House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn has compared the current attempts by the Republican party to contest the election results to 'what Hitler did in Germany'.
The South Carolina congressman was speaking with CNN's Chris Cuomo on Tuesday night when he claimed that he's beginning to see similarities between 1930s Germany and Trump's America.
The 80-year-old politician, who was born a year after the start of World War II, asked how a person elected could suddenly be given the 'authority to be a dictator'.
And he claimed that both Hitler and Trump 'discredited the news media' in attempts to get their way.
Yet he remained optimistic that the GOP would quickly end the 'foolishness' or else, Americans are less 'intelligent than I think they are'.
.@WhipClyburn (D-SC): “I’m beginning to see what happened in Germany back in the 1930s … I cannot see that happening here. It may happen, but if it did that means that the American people are much more — less, I should say, intelligent than I think they are.” pic.twitter.com/5sIut7r3Wh
— The Recount (@therecount) November 11, 2020
'I'm beginning to see what happened in Germany back in the 1930s, I never thought that would happen in this country,' Clyburn told Cuomo.
'How do you elect a person president and all of a sudden give him the authority to be a dictator. That's what we're dealing with around here.
'That's what Hitler did in Germany. He was elected Chancellor and then because he successfully discredited the news media, took over the churches,' the congressman continued.
'I cannot see that happening here. It may happen, but if it did that means that the American people are much more — less, I should say, intelligent than I think they are.'
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