Republican lawmakers have been screaming for weeks that anybody who calls their occasion fascist is chargeable for political violence throughout the nation.
And but, on Wednesday, a GOP lawmaker from Ohio was caught with a swastika in his workplace—a logo appropriated by Adolf Hitler’s’ Nazi Occasion and one which white supremacists proceed to make use of as an indication of their hatred at present.
Republican Rep. Dave Taylor of Ohio denounced the swastika, which was noticed on Wednesday on a wall within the background of a videoconferencing name {that a} constituent had with one among Taylor’s congressional aides. The swastika appeared as a part of an altered American flag, with the flag’s crimson stripes forming a swastika within the center.
In a press launch, Taylor known as the image “vandalism.”
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A good friend in DC had a Zoom name with Congressman Dave Taylor’s workplace at present…
Taylor’s legislative correspondent, Angelo Elia, had what can solely be described as an American swastika flag prominently displayed in his background. pic.twitter.com/zFn3QowS0c
— The Rooster (@rooster_ohio) October 15, 2025
“I am aware of an image that appears to depict a vile and deeply inappropriate symbol near an employee in my office. The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms,” Taylor said in a statement. “Upon learning of this matter, I immediately directed a thorough investigation alongside Capitol Police, which remains ongoing. No further comment will be provided until it has been completed.”
Let’s not neglect when right-wing billionaire Elon Musk—a former member of the Trump administration—carried out a Nazi salute whereas talking at an indoor inauguration occasion in Washington on Jan. 20.
That is simply the most recent occasion by which Republicans have been proven to visitors in Nazi symbols and rhetoric.
On Tuesday, Politico printed a report on a gaggle chat between GOP operatives by which they fantasized about placing their opponents in fuel chambers, like Hitler did in the course of the Holocaust, and spewed racist and antisemitic rhetoric, amongst different despicable feedback.
Relatively than condemn the chat, Republicans like Vice President JD Vance wrote it off as a dialog between “college” college students, despite the fact that lots of the group chat’s members had been of their 20s and 30s and labored in Republican politics, within the White Home, and whilst elected officers.
On the finish of the day, the Trump administration is unequivocally fascist.
Simply take a look at the Merriam-Webster definition of fascism:
A populist political philosophy, motion, or regime (equivalent to that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and infrequently race above the person, that’s related to a centralized autocratic authorities headed by a dictatorial chief, and that’s characterised by extreme financial and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition.
That’s precisely what President Donald Trump is doing.
He’s searching for to rid the nation of immigrants of shade, sending in his masked goons to violently abduct folks they think are undocumented primarily based on their complexion.
Federal officers maintain down a protester within the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago on Oct. 4.
Trump can also be transferring to amend the refugee coverage to favor white individuals who declare, with out proof, to be persecuted of their nations for espousing racist opposition to immigration, The New York Occasions reported on Wednesday.
In actual fact, the Division of Homeland Safety on Tuesday posted on X the phrase “Remigrate,” a time period utilized by international far-right teams that requires the mass deportation of migrants in an effort to protect a white society.
Trump can also be forcibly suppressing opposition by utilizing the Division of Justice and different levers of presidency to hamstring and prosecute Democrats and Democratic teams, with out credible proof of wrongdoing.
The Wall Road Journal on Wednesday evening reported that Trump is planning on having the Inner Income Service examine progressive nonprofit teams, an effort to maintain them from with the ability to oppose his agenda.
Fascism is right here in America—each in Republican insurance policies and even apparently on the partitions of Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Lord assist us.