Why Tim Walz Still Insists That You’re a Nazi
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has a “Neronian disposition.” At least that’s the hypothesis about the mindset of the former vice presidential candidate I offered in an article published on this site during the campaign, “Nero Fiddled and Tim Walzed as Their Cities Burned.” It’s a moniker I believed to be well-earned.
As the Daily Caller recently reported , the little Nero is at it once again. He is now proclaiming that “our country is being stolen by fascists and Nazis, and we’re trying to do all we can to try and [stop] that!”
For those keeping score at home, this is the same fella who has the infamous track record of instituting the abhorrent COVID-19 Cuomo Protocol while discriminately shutting down churches, and whose family opened the windows to soak in the smoke of BLM riots as if they were on vacation at a Turkish bathhouse. Yep, that’s who is comparing you to the 1930s German socialists (and who, by the way, announced yesterday he’d love to run for president in 2028).
But the endurance of the “Hitler” meme from Leftist leaders and media begs the question: What drives secularists like Walz back to this well of pablum time and again?
Why Secularists Think You’re A Nazi
The secular mind is an interesting phenomenon. It will take a militant posture about moral topics (for example, open borders and DEI) while simultaneously insisting that right and wrong are relativistic concepts.
They carry right along in oblivion despite defeating their own arguments — and the “Trump and conservatives are Nazis” meme is a perfect example of one of their favorite moral-laden pejoratives.
Using a logical syllogism, here’s how the secular mind arrives at the Nazi conclusion:
- If Hitler was a Nazi
- And Nazis were nationalists
- Then, all nationalists are Nazis
That’s the crux of their argument and the fruit of their self-proclaimed superior intellect.
Having found purchase in something that feels righteous, the secular mind will fight like a wild animal from its perceived moral high ground while paying no attention to the fact that its reasoning is riddled with fatal flaws.
The fact that Hitler was an ethnic-cleansing, crazy tyrant is, of course, indisputable. However, his powers and his Third Reich only came through a political ideology that allowed for significant control of human affairs, including full control of information and speech.
In other words, the noxious weed of Nazism could only be produced from ideological soil inclined to autocracy.
True Nazis Love Big Government
If follows that the first and critical hallmark of broad Nazism is domestic centralization of power – commerce, manufacturing, media – under the threat of legal punishment and/or coercive visits by agents of the government.
A high schooler with a modicum of historical sense could eviscerate Walz’s argument by simply pointing out that Nazism’s methods conceptually occupy the same dark alleyway as the methods of the modern American Left.
Both are punctuated by a mindset bent on centralizing power, diminishing civil liberties, controlling speech, and using lawfare and federal agents to coerce the citizenry into compliance.
In stark contrast is the Constitution, which stands in antithesis to Nazism. Any movement that seeks less government and more personal liberty, freedom of speech, and the protection thereof (as John Zmirak wonderfully explicates in his book, No Second Amendment, No First), is necessarily oppositional to the development of Nazism.
Rest assured, without a liberty-loathing Leftist ideological populace, Hitler would have been relegated to the status of an Andrew Tate-like controversial figure: a distasteful mooncalf that no serious human being should pay any attention to.
The Future Presidential Candidate?
Could Walz run for president in 2028? “I’ll do whatever it takes,” he said Monday when asked about becoming the future Democrat presidential nominee.
That’s not exactly comforting coming from a man who continues to paint President Trump and his supporters as “Nazis,” claimed to have “school shooter friends,” wants to abolish the electoral college, and famously said, “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
As Christians, we shouldn’t be surprised by the rhetoric of secularists like Walz. After all, the anthropocentric ideology of Babel is bound to pervade and, moreover, it will eventually grow into a Globalist leviathan during the End Times.
So let the socialists play their Trojan Horse game and dance to their Orwellian rhapsodies while chanting about “Nazis” and “fascists,” and we’ll bring reason and truth to the battlefield of the mind.
As we do, let’s have pity on their feeble logic — and more importantly, on their God-starved souls. As C.S. Lewis once wrote, “He who converts his neighbor has performed the most practical Christian-political act of all.”
Joachim Osther is a freelance writer focusing on the intersection of culture and Christianity. He holds a master’s degree in theological studies from Veritas College and Seminary, and two degrees in the life sciences, a field in which he works as a strategist, advisor, and published author. He has been published at American Thinker, and is an occasional contributor to RaymondIbrahim.com.