clyburn Compares America To 1930\u2019s Germany In Latest Example Of Democrats\u2019 Alarmist Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclyburn-compares-america-to-1930s-germany-in-latest-example-of-democrats-alarmist-rhetoric%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1725930&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democratic House Majority Whip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/james-clyburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Clyburn<\/a> (D-SC) compared the state of American democracy to Weimar Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Fox News Friday, Clyburn reacted to the violent attack on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/paul-pelosi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Pelosi<\/a> last week. Clyburn said that the country was following the path of the Weimar Republic in 1930s Germany, the fall of which led to the rise of an authoritarian leader, Adolf Hitler. Clyburn\u2019s comments are the latest example of Democrats and media figures\u2019 escalating, alarmist rhetoric about \u201cthreats to democracy\u201d posed by Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what happens in a country that follows what happened in Germany in the early 30s,\u201d Clyburn told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-majority-whip-track-repeat-nazi-germany-downplays-inflation-ahead-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>. \u201cI said this in 2018, and caught a lot of hell from a lot of people for having said it. But it was true then, and it\u2019s true now: this country is on track to repeat what happened in Germany when it was the greatest democracy going, when it elected a chancellor who then co-opted the media. This past president called the press the enemy of the people. That is a bunch of crap. \u2026 And that is what\u2019s going on in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clyburn defended rhetoric from President Joe Biden about the \u201cthreats to democracy\u201d posed by so-called \u201cMAGA Republicans,\u201d claiming that while Republicans targeted a person, Biden targeted a philosophy. \u201cHe talked about a philosophy that is taking place in this country,\u201d said Clyburn. \u201cHe didn\u2019t attribute it to one person that anyone could go and target, bust in their window, and beat \u2019em in the head with a hammer. He never demonized any individual. He talked about a philosophy, and I would say the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clyburn then talked about the 2022 midterms, saying that voters have a right to vote in their own self-interest, but that must not be limited to inflation, but threats to democracy as well. \u201cThe question is, are we going to have a society that everyone can participate in? Or are we going to have an autocracy that\u2019s run by one person?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clyburn is not the only prominent Democrat to compare Republicans, especially Trump-aligned or so-called \u201cMAGA Republicans,\u201d to Nazi Germany in recent weeks. Former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton compared a Trump rally in Ohio to a Nazi rally because his supporters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hillary-clinton-likens-trump-supporters-to-nazis-because-they-pointed-in-the-air\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pointed in the air<\/a> while Trump spoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember as a young student, you know, trying to figure out how people get basically drawn in by Hitler,\u201d Clinton\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qI98TIm-r_I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> at the Texas Tribune festival in September. \u201cHow did that happen? I\u2019d watch newsreels and I\u2019d see this guy standing up there ranting and raving, and people shouting and raising their arms. I thought, \u2018What\u2019s happened to these people?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw the rally in Ohio the other night,\u201d Clinton continued. \u201cTrump is there ranting and raving for more than an hour, and you have these rows of young men with their arms raised. I thought, \u2018What is going on?\u2019 So, there is a real pressure, and I think it is fair to say we\u2019re in a struggle between democracy and autocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, led by Biden, have amped up their rhetoric about the alleged threat to American democracy posed by Republicans. Biden claimed Republicans were motivated by \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/horribly-insulting-gop-gov-demands-biden-apologize-for-saying-some-republicans-motivated-by-semi-fascism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">semi-fascism<\/a>\u201d at a donor event in August, then doubled down on his rhetoric in his \u201cBattle for the Soul of the Nation\u201d speech on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-demonizes-millions-of-americans-while-calling-for-unity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 1<\/a>. His rhetoric has been amplified by Democrats on the campaign trail in the final days before the 2022 midterms by campaign surrogates like former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/03\/obama-warns-democracy-survive-arizona-00064813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/newsletters\/archive\/2022\/11\/a-closing-argument-for-democracy\/671987\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legacy media outlets<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marceelias\/status\/1588648470465986560?s=20&#038;t=8tzCKJc4XW6CyPRpPVwIrA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic activists<\/a>, and even Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tony4WI\/status\/1588653565060317185?s=20&#038;t=9oH_SjzltIHMg6ELaEqV9Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">candidates<\/a> themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) compared the state of American democracy to Weimar Germany. In an interview with Fox News Friday, Clyburn reacted to the violent attack on Paul Pelosi last week. Clyburn said that the country was following the path of the Weimar Republic in 1930s Germany, the fall of which led &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1219059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}