Rep. Miller should resign, but not for Hitler comment

 

  

I’m a lifelong free speech libertarian who posts provocative comments on our political culture every day. So I give my fellow commentators a wide berth of free speech freedom, unless they cross the line into obscenity or incitement to bad behavior, especially violence.

 

That’s why I oppose the flood of calls from political leaders and organizations for newly minted House Representative Mary Miller (IL-15) to resign for this quote at a ‘Moms’ For America’ rally in DC Tuesday, supporting Trump’s effort to overturn the election:

 

“If we win a few elections, we’re still going to be losing unless we win the hearts and minds of our children. This is the battle. Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.”

 

It’s clearly an inartful Hitler analogy, one that can be easily misconstrued as praising Hitler. It’s just as likely Miller used the ‘H’ word simply to scare her crowd of ‘Moms For America’ about the threat of Democrats propagandizing their precious youth to keep patriotic Republicans from power. On its face the statement was harmless, tho some found it offensive and unbecoming of a congressperson.

But she should resign, along with the other 146 House members and 6 Senators, who voted to assist Trump’s treason in overturning the election. It took a catastrophic riot of Trump supporters resulting in 5 deaths, many injuries and one the worst ever domestic assaults on our government, for Trump to drop his 2 month treason against the American electoral process.

However long Miller serves, she will be more remembered for the T word of treason than the H word of Hitler.

 

Give free speech a very wide berth. But squeeze treason into oblivion.