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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 GOP 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 as a sign of their hatred today.

Republican Rep. Dave Taylor of Ohio denounced the swastika, which was spotted
on Wednesday on a wall in the background of a videoconferencing call that a
constituent had with one of Taylor's congressional aides. The swastika appeared
as part of an altered 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 near an employee in my office. The content of that image does not
reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I
condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement. "Upon learning
of this matter, I immediately directed a thorough investigation alongside
Capitol Police, which remains ongoing. No further comment will be provided
until it has been completed.”




 



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This is just the latest instance in which Republicans have been shown to
traffic in Nazi symbols and rhetoric.

On Tuesday, Politico published a report on a group chat between GOP operatives
in which they fantasized about putting their opponents in gas chambers, like
Hitler did during the Holocaust, and spewed racist and antisemitic rhetoric,
among other despicable comments.

Rather than condemn the chat, Republicans like Vice President JD Vance wrote
it off as a conversation between “college” students, even though many of the
group chat’s members were in their 20s and 30s and worked in Republican
politics, in the White House, and even as elected officials.

At the end of the day, the Trump administration is unequivocally fascist.

Just look at the Merriam-Webster definition of fascism:

A populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the
Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is
associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial
leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation
and by forcible suppression of opposition.




 



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That is exactly what President Donald Trump is doing.

He is seeking to rid the country of immigrants of color, sending in his
masked goons to violently abduct people they suspect are undocumented based on
their complexion.



Trump is also moving to amend the refugee policy to favor white people who
claim, without evidence, to be persecuted in their countries for espousing
racist opposition to immigration, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

In fact, the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday posted on X the word
“Remigrate,” a term used by global far-right groups that calls for the mass
deportation of migrants in order to preserve a white society.

Trump is also forcibly suppressing opposition by using the Department of
Justice and other levers of government to hamstring and prosecute Democrats and
Democratic groups, without credible evidence of wrongdoing.

The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday night reported that Trump is planning on
having the Internal Revenue Service investigate progressive nonprofit groups,
an effort to keep them from being able to oppose his agenda.

Fascism is here in America—both in Republican policies and even apparently on
the walls of Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

Lord help us.



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