JB Pritzker talked at length during his “State of the State” address castigating his political opponents as Nazis. And why not? He called his political opponents fascists during the last campaign season.
The vast majority of Illinois has nobody representing it in the Illinois General Assembly. The people running Illinois, including the Black Caucus in particular, love – LOVE – illegal aliens (even the ones committing child sex crimes against our kids). They love criminals and hate the police. They despise gun owners and Christians who bitterly cling to their guns, religion or conservative beliefs. JB Pritzker is an evil person for dancing on the graves of millions of Jews slaughtered by the hard-left Nazis in Germany during the Second World War to score political points among his staunchest followers. It’s almost like throwing out red meat to his base.
It’s almost like Pritzker’s trying to dehumanize his opponents to legitimize political violence against them. As if he really wants to hurt us and our families. This is way past name-calling. This is a call to arms and violence against those who don’t share his political beliefs. IN other words, it’s fascism.
It was supposed to be the annual State of the State and Budget Address, but the most notable segment by far in Gov. J.B Pritzker’s Wednesday speech was what he said about Americans he opposes.
They are Nazis, he told us.
That message was deliberate and unequivocal: “I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly,” he said after talking about his work building the Holocaust Museum and an earlier Nazi march.
“I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now,” Pritzker said, citing President Trump blaming a recent plane crash on diversity hiring and the Missouri Attorney General’s reverse discrimination lawsuit against Starbucks. “The authoritarian playbook is laid bare,” he said. “They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.”
Pritzker continued. “I just have one question. What comes next? All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it…. If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.”
Note that Pritzker’s words weren’t only about Donald Trump. The looming and sinister “they” are the Nazi threat, Pritzker said. The Missouri attorney general is an example.
It’s not the first time Pritzker has made such an astonishing charge about so many Americans. Last year, he said all Republican Trump supporters are fascist. “Illinois Democrats have done more in the last five years to push back on the wave of authoritarian, anti-democratic MAGA Republican nonsense than in any other place in the country,” Pritzker said. “Leave it to us to raise the tallest flag in the fight against modern American fascism.”
The full text of the relevant part of Pritzker’s speech is below.
It’s difficult to imagine words more inflammatory and irresponsible than Pritzker’s. “Nazi” is perhaps the worst conceivable insult, they being tyrannical monsters who slaughtered some 20 million people during World War II and its run-up.
How are Pritzker’s words not incitement to violence? To those convinced by Pritzker’s words, would it not be morally right, or even morally imperative, to use violence or even kill those who are bringing Nazism to America?
Pritzker’s accusation applies to around half of America, with support growing. A recent CBS poll, for example, found Trump’s job approval rating at 53%. Support is much stronger, as that poll showed, for Trump policies to which Pritzker is most hostile, namely, those on illegal immigration, deportations and DEI policies (diversity, equity and inclusion).
Among other consequences of words as outrageous as Pritzker’s is his loss of credibility on matters that Trump can be reasonably criticized for. There’s no shortage of those. Most Americans, for example, don’t like Trump’s tariff policies, and even Trump’s Republican base doesn’t like his idea for America taking ownership of Gaza. On those and many other matters, Pritzker’s bombast about Nazism dooms him to irrelevance. All hope of constructive input is forfeited. The Trump Administration will laugh him off or perhaps impose reprisals on Illinois.
Finally, does Pritzker not know that invoking the Holocaust and comparisons to Nazism must be used sparingly to preserve their impact when true risks arise?
Who does Pritzker think benefits from insults like the ones he made? Presumably, he thinks it will help him in the next presidential race, but good luck with that. His speech will help nobody. Not him, his faction of the Democratic Party, the State of Illinois or the United States. Hatred and division help nobody.
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Why bother responding to this tired rhetoric? The piece by Mark Glennon is wasted, he is preaching to the choir. He could write, shout, broadcast even stamp his feet in circles. JB and his supporters will not be convinced. You want nazi? I’ll give you nazi. I will bring the barbed wire, firewood, and dogs who will bring the ovens? We can round the ass clowns up and sew a hammer and sickle to their coats. Let the culling begin! I am tired beyond my ability to express of these Marxists.
The only thing I can criticize in the whole article is the reference to the Democratic Party. They haven’t been democratic for decades. Everyone who writes or speaks of them must refer to them as the Democrat Party.
The Democratic Party isn’t.
I have many opinions but I’ll leave it here.
Gov says, “Leave it to us to raise the tallest flag in the fight against American fascism.” Over the previous four years, as I recall, many of his peeps were raising flags. Few, if any, were the flag of the US (or if so, properly displayed).
Why bother responding to this tired rhetoric? The piece by Mark Glennon is wasted, he is preaching to the choir. He could write, shout, broadcast even stamp his feet in circles. JB and his supporters will not be convinced. You want nazi? I’ll give you nazi. I will bring the barbed wire, firewood, and dogs who will bring the ovens? We can round the ass clowns up and sew a hammer and sickle to their coats. Let the culling begin! I am tired beyond my ability to express of these Marxists.
The only thing I can criticize in the whole article is the reference to the Democratic Party. They haven’t been democratic for decades. Everyone who writes or speaks of them must refer to them as the Democrat Party.
The Democratic Party isn’t.
I have many opinions but I’ll leave it here.
Gov says, “Leave it to us to raise the tallest flag in the fight against American fascism.” Over the previous four years, as I recall, many of his peeps were raising flags. Few, if any, were the flag of the US (or if so, properly displayed).