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During the 2024 presidential campaign, leftists, including Democrat political figures and legacy media outlets, regularly branded Donald Trump as a Nazi. This reckless rhetoric during the campaign made Mr. Trump a target of two assassination attempts. The Nazi rhetoric has only gotten more heated since President Trump took office for the second time. But the difference is that the Left has broadened its use of the Nazi slur to include Department of Homeland Security immigration law enforcement agents. This has led to sharply escalating physical attacks and obstruction by pro-illegal immigrant rioters against agents who have been simply doing their jobs, with tragic lethal consequences for two of the agitators. Their shootings have fueled even more anger, vitriol, obstruction, and violence.
We are not just talking about agitators holding up signs that read, “Stop Trump’s Gestapo,” a reference to Nazi Germany’s secret police. Leftwing politicians are spewing the same detestable battle cry against their made-up Nazi bogeymen, which encourages more chaos on the streets.
The real Nazis slaughtered approximately 6 million Jews, about two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population. The Left’s politicians’ and agitators’ comparison of what happened during the ghastly Holocaust to what is happening now as federal immigration law enforcement agents apprehend and detain criminal illegal immigrants on U.S. city streets is obscene.
Last year, for example, Illinois Democrat Governor JB Pritzker claimed that “we’re living in a world that looks a whole lot like the early ’30s in Germany.” He reiterated this odious claim in January 2026.
Or take Minnesota Democrat Governor Tim Walz’s Nazi comparisons. At a keynote speech at the University of Minnesota Law School graduation ceremony last May, Walz called Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) law enforcement agents “Donald Trump’s modern-day gestapo.”
On January 25th, Governor Walz doubled down on his sickening rhetoric amidst chaos in the streets of Minneapolis that he helped to ignite. “We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank,” he said, adding that “somebody is going to write that children’s story about Minnesota.”
The next day, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum condemned Walz’s outrageous remark. “Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable,” the museum declared. “Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges.”
A few days later, Philadelphia’s George Soros-backed District Attorney Larry Krasner outdid Governor Walz, if that is possible. “This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis. That’s what they are,” DA Krasner claimed. “In a country of 350 million, we outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice.”
How about finding, prosecuting, and jailing real criminals for a change, Mr. Krasner?
Connecticut Democrat Representative John Larson screamed that ICE is “the SS” and “the Gestapo.”
Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal drew upon his father’s experience in Nazi Germany to draw parallels with what he asserts is happening today in America. “My father escaped Germany in 1935 and came to America after seeing what was to come in those same Gestapo-type tactics in Germany,” he said. If his Jewish father had chosen to remain living under the Nazi regime, Senator Blumenthal declared, “He would have seen paramilitary force going door to door, rounding up people just like him — exactly the kinds of tactics we now see unfolding. ICE, as a paramilitary force.”
Senator Blumenthal should be ashamed of himself for crassly using for political purposes the memory of his father’s harrowing experience in escaping Nazi Germany before it would have been too late to save his own life.
In a CNN interview, Massachusetts Representative Seth Moulton said, “I don’t think that the comparisons with Nazi Germany are extreme.” Not only are they extreme, Rep. Moulton. They despicably trivialize the true horrors inflicted on millions of innocent people by the Nazi regime.
Florida Democrat Representative Maxwell Frost, who supports mass amnesty and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, compared ICE operations to “the worst horrors and crimes against humanity in the history of not just this nation but the world.” That would include, in Rep. Frost’s addled mind, not only the Holocaust but also the millions murdered by the Communist tyrants Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot.
The list goes on.
The Left’s use of the term “racist” to smear its adversaries picked up considerable steam after the 2020 killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis. Floyd was turned into a martyr in the Left’s war to destroy what it charged was America’s “systemic racism” root and branch, making the police its prime target. Repeatedly, we heard chants of ‘’defund the police.” Democrat politicians climbed aboard the anti-police train.
Today, we are seeing a replay, except that the Left has elevated “Nazi” in its arsenal of attack words to incite mob rioting against federal agents, and the chants of “defund ICE” have replaced “defund the police.” Once again, the Left has created martyrs for its cause – in this case, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, who were killed by federal immigration law enforcement agents in Minnesota last month. The cause this time is to stop immigration law enforcement in its tracks and to reopen the border to more illegal immigrants. Now, Democrat politicians are climbing aboard the anti-ICE train.
“They started this fire and we are not going to give them credit for putting it out,” Governor Walz told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, even after Walz and President Trump had spoken about deescalating the tensions in Minneapolis. That’s rich coming from the governor whose fiery rhetoric helped to incite the current violence and who literally let fires burn in Minneapolis during the 2020 George Floyd riots rather than immediately call in the National Guard.
