November 4, 2022 10:36am EDT
House Majority Whip: US 'on track to repeat' Nazi Germany, downplays inflation ahead of midterms
House Majority Whip James Clyburn claims US will soon resemble Germany in the 1930s, pointing blame at far-right extremism
By Andrew Murray , Sophia Slacik | Fox News
EXCLUSIVE — House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., blamed the right's "demonization of Nancy Pelosi" for the attack on Paul Pelosi in their San Francisco home, saying that this is what happens in a country that follows "Germany in the early '30s."
"This country is on track to repeat what happened in Germany when it was the greatest democracy going, when it elected a chancellor that then co-opted the media," Clyburn told Fox News Digital on Thursday. "This past president called the press the enemy of the people. That is a bunch of crap. And that is what's going on in this country."
President Biden gave an impromptu speech on Wednesday, his last major address before Election Day, in which he seemed to point the finger at the right for the Paul Pelosi attack, while also accusing Republicans of supporting political violence, election denialism and voter intimidation.
Though the South Carolina Democrat decried the right's "demonization" of Nancy Pelosi that he says is to blame for the attack, Clyburn doesn't see Biden's frequent vilification of "ultra-MAGA Republicans" as equivalent.
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