Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) on Monday hammered the Republican Party for its refusal to condemn Donald Trump for describing his political opponents as "vermin."
While linking to a video clip of the Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel refusing to condemn Trump for his rhetoric, Cheney warned of the dark historical underpinnings that it entails.
"When [McDaniel] refuses to condemn the GOP’s leading candidate for using the same Nazi propaganda that mobilized 1930s-40s Germany to evil, it’s fair to assume she’s collaborating," she wrote on Twitter. "History will judge Ronna McDaniel and every Republican who is appeasing this dangerous man."
Cheney, once a staunch Republican partisan who fell out with her party over its reaction to Trump inciting a deadly riot at the United States Capitol building, is not the only political observer to call Trump out for espousing openly fascist rhetoric.
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Monday, for instance, accused Trump of going "full-on Hitler" while also pointing to Trump's recent remarks about immigrants "poisoning" the nation's bloodstream.
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung rejected such comparisons between his boss and Hitler, and followed it up by delivering an ominous threat to the former president's critics.
“Those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House," he said.
