Some of President Donald Trump's allies have begun to sound increasingly like one of history's most infamous propagandists, and those comments provide a "perfect window" into the MAGA movement's "evil" core, according to a GOP strategist.
Steve Schmidt, political strategist and co-founder of The Lincoln Project, argued in a new Substack essay on Sunday that some Trump allies have started mimicking the talking points of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels when talking about social services fraud committed by Somalis. He pointed to statements from people like Stephen Miller, the president's deputy chief of staff for policy, and podcasters Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly. As Schmidt argued, "hate is what binds the Nazis and MAGA."
"Goebbels explained to the world why the Nazis hated the Jews," Schmidt wrote. "It is a perfect window into why MAGA hates the Somalis, for example, and why JD Vance smeared Haitian immigrants in a peaceful Ohio town as 'eating pets,' which was a pristine example of a Nazi calumny."
That tie was on full display on January 9 when the Department of Homeland Security posted a recruitment ad on social media that included the phrase, "we'll have our home again," Schmidt's essay noted, a phrase that the Toronto Holocaust Museum has said comes from a white nationalist song.
"Let us stop pretending that we cannot say out loud what we know is true," Schmidt wrote. "The Nazis and the MAGAs fit together like a hand and glove."
