Replies to post #79797 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[StephanieVanbryce]

DeMint’s discourse: Government is fascist, says he will ‘break’ Obama and cause the Senate ‘pain.’



Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) is ratcheting up his anti-Obama rhetoric. On a call with right-wing activists yesterday afternoon, he proudly proclaimed that he aims to “break” the President by defeating health reform. He also said recently that he prefers to cause “pain” to his fellow legislators rather than working on reform. And while promoting his new book on the G. Gordon Liddy show yesterday, DeMint agreed with Gordon — who ironically has a history of expressing sympathetic views to Nazis — that Obama has created a government like that under Hitler:

.........LIDDY: But there’s something else that I remember because I’m a lot older than you are and it’s called national socialism and that’s where the government allows private people to continue to own industrial capacity and what have you but tells them what they may — must do with it. You know, you will make Messerschmidts, etc. That was national socialism. That seems to me the way we’re going.

DEMINT: You’re right we’ve got national socialism, national paternalism and our form of socialism seems more benign than the classical form that we noted in Europe.

G. Gordon Liddy: listening to Hitler "made me feel a strength inside I had never known before"
http://mediamatters.org/research/200411230004

you can listen to this tirade, but you have to go to the link

This isn’t the first time DeMint has used this incorrect analogy. As Matt Yglesias previously wrote, “Look, comparing your domestic political rivals to Nazis is a time-honored tradition. But confusing the Nazis and Germany’s Social Democrats is a scandal. The Social Democrats were the main source of opposition to Hitler at a time when the Communists were bizarrely maintaining that there was no difference between the two and the mainstream parties of the center-right decided that it made sense to form a tactical alliance with Hitler. Social Democrats stand for a generous welfare state and active labor market policies. Nazis try to conquer the world and send people to the gas chamber.”

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/07/demint-confuses-nazis-and-social-democrats-also-calls-obama-a-nazi.php

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/18/demint-nationalsocialism-nazi/

[SilverSurfer]

funny thing about DeMint,
his brother is one of my good friends from way back when, so I am admitedly prejudice for him because I know him socially. I don't care for most republicans, tea partiers, or hardly any democrats but DeMint is at least a sincere guy. My post you replied to was not so much about him as his opposition to more government over reach which on that, I agree with Jim. BTW many of the links in your reply to me were to premium boards I do not have privy.. thx hge