'It took the Nazis one month': Pritzker compares Trump's policies to 1930s Germany
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Story by Jacob Kornbluh (20 Feb 2025)
Illinois' Democratic Governor, J.B. Pritzker, drew a parallel between the Nazi regime of the 1930s and the policies of the Trump administration in a speech on Wednesday warning against authoritarian tactics. His remarks sparked sharp backlash from state Republicans, who condemned them as "juvenile and dangerous."
"The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn't arrive overnight," Pritzker, who is Jewish, said in his annual State of the State address. "It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame."
Pritzker said that although he does not "invoke the specter of Nazis lightly," his deep understanding of history compels him to speak out against Trump's actions since returning to the presidency, particularly his harsh immigration measures and mass deportation orders.
"If you think I'm overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this," he told lawmakers. "It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I'm saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control."
"Here's what I've learned," Pritzker said. "The root that tears apart your house's foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame."
He is not the only person saying this. I guess it's easier when you see it happening to someone else. When you look at it from outside, or a place of experience. Arnie said similar things. He grew up around that whole thing. That's what saddens me about this whole thing. Like he said, it's all about hate and blame. It's always easier to blame something or someone else for the woes of the world. It's always easier to have a target. When that target is forcibly removed, and nothing changes... who do you blame then? Who is left?
Wise dude. The problem isn't the people you hate, the problem is those doing the hating. History repeats, and will always repeat while ever people don't learn lessons from it.
The Republicans should be careful calling anything juvenile and dangerous, though. That's hypocrisy of the highest degree.