YOU STAY CLASSY, GAVIN: Gavin Newsom Goes Too Far, Compares Stephen Miller to an SS Agent—Hitler’s Notorious ‘Schutzstaffel.’
We’ve mostly stayed away from the juvenile and unfunny “Governor Newsom Press Office” social media account, because even though it’s official, it’s frankly just insipid. Apparently, some staffers think it’s really funny to have the far-left governor talk like Trump, but it doesn’t work because it has none of the humor of Trump and is completely out of character with the wooden Newsom, who in reality talks like an AI chatbot.
But their silliness crossed the line of decency Monday when they made a post comparing White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who is Jewish, to a member of the SS—the Schutzstaffel, Adolf Hitler’s sadistic personal police force. Although the post was made earlier in the week, it’s getting renewed scrutiny as domestic terror attacks continue throughout the country, including the fatal shooting at an ICE detention center on Wednesday night.
Exit quote: “Referring to a Jew as a Nazi is widely considered a form of Holocaust denial, as well as antisemitic, because it can — as in this instance — indicate an intent to invert the identities of the perpetrators and the victims of the Nazis’ crimes against humanity.”
