Remind AOC that the network of ‘concentration camps’ that she’s complaining about predates President Trump (Barack Obama was the first to implement this controversial border separation policy).
During an Instagram Live late Monday, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared border detention centers to ‘concentration camps’, and accused President Trump of being a fascist on par with Hitler. During her talk, AOC refused to shy away from the US-Nazi Germany comparison, according to the Hill.
“The US is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are,”the freshman lawmaker said. “If that doesn’t bother you…I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that ‘never again’ means something.”
“The fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the ‘Home of the Free’ is extraordinarily disturbing, and we need to do something about it,” she added.
AOC said she wasn’t trying to throw “bombs” with the Holocaust comparison. But that didn’t stop her from breaking the first rule of public speaking: Just don’t mention the Holocaust or Hitler. The situation in the US has become a crisis as freedom slips away in the face of an “authoritarian, fascist president.”
“I don’t use those words lightly. I don’t use those words to just throw bombs. I use that word because that is what an administration that creates concentration camps is,” she said. “A presidency that creates concentration camps is fascist, and it’s very difficult to say that.”
AOC Says “Fascist” Trump Running “Concentration Camps” Along Southern Border
Has the far-left fringe of the Democratic Party really learned nothing from Ilhan Omar’s repeated brushes with antisemitism? During an Instagram Live late Monday, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared border detention centers to ‘concentration camps’, and accused President Trump of being a fascist on par with Hitler.