Quite a banner week for Republican New York House hopeful Carl Paladino.
On Thursday, MediaMatters unearthed a local radio interview Paladino gave on Feb. 13 last year in which he cited Nazi ruler Adolf Hitler as a model for a leader who gets the people jazzed about taking action.
Of course Carl worships Hitler. Just one more thing he has in common with the dotard. Ol’ Carl is looking pretty ghoulish, himself.
He wears a little bracelet that asks, “What Would Hitler Do?”.
I’ve said it before, my biggest beef with Trump was the permission he granted to swine like Paladino, Kelley et al to say the quiet parts out loud and the license he granted to news orgs to report it on a par with non-bomb throwing, serious policymakers.
If Paladino wins it’s going be a bit awkward on Veterans Day, and Memorial Day.
Carl looks up to someone who ultimately failed in everythong he did, destroyed his country as well as the rest of the continent, and finally killed himself in a basement because he was too scared of being held accountable? That guy?
Thats the guy you think was an inspiring leader?
I prefer inspiring leaders who don’t have to hide from their people and don’t die in a hole to avoid justice.
Karl’s statement should get him on Tucker Carlson’s Hate-stravaganza, if anything can.
How is it in this day and age that someone like this is actually influential in American politics?
Paladino is a Congressional candidate and the likely 2022 Republican primary winner.
“I was thinking the other day about somebody [who] had mentioned on the radio Adolf Hitler and how he aroused the crowds,” the Republican replied. “And he would get up there screaming these epithets and these people were just — they were hypnotized by him.”
“I guess that’s the kind of leader we need today,” he continued. “We need somebody inspirational. We need somebody that is a doer, has been there and done it, so that it’s not a strange new world to him.”
There are times that I think the Goopers have hit bottom with their candidates, and then this pops up. You’d think they’d have learned by now that ANY mention of that Austrian wallpaper hanger is an instant argument loser.
He cited Nazi ruler Adolf Hitler as a model for a leader who gets the people jazzed about taking action.
Sure, if by “taking action” you mean murdering 6 million Jews, Roma, and LGBTs.
(Today’s GOP seems pretty “jazzed” about that.)
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Oh but you see, those of us who screamed for years that the GOP was becoming a fascist party, were just being hyperbolic kooks.
It was in the past.
We’re about to find out if that’s the case in '22.
Trump only hires the best people.
"Paladino’s Hitler shout-out and the Facebook post are part of the longtime GOP operative’s pattern of unhinged behavior — set on full display when he made a failed bid for New York governor in 2010 and was working for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Lowlights include comparing First Lady Michelle Obama to a gorilla, advocating for throwing welfare recipients in prison, publicly accusing then-rival Gov. Andrew Cuomo of having an affair despite having a love child of his own and threatening to “take out” a reporter."
In a R+23 district, in a year that may not be advantageous to the Democrats.
I’d be happy if current House Republican leadership was crazy and split, but they’re just crazy and to a % of the American press, that makes em front-runners and leaders.
Clearly not inspirational enough for Paladino to emulate Hitler’s last act in the bunker.
Wait, what? A “conservative outsider”?