On Friday night’s The Scenario Room, the brand new CNN was once more trying just like the previous CNN as fill-in host Brianna Keilar helpfully invited Home Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) to increase on current feedback evaluating the U.S. to the lead-up to Nazi Germany within the early Nineteen Thirties.
After Clyburn complained about a few of the reactions by Republicans to the current assault on Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Keilar adopted up:
A part of what we have seen occur right here lately — that’s a part of why you latterly in contrast America proper now to Germany within the early Nineteen Thirties. That is what you mentioned. And also you mentioned that we’re on observe to repeat what occurred in Germany right here in America. Are you able to clarify what you see taking place right here in America that prompted you to say that?
The Democrat congressman started by portraying himself as an knowledgeable on historical past: “All you must do is take a look at historical past. Keep in mind, I studied historical past all of my life. I used to show it. And what I see lining up on this nation — and there are lots of people who’re starting to say this now…”
After patting himself on the again for predicting that President Donald Trump would resist conceding an election defeat, Clyburn repeated a discredited fable that Georgia Republicans made it unlawful to offer water to folks standing in line to vote:
And I will let you know one thing else: If the voters don’t intercede, we’re going to see this democracy come to a crashing halt. This democracy has existed as a result of folks have been free to take part in it. While you’re organising committees that may overturn the outcomes of an election, that’s what autocracies are born of. While you’re saying we’ll make it a criminal offense to offer anyone a bottle of water standing in line for 4 or 5 hours, that is the type of stuff that autocracies are made from. That is what I am speaking about.
As he concluded, despite his earlier claims of being an knowledgeable at historical past, Clyburn incorrectly claimed that Adolf Hitler was “duly elected” chancellor of Germany regardless that he was really appointed by Germany’s president. After which Hitler “went concerning the enterprise of discrediting the press. What did the previous President say? The press is “the enemy of the folks.” That is what autocracies are made from.”
Keilar gave no pushback to his mudslinging comparability of Republicans to Nazis as she then simply concluded the phase: “Congressman James Clyburn, thanks a lot to your time this night.”
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Transcript follows:
CNN’s The Scenario Room
November 4, 2022
5:25 p.m. Japanese
CONGRESSMAN JAMES CLYBURN (HOUSE MAJORITY WHIP): So folks will begin pushing all of those lies. What is going on to our nation? The place is the goodness that has all the time been an element, no matter the place we stood on these points? Alexis de Tocqueville advised us years in the past, “If we lose our goodness, we’re going to lose our greatness.” That’s simply how easy it’s.
BRIANNA KEILAR: Let me — a part of what we have seen occur right here lately — that’s a part of why you latterly in contrast America proper now to Germany within the early Nineteen Thirties. That is what you mentioned. And also you mentioned that we’re on observe to repeat what occurred in Germany right here in America. Are you able to clarify what you see taking place right here in America that prompted you to say that?
CLYBURN: All you must do is take a look at historical past. Keep in mind, I studied historical past all of my life. I used to show it. And what I see lining up on this nation — and there are lots of people who’re starting to say this now — I have been saying it again since 2018 — after I mentioned that Trump was not planning to surrender the presidency, lots of people gave me a tough time for having mentioned that. Now, we see on January 6 he was not planning to surrender the presidency.
And I will let you know one thing else: If the voters don’t intercede, we’re going to see this democracy come to a crashing halt. This democracy has existed as a result of folks have been free to take part in it. While you’re organising committees that may overturn the outcomes of an election, that’s what autocracies are born of. While you’re saying we’ll make it a criminal offense to offer anyone a bottle of water standing in line for 4 or 5 hours, that is the type of stuff that autocracies are made from. That is what I am speaking about.
So that you return and take a look at Germany, who duly elected Adolf Hitler to be their chancellor, after which he went concerning the enterprise of discrediting the press. What did the previous President say? The press is “the enemy of the folks.” That is what autocracies are made from. We have higher get actual.
KEILAR: Congressman James Clyburn, thanks a lot to your time this night.