Unreal.
Not to mention obscene.
Over there at Fox News is this headline: “VA Dem slams DOGE fans, compares job cuts to the Holocaust: ‘First they came for the Jews,’” with the subtitle, “Del. Joshua Cole of Fredericksburg cited Rev. Martin Niemöller’s confession.”
The story reports:
State Del. Brandon Cole, D-Fredericksburg, invoked a famous Holocaust-related quote from a reformed German clergyman who once identified with the Nazi Party during a hearing last week.
“I must say that I have seen so many different people on social media rather excited about these [DOGE] cuts; rather excited about these job losses,” Cole said.
“And that reminds me of a quote from a long time ago that said: ‘At first they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t Jewish. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. And then when they came for me, there was no one to speak up because everyone had been taken.’”
The quote was a rough translation of a famous 1946 “confession” by Rev. Martin Niemöller, a minister who had reportedly briefly identified with Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party before he became a high-profile critic in the late 1930s and was thrown into a concentration camp.
Wow.
Modernizing and focusing the massive federal bureaucracy, as Elon Musk is tasked by President Trump to do, is equal to … the Holocaust?
Really? Really???
In fact, and doubtless unintentionally, this Democrat’s protest comparing the two illustrates exactly the sacredness that an old-fashioned love of the politics of Big Government pork has inside the Democrat Party.
Today’s Democrat Party is financially fueled by the unions that control the federal bureaucracy — and paid for by American taxpayers.
Recall this story from the Hill in October 2016 as the Trump versus Hillary election began to close. The headline: “Government workers shun Trump, give big money to Clinton.”
The story reported:
Federal government employees are opening their wallets to help Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump on Nov. 8.
Of the roughly $2 million that federal workers from 14 agencies spent on presidential politics by the end of September, about $1.9 million, or 95 percent, went to the Democratic nominee’s campaign, according to an analysis by the Hill.
Employees at all the agencies analyzed, without exception, are sending their campaign contributions overwhelmingly to Clinton over her Republican counterpart. Several agencies, such as the State Department, which Clinton once led, saw more than 99 percent of contributions going to Clinton.
Federal government employees overwhelmingly backed Clinton’s presidential campaign no matter which agency The Hill analyzed using Federal Election Commission data covering donors giving more than $200.
So that understood — or that should be understood — by this Democrat state legislator in Virginia, he pipes up to compare the reform, streamlining, and modernizing of the federal government to … the Holocaust???
And for the historically unaware, the Holocaust of Adolph Hitler mass murdered some six million Jews.
This can only raise the point that this legislator has accidentally revealed the importance with which Democrats regard the financial support for their party from federal bureaucrats.
The central point of this Democrat’s reasoning, alas, is not hard to figure out. For the Left, the massive bureaucracy of the federal government and its tens of thousands of employees — employees whose financial contributions to Democrats, as indicated, are political gold. They are the financial and decidedly self-interested political rock on which the power of the Democrat Party is based.
Understood.
But another Holocaust? Really?
It is perhaps worth noting that there are two large buildings in Washington D.C. that illustrate the problem in saying something this off the wall.
On Capital Hill sits the building housing the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Not unlike its nearby Republican National Committee, the DNC building is all about the decidedly mundane task of running the logistics of a national political party.
At the other end of the Washington Mall, however, stands another building altogether. That would be the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A visit to the quite vivid displays on the site of the Holocaust Museum reveals this description of the building’s purpose:
Nazism represented a singular evil that resulted in the murder of six million Jews and the persecution and deaths of millions of others for racial and political reasons. Comparing contemporary situations to Nazism is not only offensive to its victims, but it is also inaccurate and misrepresents both Holocaust history and the present. The Holocaust should be remembered, studied, and understood so that we can learn its lessons; it should not be exploited for opportunistic purposes.
A nonpartisan federal, educational institution, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, dedicated to ensuring the permanence of Holocaust memory, understanding, and relevance. Through the power of Holocaust history, the Museum challenges leaders and individuals worldwide to think critically about their role in society and to confront antisemitism and other forms of hate, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. For more information, visit ushmm.org.
As someone who has made a point of visiting the Holocaust museum, the notion of comparing the museum and its reminder of its horrific contents to the decidedly peaceful work of Elon Musk as tasked by a democratically elected president to bring the overstaffed federal government down to a more efficient and reformed government is a disgrace.
But it is a telling disgrace.
A telling disgrace that says everything about the serious political worth a massive federal bureaucracy has to the well-being of the Democratic Party.
Not good.
Not good at all.
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