2020 presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke described President Trump’s rally last week in North Carolina as “almost an impromptu Nuremberg rally.”
The rally featured the now-famous “send her back” chants directed toward Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar. The chants, which have been widely condemned, including by Trump himself after the backlash, followed a string of attacks the president made against her and some of her liberal colleagues.
“Yes, President Trump is a racist,” the former House member said to ABC News’ The Briefing Room when asked if he thought the president is racist.
“What we saw in North Carolina last week was almost an impromptu Nuremberg rally inciting hatred, and, ultimately, I think implicit in that is violence against people based on the color of their skin, based on their religion, based on their difference from the majority of Americans,” O’Rourke added.
O’Rourke’s comparison to the Nazis is the most recent in a long line of similar analogies. Last month, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a statement denouncing such a comparison when some were likening the U.S. migrant detention on the southern border to concentration camps.
“The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary. That position has repeatedly and unambiguously been made clear in the Museum’s official statement on the matter – a statement that is reiterated and reaffirmed now,” the museum said at the time.
