Yeah, no.
This is disgusting and obscene, but unfortunately what we’ve come to expect from the Trump-haters.
Via Daily Wire.
On Sunday, Benjamin Wittes,a journalist who is the Co-Director of the Harvard Law School – Brookings Project on Law and Security, chief editor of the Lawfare blog and a good pal of former FBI director James Comey, issued a lengthy Twitter thread in which he compared President Trump’s firing of various officials and targeting others as reminiscent of the Nazis murdering people in the Holocaust….
Wittes comparison to the Holocaust was obviously cribbing from the famous poem by Martin Niemöller, a prominent Lutheran pastor in Germany who spoke out against Adolf Hitler and spent 1938-1945 in Nazi concentration camps. His post-war poem read:
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for meWittes’ version read like this:
First he came for @comey, and I said nothing because I was mad at @comey because of the Clinton email investigation and I blamed him for Trump’s election.
Then he came for Andy McCabe and I said nothing because there was this inspector general report that said McCabe lacked candor.
Then he came for Jim Baker and I said nothing because I had never heard of Jim Baker and the FBI director is entitled to his own leadership team anyway.
Then he came for @NatSecLisa and @petestrzok and I said nothing because they sent text messages and the president and Fox News kept reminding me that they had an affair…..
Invoking the Martin Niemöller poem about the victims of Nazism in defense of a bunch of security state technocrats who were re-assigned or fired and then profited greatly from it is repugnant but unsurprising.
Security state agents are at the lead victim group among some: https://t.co/fYQHErydfc
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 9, 2020
An absurd, offensive thread on every level, but among the most delusional aspects is his conceit that “I said nothing” applies to these cases-
Insane lib journos/Democrats spent 3 years talking *incessantly* about all of this, were constantly wrong, and always just doubled down https://t.co/g72fZ40Ttc
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) February 9, 2020
Ironically, the post war poem is on point and applicable to those democrats and No Trumpers suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)and their failure to speak out against the lies and misrepresentations of the democratic party, No Trumpers and their media arm, as well as, all their failures to speak out against the physical violence that is incited by democrats and No Trumpers against Trump and his supporters.