“I can hear the glass crunching on Kristallnacht in the ghettos of Warsaw and Vienna when I hear that, honest.”
So said former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld. What drew that hideous description? Donald J. Trump’s proposal to round up 11 million illegal immigrants and deport them to their country of origin.
Weld, though, just isn’t any former politician. He is about to become a vice-presidential candidate seeking election on a Libertarian Party ticket led by former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson.
Weld’s reference is to Adolf Hitler’s persecution of Jews in Europe.
I’ve already lamented the careless references to Hitler and to the atrocities he committed prior to and during World War II.
This is another such reference.
I’ve already noted in this blog that I am giving the first hint of consideration to a third-party ticket when I get ready to vote for president this fall.
What’s more, I happen to think highly of Gov. Weld, the former Republican governor of the Bay State — and of Gov. Johnson, another Republican.
https://highplainsblogger.com/2016/05/third-party-looking-more-like-an-option-really/
I do not wish to hear more of these Hitler references, though, when discussing Trump’s moronic idea of rounding up every illegal immigrant and booting them out of the country.
It’s unrealistic, cruel, and un-American.
The idiocy of this idea can produce plenty of arguments against without referencing Hitler.