One of the major rules of politics is don’t compare anything to the Holocaust because you look like a fool. And that’s exactly what MSNBC’s far-left “historian” Douglas Brinkley did during Thursday’s January 6 festivities on Craig Melvin Reports. And not only did he compare the riot at the Capitol to the systematic killing of 6 million Jews, but he also declared America in a “neo-civil war” and warned of “dark, troubled times” ahead.
Brinkley kicked off his ridiculous comments by praising Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) as having “become our true profiles in courage.” Adding: “The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation every year gives an award. It should go to her,” and compared her to President Abraham Lincoln.
Next came his gross comparison to the Holocaust where he compared video of the riot to then-General Eisenhower documenting the concentration camps to counter deniers. “But we have film footage of what happened on January 6, we have proof. Dwight Eisenhower, during World War II, made sure all the Holocaust camps were filmed. So, we’ve got the film footage,” he bragged.
And following the example of every other half-baked, wannabe luminary on Twitter, Brinkley announced that he agreed the riot was also like 9/11 and Pearl Harbor and argued January 6 needed a special name:
But my worry is what do we call this and make sure we honor this day, this dark stained day every year. So, we’ve got to keep saying January 6. I think this is like December 7 Pearl Harbor, it is like the 9/11 tragedy, and we also have need to not be afraid to call it the Trump Insurrection of January 6. Because in the end, all roads to what went wrong that day lead to Donald Trump’s ill behavior, his anti-democratic stance he took, the big lie, after the presidential election tallies came in and Joe Biden had won by millions of votes.
January 6 has been described as 9/11, Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, and Gettysburg. Is this the new Chrismahanukwanzakah? Just cramming everything together.
Further, Brinkley warned that we could be witnessing the “birth of a type of native authoritarianism.” And his advice to counter it was that “January 6 has to be a crusade that’s every day as The New York Times op-ed said every day is January 6.”
What he meant was every day until the midterm election because Democrats are only using the day to forward their own political machinations. And that’s why the liberal media and the left wanted to federalize America’s election system:
We’ve got to secure free and fair elections; that's the heart and soul of our democracy. That is a great export, we’re the world’s oldest democracy. And if we don’t defend that, we're in dark, troubled times.
Ironically, host Craig Melvin whined that “You’ve a lot of folks now, dozens of people, who are trying to use what happened at the Capitol on January 6 to win elections.” He was talking about people who had attended so-called “Stop the Steal” rallies.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
MSNBC’s Craig Melvin Reports
January 6, 2022
11:55:59 a.m. EasternCRAIG MELVIN: And Doug, let me start with you. Congresswoman Cheney invoking history in her comments this morning. Do you think she's right that history is going to judge those who minimize or even deny what happened a year ago?
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY: Absolutely, she's right. Liz Cheney has become our true profiles in courage. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation every year gives an award. It should go to her. She reminds us of brave Republicans in the past like Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, Margaret Chase Smith, John McCain.
But we have film footage of what happened on January 6, we have proof. Dwight Eisenhower, during World War II made sure all the Holocaust camps were filmed. So, we’ve got the film footage. So, now we’re combating conspiracy theorists, deniers, and some Trumpateers.
But my worry is what do we this and make sure honor this day, this dark stained day every year. So, we’ve got to keep saying January 6. I think this is like December 7 Pearl Harbor, it is like the 9/11 tragedy, and we need to not be afraid to call it the Trump Insurrection of January 6. Because in the end, all roads to what went wrong that day lead to Donald Trump’s ill behavior, his anti-democratic stance he took, the big lie, after the presidential election tallies came in and Joe Biden had won by millions of votes.
MELVIN: Michael Steele, it’s not just folks who are trying to downplay it. You’ve a lot of folks now, dozens of people, who trying to use what happened at the Capitol on January 6 to win elections. Politico reporting, quote, “at least 57 individuals who played a role in that day's events – either by attending the Save America rally that proceeded the riots, gathering at the Capitol steps or breaching the Capitol itself – are now running for elected office.”
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11:54:18 a.m. Eastern
MELVIN: With these kinds of divisions and the possibility, Doug, that people who literally storm the Capitol could start winning elections, what would that signal to you?
BRINKLEY: It would signal the death of democracy. The birth of a type of native authoritarianism. And it’s quite frightening and its why Michael Steele said we’ve got to push back, the people got to push back now.
January 6 has to be a crusade that’s every day as The New York Times op-ed said every day is January 6. Meaning, its not just about voting in the United States. But we have to make sure our elections aren’t sabotaged, or there is not subversion, that there’s not sorts of wild-eyed gerrymandering going on behind our backs.
Right now our secretaries of states in different states are under attack. There are death threats going on to public officials. So, we are in a real neo-civil war and it’s a battle between democracy versus a kind of nativist authoritarianism.
And its why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are headed to Atlanta. They didn’t connect the dots today, but they're going to promote the John Lewis Voting Rights. We’ve got to secure free and fair elections; that's the heart and soul of our democracy. That is a great export, we’re the world’s oldest democracy. And if we don’t defend that, we're in dark, troubled times.
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