At 7:00 AM Eastern Time on Saturday, MSNBC officially rebranded to MS Now, and before lunchtime it had already hurled its first Nazi comparison. The offending party was Prof. Jason Stanley, who told Ali Velshi that local police departments need to thwart ICE just like a local policeman thwarted the SA, or Brownshirts, during Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany.
Stanley huffed that, “ICE is lawless. And there does not seem to be any way of, as it were, policing ICE’s behavior. And that brings me to another point, which is that local police are really important here. And we learned about this from history as well. My grandmother talks about how on Kristallnacht in Germany, a local policeman helped a Jewish citizen escape from the SA.”
The absolute worst-case scenario is that ICE arrests someone who is a citizen and has to release them. That is regrettable, but it is not in the same universe as a massacre that saw nearly 100 people killed, 30,000 arrested for simply being Jewish, and 267 synagogues destroyed.
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