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2018-12-27 Home Front: Politix
Retiring GOP congressman: Trump era 'could lead to a future Hitler-like character' in the US
[Washington Examiner] An outgoing Republican lawmaker warned Wednesday the country's current political climate could produce a figure like Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler

"I want to be clear and explicit that I am not likening Trump to Hitler, but the forces at play could lead to a future Hitler-like character if we don’t watch out. It must be remembered that another thing that Benjamin Franklin said was that he who trades his freedom for security, deserves neither. Indeed, how true," Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., wrote in a Facebook post, also referring to one of the nation's Founding Fathers.

The comments were supposed to be included in a farewell speech Sanford was due to deliver on the House floor last Thursday before lawmakers were called to deal with an imminent partial government shutdown and President Trump announcing his intention to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. Sanford's parting message was one of thanks and caution, signaling that the country was headed toward "a shipwreck if we don’t change course."
Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-27 03:45|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ]  Top

#1 ...If Mark Sanford told me at high noon that the sun was shining, I'd send three people out to check. Fu@king idiot, and the people who voted for him after he returned from Argentina are worse.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-12-27 04:49||   2018-12-27 04:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Retiring GOP congressman: Trump era 'could lead to a future Hitler-like character' in the US

Do the Donk reaction will to be to vote in Occasional-Cortex?
Posted by gorb 2018-12-27 04:56||   2018-12-27 04:56|| Front Page Top

#3 "In the future everyone will be Hitler for 15 minutes" Instapundit
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-12-27 05:18||   2018-12-27 05:18|| Front Page Top

#4 What he says doesn't even make sense with what Trump's done.

Is he the GOPe's occasional cortex?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-12-27 06:33||   2018-12-27 06:33|| Front Page Top

#5 The (then Gov) Mark Sanford of the infamous AWOL in Argentina with his Latin hoochie mama. Yeah, I trust his judgement.

BTW, we were already half way there before Trump. All he did was to expose an unaccountable, lawless nomenclatura running Washington DC.
Posted by Count Galeazzo the Anonymous7377 2018-12-27 07:02||   2018-12-27 07:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Not Hitler. More like Franco-Pinochet after you screw what reminds of the old republic beyond recovery.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-27 07:52||   2018-12-27 07:52|| Front Page Top

#7 His message was garbled between brain and mouth by an over-tight belt and pants
Posted by Frank G 2018-12-27 08:54||   2018-12-27 08:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Sanford was criticized by President Donald Trump via Twitter for being "very unhelpful," and "nothing but trouble" hours before polls closed on the day of the June 12th Republican primary
Posted by JohnQC 2018-12-27 11:17||   2018-12-27 11:17|| Front Page Top

#9 I do believe he saved us from a hitler type leader...
Posted by 49 Pan 2018-12-27 11:19||   2018-12-27 11:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Eight years of a 'bath house' Joseph Stalin was quite enough.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-27 11:25||   2018-12-27 11:25|| Front Page Top

#11 If it happens, it will be because Deep State shenanigans caused people to lose faith that "normal channels" will work.

When we see Mueller and judges doing their best to reverse the verdict of 2016, we may see a critical mass of normies throw up their hands and say:

"OK, we tried following the rules by dutifully voting in primaries and the general. And you clowns are sending a message that our decisions will be ignored or undermined. Now we'll just let it all burn."
Posted by charger 2018-12-27 11:26||   2018-12-27 11:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Sanford's still mad that Nikki Haley buried his ass and beat his good ole boy networks dirt machine in SC.

Hitler is one thing, but we had a closer version of that to Kim Il Sung in "Dear Leader" Obama and the blind worship the press engaged in.

Sanford is a bitter fool. Dont go away mad, just go away.
Posted by Glolush Whusotch4899 2018-12-27 18:41||   2018-12-27 18:41|| Front Page Top

#13 Retiring because he wanted to, or because he knew he'd lose reelection because he's an idiot?
Posted by ruprecht 2018-12-27 21:02||   2018-12-27 21:02|| Front Page Top

#14 B, but he was "misunderstood by the electorate"
Posted by Frank G 2018-12-27 21:12||   2018-12-27 21:12|| Front Page Top

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