GOP Lawmaker Quotes Hitler to Slam Trump’s Adversaries

“Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) took to the House floor on Monday to portray President Trump’s detractors as Nazis but ended up slurring them using an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory drawn verbatim from Adolf Hitler’s writings,” the Washington Post reports.

“It was unclear if Brooks grasped that by leveling charges of the ‘big lie,’ he had inverted his own analogy, making Democrats the equivalent of interwar German and Austrian Jews. He set out to compare the other side to fascists, but he was the one employing a fascist smear — one that, ironically, came to define Nazi propaganda.”