Clyburn Claims US Is ‘On Track to Repeat What Happened’ in 1930s Germany
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) is urging voters to look beyond more than “what you may or may not be paying for gas,” and warning the United States could follow the path of Germany in the 1930s. Speaking to…
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) is urging voters to look beyond more than “what you may or may not be paying for gas,” and warning the United States could follow the path of Germany in the 1930s.
Speaking to Fox News Digital, the top House Democrat said, “This country is on track to repeat what happened in Germany, when it was the greatest democracy going, elected a chancellor that then co-opted the media.”
“This past president called the press the enemy of the people. That is a bunch of crap… And that is what’s going on in this country,” he continued.
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His comments come after President Joe Bidenreiterated his warning about the alleged threat to democracy posed by so-called “MAGA Republicans.”
The South Carolina Democrat also blamed the “demonization” of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for the assault of her husband.
However, he does not see Biden’s rhetoric as equivalent to the attacks on Pelosi.
During his speech, Biden urged Americans to “ask a simple question of each candidate you might vote for: Will that person accept the legitimate will of the American people and the people voting in his district or her district? Will that person accept the outcome of the election, win or lose?”