'Snake in our midst': MSNBC guest parallels GOP white nationalism with Nazi Germany
Author Frank Shaefer during a Tuesday night appearance on MSNBC's The ReidOut warned viewers of the similarities between white nationalism and Nazi Germany.
Host Joy Reid spoke to the author of Why I am an Atheist who Believes in God about United States Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) recent tweet saying, "If the [President Joe] Biden admin refuses to stop the invasion of cartel-led human and drug trafficking into our country, states should consider seceding from the union. From Texas to New York City to every town in America, we are drowning from Biden’s traitorous America last border policies."
Reid suggested, "A member of Congress saying that 'We should secede from the union immigrants are not mistreated,'" is "not real biblical."
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Shaefer replied, "Yeah, Joy. Let me say, the introduction you gave with your trip to Ghana and the slave trade is really, sadly, the perfect background to address this subject. This week in Washington, there's a group meeting of Christian leaders, pray vote stand, at which Marjorie Taylor Greene, [ex-President] Donald Trump, [Florida Governor Ron] Desantis, and the rest of the crew will all speak. And this same group is very much aligned these days and is very much in line with the history of Christian conquests. They are not the anomaly. They are the norm. What is the anomaly is the wonderful breathing space we were given by the civil rights movement."
He continued, "What is the anomaly is this idea that somehow equality and freedom should coexist. You know, we're the only country on Earth right now that has even attempted a truly multiracial, multicultural society built on our broken history of slavery. that we have tried to move beyond. now these people, the republican party, this week pray vote stand, if you go online and look at their website, it reads like a primer on how to strip American democracy away and replace it with Christian nationalism, a theocracy that to anything we would recognize, indeed, much more akin to the women's fight in Iran against their government where they're raped in police stations."
The author emphasized, "Let's just remember something. [Hungary Prime Minister] Viktor Orban, who is the friend of all these people, a big fan of [ex-Fox News host] Tucker Carlson, who quotes him all the time and invites him over, has started to move his country towards an authoritarian model that fox news, Tucker Carlson, the Republican party, Donald Trump, all these others want to emulate here in America. And so sadly, and genuinely it breaks my heart. When I was listening to you talking about your trip to Ghana, this is not past history. This is now. And it is going to repeat here in the United States unless we crush, and I choose that word advisedly, this snake in our midst, of a combination of racism, white supremacy — which you pointed out so well in the segment before our little talk here — and the rise of Christian nationalism. This is all one and the same reactionary movement."
Shaefer concluded, "These people are holding hands across the distance of history, which as you rightly point out is not so long ago, with the slave trade. They are rolling us back into an era where what was unthinkable even 20 or 30 years ago in America is now becoming thinkable. It is no coincidence that there is also a rise of antisemitism, that [billionaire and "X" owner] Elon Musk, for instance, today, we have an echo of Henry Ford in 1920 who started an antisemitic newspaper railing against Jews. these things all go together. white nationalism, Christian nationalism, antisemitism, this is the world the Republican Trump cult has brought us, and every American who loves their country must stand up against these people with tooth and nail. It is a life-and-death struggle. This is not a moment for faltering."
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