If you thought Democrats were going to learn that comparing Donald Trump to Hitler was a tactical misfire on their part, think again. Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) dusted off the ol' playbook in an appearance with Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto.
Not only did Clyburn compare the president-elect to Hitler, he doubled down by suggesting he's also comparable to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and then bragged that he's been saying Trump is dragging America back to 1930s Germany for years.
Because he's a student of history ... or something.
"The country has gone lurching back to the right. I hope it’s not going as far right as that which happened in Germany in the 1930s," Clyburn said, clearly suggesting it was. "But you may remember I forewarned way back in 2018 that I saw this coming. I’ve studied history all of my life."
Democrats Never Learn, Exhibit #978 - @RepJamesClyburn flat-out compares @realDonaldTrump to Hitler and Mussolini.
— Rusty (@Rusty_Weiss) November 17, 2024
Liberalism is a mental disorder. pic.twitter.com/RYEt5urdXM
"I mean, since being a preteen, I’ve been enamored with this country’s history. And I can tell you what I said back in 2018 on another network is now coming to pass," Clyburn fretted. "People chastised me for saying it at that time, but now they are seeing it."
Narrator: We're actually not seeing it.
Cavuto fed into the narrative and connected the dots. In case people weren't sure what a "Germany in the 1930s" analogy meant.
"Well, how are we seeing it?" the Fox host asked. "He’s not president yet. I mean, are you envisioning another Hitler? Is that what you’re saying?"
The South Carolina congressman opted not to tiptoe around it.
"That’s exactly what I’m saying. I said the 1930s in Germany!" Clyburn insisted, prompting Cavuto to reply, "Yes, you did."
Naturally, that led to the next logical progression in leftist thinking: If he's just like Hitler, he must be just like other dictators as well. Prompting this exchange in which Clyburn is comparing the next leader of the free world to evil individuals who killed millions while Neil provides, shall we say, gentle pushback.
Clyburn: And of course. And we go to Mussolini in Italy. These things –
Cavuto: So you don’t think that’s a little hyperbolic?
Clyburn: No, you may think so.
Cavuto: Okay.
The prominent Democrat then launched into a tirade about recess appointments being somehow comparable to the Jim Crow era. Cavuto happily followed his lead.
It was just last month that the former president took to his Truth Social media platform to put Cavuto on blast for being soft on Democrats, particularly for allowing Kamala Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams to regurgitate several false claims.
"Neil Cavuto has one of the worst shows on Television—and the worst rated on FoxNews," said Trump. "The people on Fake News CNN are better!"
It seems unlikely that he will view Cavuto in a better light after he provided little to no resistance to Clyburn's comments.
If you were looking for something that really gets the Fox News host fired up, it'd be the time Trump hammered the network for hosting Democrats on their shows and alleging the network wasn't working for the American people.
Cavuto nearly lost his cookies.
“First of all, Mr. President, we don’t work for you. I don’t work for you,” he said. “My job is to cover you, not fawn over you or rip you, just report on you. To call balls and strikes on you. My job, Mr. President, our job here, is to keep score, not settle scores.”
Check out Neil's latest Common Sense pic.twitter.com/Iwg9ZrxDeH
— Neil Cavuto (@TeamCavuto) August 29, 2019
Was Cavuto calling balls and strikes on Clyburn's comments? Was he equally as distraught over his comments as he was in the above clip?
Getting back to the good representative from the Palmetto State, his Hitler comparisons have been ongoing for years.
Former CNN host Don Lemon asked Clyburn's assessment of the state of the nation in 2018, to which he replied, "Troubling."
"I can only equate one period of time with what we are experiencing now, and that is what was going on in Germany around 1934, right after the 1932 elections when Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor," he said.
The comparison would become a theme.
"Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany. And he went about the business of discrediting institutions to the point that people bought into" it,” Clyburn said in an NBC News interview in 2019. "Nobody would have believed it now. But swastikas hung in churches throughout Germany. We had better be very careful.”
Both Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaned hard into the "Trump and his supporters are Nazis" theme prior to the election. Harris promoted a factually devoid column from The Atlantic saying Trump praised Hitler.
Clinton took it a step further, suggesting anybody that attended a rally at Madison Square Garden before the election was essentially a Nazi.
Hillary Clinton’s comparison of Trump’s upcoming Madison Square Garden rally to a 1939 Nazi rally is beyond desperate.
— Kevin Rinke (@KevinRinke) October 25, 2024
At this point, these over-the-top attacks only reveal how panicked they are. The public isn’t buying it—they see right through the fear-mongering. pic.twitter.com/2TGvjV9JOx
Clyburn was railing against Dictator Trump before 2020. They, with the help of 81 million votes, got him out of office. Clyburn played an integral role in rescuing Biden's campaign.
Yet, they somehow let Hitler back in? *YAWN*
Biden seemed awfully happy to greet such a threat to the world at the White House last week.
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