Byrd spokesman Tom Gavin denied that Byrd, D-W.Va., had compared Republicans to Hitler. He said that instead, the reference to Nazis in a Senate speech on Tuesday was meant to underscore that the past should not be ignored.
and then what did the kleagel say
“We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini’s Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men,” Byrd said. “But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.”
Byrd then quoted historian Alan Bullock, saying Hitler “turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.”
Byrd added, “That is what the nuclear option seeks to do.”
ok so saying the republicans are trying to do a similar tactic to hitler isn't compairing them to hitler
huh?
Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan as a young man and has repeatedly apologized for it. Now 87 and the Senate’s longest-serving member at 47 years, he prides himself on his knowledge of history and makes historical references frequently during debates.
Funny they don't mention how he lobbied for the Klan and continued to make rascist comments for many years after being a Klansman
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