Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) is standing by his decision to draw parallels between the current state of the United States and Germany before the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s.
The House majority whip was asked during a Fox News Sunday appearance about his recent warnings that the U.S. was facing the same political crossroads that Germany faced in the years leading up to Adolf Hitler’s rise and that the country was “on track” to repeat the same mistakes by electing MAGA Republicans. Clyburn defended and reiterated the comparison while agreeing to walk back his claim that Republicans winning control of Congress in this week’s midterm elections would mean the “end of the world.”
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“The facts are very clear. I’ve studied history all of my life. I’ve taught history,” Clyburn told anchor Shannon Bream. “I’m telling you, what I see here are parallels to what the history was in this world back in the 1930s in Germany, in Italy.”
Asked if this meant that voters who didn’t vote for Democrats in this week’s midterm elections were “somehow supporting something akin to the rise of Hitler,” Clyburn said no, instead insisting that his comparison was directed toward “election-deniers,” “liars,” and similar “foolishness.”
The top House Democrat was then asked about his “end of the world” claim, which he initially denied ever saying. Once pressed with a quote that he had made, Clyburn said that the world itself would not end but that American democracy might.
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“Nobody’s saying the world is ending,” Clyburn said at first while denying he had ever claimed as much. “Democracy will be ended. The world would continue to exist. The world was here before Hitler, the world was here after Hitler.”
“The world will not end,” he then added, walking back his remarks from late last week. “The kind of world we have, the kind of country we have. We’ve got to decide how we want to exist in this world. And that’s what we’re talking about. This hyperbole is not part of what we’re saying here.”
