Quote of the Day

The Republican Party is unabashedly publicly embracing Nazi propoganda. At Charlie Kirk’s funeral, the Trump administration chose to push Stephen Miller onto a national stage. And he reached into the poisonous well of the infamous Nazi Joseph Goebbels, plagiarizing a speech he gave to rile his base over the death of a 22-year-old Nazi named Horst Wessel. And then he poured those words into the ears of grieving Republican Christian’s. Google the 1932 “storm is coming” speech if you have doubts.

It is almost impossible to wrap your mind around that. Republicans are openly using Hitler’s playbook to mobilize their base against the left.

In the wake of tragedy, they turned a memorial into a rallying cry, not for unity, not for healing, but for rebellion and division. They weaponized grief with the very words that once fueled genocide. In a time of grief these fine Christian’s turned to the Nazi Party for guidance. Really think about that.

This is not just politics. It is horrific. It is obscene. It is unacceptable. And it must stop.

We cannot tolerate an administration, a movement, or a party that believes Nazi history and Nazi language are tools to be deployed against fellow Americans.

This is fascism, out in the open, dripping with contempt for the values this nation claims to stand for. And every Republican who remains silent in the face of this obscenity is complicit.

– Jason Duchin
via social media
September 24, 2025

See also the following chronologically-ordered Wild Reed posts:
• Marisa Kabas: “We’re Witnessing a Coup By an Unelected Billionaire Propped Up By a Felonious President”
• Timothy Snyder on Resisting the Oligarchs’ “Logic of Destruction”
• “This Is Essentially Viktor Orbán’s Playbook”
• “An Extremely Clever Ruse” by and for the Rich: Owen Jones on Elon Musk’s Coup
• “To Be a Rib in This Body of Our Country”
• Quote of the Day – February 21, 2025
• Ralph Nader: “We’re Heading Into the Most Serious Crisis in American History. There’s No Comparison”
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• “This Is How Democracy Unravels”
• Jason Stanley on How Fascism Works
• James Greenberg on Trumpism: “The Tactics Are Unmistakable”
• Tony Pentimalli on Trump’s “Death Warrant for Democracy”
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like”
• Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025
• “Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025
• “No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 2025
• Rep. Ro Khanna: Quote of the Day – June 24, 2025
• “This Is Fascism”
• The Declaration of Resistance
• The Choice Before Us
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025
• How Democrats Can Start Winning Again
• Brent Molnar on the MAGA Cult and Its Intentions
• James Greenberg: “The Choices We Make Matter”
• Brent Molnar on the “Cold War in Our Own House”
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement
• Jason Duchin: “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”
• Marianne Williamson: “We’re Moving Into Totalitarianism”
• Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”
• Bowing to an Idol
• Marianne Williamson on the Need for “Radical Love” in Responding to Trump’s Dismantling of Democracy
• Brent Molnar on the the Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel: “This Is What Fascism Looks Like in Practice”
• James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA
• Staying Strong in Trump’s Fascist America
• Memes of the Times – September 2025

See also:
• Marianne Williamson on America’s “Cults of Madness”
• “The Republican Party Has Now Made It Official: They Are a Cult”
• Chauncey Devega on the Ongoing Danger of the Trump Cult
• Jeff Sharlet on the Fascist Ideology of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene
• The Republican Party in a Nutshell
• Robert Reich: Quote of the Day – April 11, 2023
• Republicans Don’t Care About American Democracy