The six-term Republican accused Democrats and members of the media of propagating a “big lie” about collusion, an expression coined by Hitler to defame the Jews.
By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K. Email Bio Follow March 26 at 5:55 AM Rep. Mo Brooks 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.
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.A spokesman for the congressman didn’t return a query from The Washington Post inviting him to elaborate on his analysis.
He placed extra emphasis on the word “socialist,” which has returned as the GOP’s favored boogeyman following the rise of a more vocal left-wing flank of the Democratic Party. He added that, “If socialists in the fake news media had any honor, they would cleanse their souls and atone for their sins.” He went on: “Quote: ‘In the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily," he said.
On Monday, the Anti-Defamation League called on Brooks to apologize for comparing Democrats to Nazis but made no mention of his decision to deploy rhetoric from “Mein Kampf.”
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