Appearing as a panel member on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, NBC News terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance was loaded with vitriol against everyone who voted for President Donald Trump.
After fearmongering about the possibility that ISIS-like pro-Trump paramilitary groups would form to revolt against a Joe Biden administration, the NBC analyst specifically accused all 69 million Americans who voted for Trump of being racists who have "fanaticism" which he likened to that of "Middle East terrorists."
He even invoked both the Rwanda genocide of the 1990s and the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany.
Early on in the segment, he compared the Trump family to that of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and his homicidal sons, Uday and Qusay:
MALCOLM NANCE, NBC NEWS TERRORISM ANALYST: We are going to have a serious problem. I'm going to give you doom and gloom. We are going to have a political paramilitary insurgency in which Donald Trump will be Saddam Hussein. We already got Uday and Qusay -- his sons and his daughters.
BILL MAHER: So you're saying military -- paramilitary -- in other words, not actual military like in these countries. You don't want to use the official military, so they have their Boogaloo Boys.
NANCE: Right. Boogaloo Boys, Proud Boys, the rest of the vanilla ISIS crew out there...
He added:
The problem is, these convoys that we saw in the runup to the election, what I'm most concerned about -- you know, these ISIS-like Trump convoys, a few hundred trucks out there -- what happens when somebody says, "We don't recognize Joe Biden's election," and those convoys become armed convoys, and they start blocking highways?
A bit later, further attacked every Trump voter:
Let me tell you something about the 69 million people that voted for Donald Trump. I'm going to channel my inner Eddie Glaude and Jason Johnson. They have been on air saying this. These people have revealed themselves for the racists that they are, for the tribalists that they are. They don't care about E pluribus unum -- from many, one. They care about, "I got mine, and, you know, you shouldn't get anything of yours."
After Maher injected, "You think that's every Trump voter?" Nance doubled down on attacking half the country: "They voted for this, consciously, knowing what Donald Trump stood for for the last four years. They know him, and they, look, they're almost a level of fanaticism I've only seen in some cult groups and Middle East terrorist groups."
After recalling the incitement that helped stoke mass murder in Rwanda in the 1990s, Nance further attacked Republicans: "Well, by next year, I suspect that the Republican party's main platform will be QAnon's platform, that, you know, "All liberals are a satanic cult and must be put to death." I see it now all the time. It's beyond the fringe."
Toward the end of the segment, referring to Republican leaders, the NBC analyst topped off his unhinged commentary with the latest batch of unoriginal Nazi comparisons:
NANCE: They have scholars who have justified everything that they're doing, okay? The same way that, you know, a certain regime in the 1930s and '40s justified everything they did. If you've ever seen the movie, Judgment at Nuremburg, that is about the supreme court of Nazi Germany on trial for passing laws to justify the genocide in Nazi Germany. Don't think that they're not going to do anything they say out loud. They will make an attempt.
MAHER: Right.
Below is a transcript of relevant portions of the Friday, November 6, Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO:
10:22 p.m. Eastern
MALCOLM NANCE, NBC NEWS TERRORISM ANALYST: As funny as all this seems, we are going to have a serious problem. I'm going to give you doom and gloom. We are going to have a political paramilitary insurgency in which Donald Trump will be Saddam Hussein. We already got Uday and Qusay -- his sons and his daughters.
BILL MAHER: So you're saying military -- paramilitary -- in other words, not actual military like in these countries. You don't want to use the official military, so they have their Boogaloo Boys.
NANCE: Right. Boogaloo Boys, Proud Boys, the rest of the vanilla ISIS crew out there, you know --
MAHER: The rough people. Remember, he calls them the "rough people." "We have the rough people." Bikers.
NANCE: Yeah. The problem is, these convoys that we saw in the runup to the election, what I'm most concerned about -- you know, these ISIS-like Trump convoys, a few hundred trucks out there -- what happens when somebody says, "We don't recognize Joe Biden's election," and those convoys become armed convoys, and they start blocking highways?
(...)
10:28 p.m.
NANCE: This is why I was saying this is more like a paramilitary, political paramilitary --
BILL MAHER: Yeah.
NANCE: -- insurgency. Phase one insurgency starts off with disgruntlement within a certain population, and then the support of terrorists or a paramilitary --
MAHER: The Sunnis -- the fired Baath party.
NANCE: You know, I have said this many times this week -- we are looking at Baghdad, April, 2003, where the Baath party disappears after they all lose their jobs --
MAHER: Right.
NANCE: And there is no Iraqi army anymore, and we think we've occupied this country. And then, out of nowhere, comes this low-grade insurgency. Granted, a lot of these guys were a bunch of rubes with rifles, okay? And this is why we fund SWAT teams, right, to handle people who are going to work outside of the law. But, in their mind -- and this goes to what Tristan (Harris) was saying -- they live in an alternate reality, which has been crafted by their own propaganda, which has been using this social media distribution system to allow them to believe that their America is the "We, the people" America of the revolution. And, I'm sorry, these guys think they are the Sons of Liberty.
MAHER: Oh, I know they do.
NANCE: I've seen people say --
MAHER: The snake flag.
NANCE: Yeah, "We should tar and feather people."
MAHER: Yeah.
NANCE: Let me tell you something about the 69 million people that voted for Donald Trump. I'm going to channel my inner Eddie Glaude and Jason Johnson. They have been on air saying this. These people have revealed themselves for the racists that they are, for the tribalists that they are. They don't care about E pluribus unum -- from many, one. They care about, "I got mine, and, you know, you shouldn't get anything of yours."
MAHER: You think that's every Trump voter?
NANCE: They voted for this, consciously, knowing what Donald Trump stood for for the last four years. They know him, and they, look, they're almost a level of fanaticism I've only seen in some cult groups and Middle East terrorist groups.
(...)
10:33 p.m.
NANCE: Let me tell you some spy stuff -- I worked a Rwanda mission back when Rwanda had its genocide. And in the runup to that, in French language, all the broadcasts from Radio Mille Collines --
MAHER: Cockroaches.
NANCE: -- was using what we call eliminationist rhetoric.
MAHER: Vermin, yeah, that kind of thing.
NANCE: Eliminationist rhetoric.
MAHER: Hitler stuff.
NANCE: I see that rhetoric every day, all day, as I monitor right-wing sites. And the thing is, it's now starting to percolate up into the mainstream of the Republican party.
MAHER: QAnons in Congress.
NANCE: Well, by next year, I suspect that the Republican party's main platform will be QAnon's platform, that, you know, "All liberals are a satanic cult and must be put to death." I see it now all the time. It's beyond the fringe.x
(...)
10:42 p.m.
NANCE: This goes back to your point about "Maybe they're going to have a come-to-Jesus moment -- maybe they're all going to sit together and decide that maybe, you know, "We're not going to do anything this time -- we're going to work with Biden." This is not happening, okay? It's not. Hard reality time, people. I mean, what's happening here, for every idiot they have in a leadership, they have two very intelligent people who make money off of that idiot. And they have lawyers -- they have scholars who have justified everything that they're doing, okay? The same way that, you know, a certain regime in the 1930s and '40s justified everything they did.
If you've ever seen the movie, Judgment at Nuremburg, that is about the supreme court of Nazi Germany on trial for passing laws to justify the genocide in Nazi Germany. Don't think that they're not going to do anything they say out loud. They will make an attempt.
MAHER: Right.
