What the heil? Swastika found in House Republican’s office.
Republican lawmakers have been screaming for weeks that anyone who calls their party fascist is responsible for political violence across the country.
And yet, on Wednesday, a Republican lawmaker from Ohio was caught with a swastika in his office — a symbol appropriated by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party and one that white supremacists continue to use today as a sign of their hatred.
Republican Rep. Dave Taylor of Ohio denounced the swastika, which was spotted Wednesday on a wall in the background of a video conference a constituent had with one of Taylor’s congressional aides. The swastika appeared as part of a modified American flag, with the flag’s red stripes forming a swastika in the middle.
In a press release, Taylor called the symbol “vandalism.”
“I am aware of an image that appears to depict a vile and deeply inappropriate symbol in close proximity to an employee of my office. The content of this image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or me, and I condemn it in the strongest terms,” Taylor said. said in a statement. “Upon learning of this matter, I immediately directed a thorough investigation alongside the Capitol Police, which is ongoing. No further comment will be provided until it is complete.”
This is just the latest example of Republicans peddling Nazi symbols and rhetoric.
On Tuesday, Politico published a report on a group discussion between GOP operatives in which they fantasized about putting their opponents in gas chambers, as Hitler did during the Holocaust, and spouted racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric, among other despicable comments.
Rather than condemn the cat, Republicans love Vice President JD Vance wrote him off as a conversation between “college” students, even though most of the focus group members were in their 20s and 30s and worked in Republican politics, in the White House and even as elected officials.
Ultimately, the Trump administration is unequivocally fascist.
Just look at the Merriam-Webster definition of fascism:
A populist philosophy, movement or political regime (such as that of Fascists) which exalts the nation and often the race above the individual, which is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and which is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and forced repression of opposition.
That’s exactly what President Donald Trump is doing.
He seeks to rid the country of immigrants of color, sending his masked men has violently kidnapping people they suspect they are undocumented depending on their complexion.
Trump also plans to change refugee policy to favor white people who claim, without evidence, to be persecuted at home for espousing racist opposition to immigration, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
In fact, the Department of Homeland Security posted on X on Tuesday the word “Remigrate», a term used by the world far-right groups who calls for mass deportation migrants in order to preserve a white society.
Trump is also forcibly suppressing opposition by using the Justice Department and other government levers to paralyze and pursue Democrats and Democratic groups, without credible evidence of wrongdoing.
The Wall Street Journal Wednesday evening reported that Trump plans to ask the Internal Revenue Service to investigate progressive nonprofit groups, in an effort to prevent them from opposing his agenda.
Fascism is present here in America, both in Republican politics and even apparently on the walls of Republican lawmakers at the Capitol.
Lord, help us.
