Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker compared Trump’s first month in office to tactics used by Nazis in Germany.

Summary

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker compared Donald Trump’s policies to the rise of Nazi Germany, warning against authoritarianism in his State of the State address.

Citing historical parallels, particularly economic grievances fueling extremism, he condemned Trump’s immigration policies. Republicans denounced his remarks as divisive.

He emphasized the speed of democratic collapse, stating, “It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.”

Pritzker also referenced Skokie’s 1978 neo-Nazi march, urging vigilance against threats to democracy.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
    312·
    2 days ago

    Remember when people would make comparisons to Nazis and it was always a sign they were a thoughtless lunatic?

    Scares the poop right out of me that now the lunatics are anyone that denies the very real parallels.

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
      33·
      2 days ago

      I only remember one side being called Nazis, and we were right. We have always been right. You seeing them as lunatics, does not make them so.

      • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 hours ago

        Then you are fairly young or just don’t remember clearly. It is/was called Godwin’s Law and originally hit the internet in 1991 as , or as it was better known in those days the World Wide Web. GL stated that, “As an online discussion continues, the probability of a comparison to Hitler or to Nazis approaches one.” It later became used to suggest that anyone who draws such a comparison in such a discussion has lost the argument.

        Here’s an entertaining article from 2018 about GL over the years from none other than it’s originator, Mike Godwin.

        Godwin’s Law in the Age of Trump

        • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 hours ago

          …you are misunderstanding. I am saying that some of those comparisons are, were, and always have been accurate. Just because the Internet is stupid and people exaggerate doesn’t make it less true that there have always been Nazis working to destroy the world. They never went away. They are not literally Nazis, as in part of the Nazi party of Germany, but their organizations and groups were created by them and for them. Do you think the heritage foundation came out of nowhere? Like they all met by chance at a golf tournament?