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Is It Fair to Call ICE "Wannabe Nazis?"

Michael Smerconish

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[0:00]He called Ice "wannabe Nazis." The Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, aspirant for 2028, said he found that reference abhorrent.
[0:00]I think as part of the logic that anytime you invoke Nazism, you're diluting the real impact of the Holocaust.
[0:00]I think it's a fair comment, whenever you use the N-word, you should use it sparingly, but I think we can learn from history.
[0:00]Germany, if people, if historians were to evaluate the most progressive, enlightened societies over the last 200 years on average, they might pick Germany.
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[0:00]I'm asking the following, who's right? The very progressive Philadelphia district attorney is Larry Krasner. He called Ice "wannabe Nazis." The Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, aspirant for 2028, said he found that reference abhorrent. I think as part of the logic that anytime you invoke Nazism, you're diluting the real impact of the Holocaust. I think it's a fair comment, whenever you use the N-word, you should use it sparingly, but I think we can learn from history. Germany, if people, if historians were to evaluate the most progressive, enlightened societies over the last 200 years on average, they might pick Germany. Other than an 11-year descent into darkness, they were pro-immigration, huge appreciation for the arts, academia, democracy. And they descended into chaos because they didn't have institutions and leaders that pushed back on a slow burn into fascism. The moment we start sending in a mass secret police, the moment we start ignoring co-equal branches of government, the moment we end up in a situation where federal agents are pumping three bullets into the face of a mother or 10 bullets into an ICU nurse caring for veterans, we should have a swift and immediate response.

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