When the left runs out of substantive arguments, they pull out the same tired talking points. Chicago’s far-left, radical mayor, Brandon Johnson, is the latest example.
During his weekly press conference, Johnson claimed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is “an act of war” and that the Trump administration is similar to “the Third Reich.”
Johnson claimed Chicago is the most “pro-worker” city in the U.S., but is facing “hostility” from Washington.
Johnson whined, “The fact that the President of the United States of America is cutting off food supply and medicine to working people and families across this country — that is an act of war.”
“And we’re going to need leaders who are prepared and willing to stand up for working people, because this battle has reached our front doors all across America where people are struggling and suffering. And in order to alleviate that pain and discomfort, it’s going to require bold leadership. We can’t tippy toe.”
A reporter asked how Chicago can with the Trump administration for the benefit of the city with an adversarial position, Johnson referred to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s State of the State address in February, where he remarked that it “took the Nazi’s one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a Constitutional Republic.”
“Governor Pritzker… offered up a warning,” Johnson stated.
“You have a president that is cutting off medicine and food, a president that is working to erase culture. I mean, you can’t make this up. He’s doing it in plain sight.”
Johnson expanded on the ‘everything I disagree with is literally Hitler’ rhetoric noting how an “entire nation and or globe” questioned how Germany could have descended into Nazism and anti-Semitism so quickly and suggested Trump is “carry(ing) out the playbook that was done against an entire people-group.”
“He’s doing it right here in this country,” he continued, “against working people, erasing Black folks from museums and the history and the culture. So, when you ask how we balance that, you have to fight it and resist it with everything that’s in you.”
“The President of the United States of America is capturing the hopes and aspirations of working people and holding us hostage as he works to implement and annihilate democracy.”
“When you ask how we balance that, you have to fight it and resist it with everything that is in you.”
Watch (relevant comments begin at 55:00)
