Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said former President Donald Trump’s Republican Party is reminiscent of Nazi Germany’s murderous regime, offering the incendiary comparison during his State of the State address to Californians.
Widely regarded as one of the Democratic Party’s rising stars, Newsom weighed the resemblance between Trump's GOP and Hitler’s fascist party during a speech Tuesday.
“When they speak of immigrants poisoning American blood, and of mass deportations and detention camps, this is the language of destruction, of 1939, when Governor Olson issued his warning," Newsom said.
The first half of his statement referenced controversial comments Trump made during an Iowa rally last year. The latter part refers to another California governor who, in 1939, warned his state about the dangers posed to democracy as Hitler marched across Europe.
“They're destroying the blood of our country,” Trump said in December 2023.
The former president was discussing illegal immigrants, and he clarified who he was referring to as he spoke to crowds of roaring Iowans the week before Christmas. “They're coming from all over the world … We have no idea — they could be healthy, they could be very unhealthy. They could bring in disease that's going to catch on in our country."
The former president added it was a top priority to get "mass numbers" of them out, "especially the criminals."
Trump expressed concern about other nations unloading citizens they deem undesirable into the United States, though it appeared there was no direct evidence of this.
“They're coming from jails, prisons. They're coming from mental institutions … they're emptying out the insane asylums from all over the world … Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico. They're emptying out their prisons into our country,” Trump warned during his rally.
At the time, Trump responded to criticism over similar language he had used about "poisoning the blood" of the country.
"They don't like it when I said that," Trump said, noting he had never read Mein Kampf, Hitler's manifesto.
Trump defended his comments, saying he meant them "in a much different way" than the Nazi leader.
Newsom argued Trump’s remarks are, in fact, similar to Hitler’s belief that Jews and other demographics polluted pure Aryan blood. In total, 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime.
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Newsom’s speech Tuesday reminded his state of former Democratic California Gov. Culbert Olson, who issued a grave warning as the U.S. watched much of Europe either fall under Hitler’s fascist spell or placate him. Olson, who was elected as California’s governor on the eve of WWII, used his inaugural address to warn of the “destruction of democracy elsewhere in the world, accompanied by denial of civil liberties and inhuman persecutions, under the rule of despots and dictators, so extreme as to shock the moral sense of mankind.”
The “antidote” to the new fascism, “the poisonous populism of the right,” Newsom claims, is Democrats' liberal ideals.
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