🧵I hate that I have to talk about this. I hate that this is where we’re at. But no one is raising the right alarm: not our leaders, not our media, and not enough people here on Twitter.
We are quickly approaching 1930s Germany, and I refuse to pretend we can’t see it. /1
After WWII, German pastor Martin Niemöller spoke about what he considered his complicity at the start of Hitler’s regime. You might have read this quote before…
In our case, first they came for women - and it’s not just abortion bans. /2
Lawmakers have introduced bills that would ban IVF and allow law enforcement to track women’s pregnancies, to prosecute women who even consider abortion.
We know they won’t stop at women’s rights. Just look at the terms they want to ban. It’s page 4 in Project 2025. /3
Reading this, I want to know how anyone could believe that BANNING WORDS is how you protect freedom of speech (i.e. "First Amendment rights”). /4
They’re coming for women. Trans people. Gay people. Black people. And they’re going to build detention centers and militarize police departments to grab immigrants like Hitler rounded up Jews in Poland.
Hitler’s first plan was deportation, btw - and he too put kids in cages. /5
When you look deeper into Project 2025 and the groups behind it – groups like the Council for National Policy – you know it’s not just our rights on the line.
It’s our jobs, our entertainment, our literature, our history, and every aspect of society that we consider normal. /6
To be clear, this threat is coming from the very top of the Republican Party, NOT from every Republican politician and certainly not most Republican voters.
It’s coming from the extremist groups that played the long game and took over the GOP like Hitler took over Germany. /7
Do you know what Hitler did before he went after Jewish people in Eastern Europe? He got leverage in the government and negotiated his way into more power than he could be trusted with, like Trump did in the GOP.
Then he targeted his political opponents. /8
Politicians, activists, and even unelected government officials associated with any party to the left of the Nazi Party faced harassment, violent attacks, imprisonment, and even death if they didn’t leave Nazi Germany.
This is the GOP today. /9
These people have to be stopped. They cannot be allowed to try Project 2025 again in four years.
My opponent votes with the Heritage Foundation 70-85% of the time each year. Can you pitch in $12 to help me flip OH-12 and get him out? secure.actblue.com/donate/j_twitt…
If we lose this election and fail to flip the House, you should know what’s coming.
Don’t expect a woman to ever have the chance to run for president again.
Don’t expect America to ever be “great again.” /13
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