{"id":5173,"date":"2025-10-22T08:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:20:43","slug":"a-deep-dive-into-gov-pritzkers-authoritarian-warning-that-warns-about-authoritarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/2025\/10\/22\/a-deep-dive-into-gov-pritzkers-authoritarian-warning-that-warns-about-authoritarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"A Deep Dive into Gov. Pritzker&#8217;s Authoritarian Warning That&#8230; Warns About Authoritarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5174\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/2025\/10\/22\/a-deep-dive-into-gov-pritzkers-authoritarian-warning-that-warns-about-authoritarianism\/0610-npritzker-lede\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5174\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5174\" src=\"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0610-NPRITZKER-LEDE-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0610-NPRITZKER-LEDE-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0610-NPRITZKER-LEDE-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0610-NPRITZKER-LEDE-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0610-NPRITZKER-LEDE-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0610-NPRITZKER-LEDE-850x567.jpg 850w, https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0610-NPRITZKER-LEDE.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks in one of the exhibits at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, Illinois, June 4, 2025. Governor Pritzker is a major supporter of the museum.<br \/>Melanie Stetson Freeman\/Monitor Staff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>You Have to Be KIDDING Me?!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Oh boy, where do we even START with this one, folks?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Gov. Pritzker Compares Trump\u2019s Illegal Immigration Crackdown to How the Holocaust Started<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore the Holocaust took place, people were accused of being immigrants \u2026 and then it was othering people. And that led to a lot worse things.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z1WyQU72jS\">pic.twitter.com\/Z1WyQU72jS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheChiefNerd\/status\/1980953468731887664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What in the <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>delusional fear-mongering<\/b><\/span> is this?! Governor Pritzker, you&#8217;ve decided the best way to critique a political opponent is to haul out the most sacred, horrific tragedy in modern history\u2014the <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>Holocaust<\/b><\/span>\u2014and use it as a cheap political prop! What the heck is wrong with these people, turning a comparison to the Nazi regime into their go-to script for political criticism?!<\/p>\n<p>The irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife made of self-awareness, which apparently was not available at this particular speaking engagement.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Or even this recent post&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christian Science Monitor:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/2025\/0613\/jb-pritzker-holocaust-antisemitism-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How JB Pritzker\u2019s faith and Holocaust work are powering his dire warnings about Trump<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As he walks through the Illinois Holocaust Museum &amp; Education Center he helped create, Gov. JB Pritzker pauses in the very first exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>The narrow hall of photos and headlines about the Nazis\u2019 rise to power isn\u2019t as emotionally heavy as other parts of the museum, like the German railcar of the kind used to deport people to the concentration camps, or the room of remembrance, which lists the names of some of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>But he has a point to make.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Pritzker has emerged as one of the loudest Democratic voices sounding the alarm about what he sees as the authoritarian tendencies of the Trump administration. And increasingly, he\u2019s put his own personal story at the center of his argument. He has drawn on his family\u2019s history as Jewish refugees, and his decade working on Holocaust issues, to warn in stark terms about the administration\u2019s aggressive moves to crack down on immigrants and suppress dissent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s break down this masterclass in projection, shall we?<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The &#8220;I Know About Authoritarianism Because Museums&#8221; Defense<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Pritzker opens the interview with his credentials: he helped build a Holocaust museum; therefore, he&#8217;s the expert on spotting creeping fascism. You know what? That&#8217;s lovely. Museums are great. But here&#8217;s the thing\u2014<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>sitting next to Holocaust survivors doesn&#8217;t automatically make you the arbiter of what constitutes the next Third Reich any more than visiting the Air and Space Museum makes you an astronaut.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The &#8220;They&#8217;re Calling People Immigrants&#8221; Panic<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Then we get to the meat of his argument: <em>&#8220;People got accused of being immigrants&#8230; then laws were passed to limit immigrants&#8230; then people who weren&#8217;t actually immigrants were called immigrants.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wait, wait, WAIT. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Is the governor seriously suggesting that having immigration laws is the first step toward genocide?<\/strong><\/span> That distinguishing between citizens and non-citizens is&#8230; Nazi-adjacent? What country has he been governing? Does Illinois not have borders? Do they just let the organizational concept of &#8220;immigration&#8221; float away like a dandelion seed because acknowledging it might be problematic?<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The Enemy at Your Table<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>But here&#8217;s where it gets truly <em>chef&#8217;s kiss<\/em>: He warns that authoritarian regimes create the idea that <em>&#8220;there&#8217;s an enemy out there and it could be sitting next to you at one of these tables.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Governor. SIR. You are LITERALLY at a table telling people that Trump supporters (presumably half the country) are the enemy. You&#8217;re literally saying <em>&#8220;this is what authoritarians do&#8221;<\/em> while DOING THE THING. The call is coming from inside the house!<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>&#8220;They Other People&#8221; Says Man Currently Othering People<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><em>&#8220;They other people and that led to a lot worse things,&#8221;<\/em> he says, apparently without the slightest awareness that he&#8217;s currently engaged in a TED Talk about why the Other Political Tribe is leading us down the path to fascism.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The Humble Brag Exit<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>And then\u2014THEN\u2014he ends with <em>&#8220;I can&#8217;t not speak out about that,&#8221;<\/em> like he&#8217;s some brave truth-teller risking everything rather than a governor with full security detail speaking to what is almost certainly a friendly audience.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The Bottom Line<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what kills me: There are legitimate conversations to be had about executive overreach, civil liberties, and the balance between security and freedom. But THIS? This is just<em> &#8220;everyone I don&#8217;t like is Hitler&#8221;<\/em> with extra steps and a museum credential thrown in.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>If you&#8217;re going to warn about authoritarianism, maybe\u2014and I&#8217;m just spitballing here\u2014don&#8217;t do it by painting half the country as nascent Nazis who need to be identified and resisted.<\/strong><\/span> Because THAT, Governor, is actually closer to the playbook you claim to be fighting against.<\/p>\n<p>But what do I know? I didn&#8217;t help build a museum.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>And if that wasn&#8217;t enough &#8230; THERE&#8217;S THIS:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: Democrats are planning to launch a &#8220;master&#8221; ICE-tracker on their website. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aYbtH36kJF\">pic.twitter.com\/aYbtH36kJF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1980988932616864228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Have to Be KIDDING Me?! Oh boy, where do we even START with this one, folks? Gov. Pritzker Compares Trump\u2019s Illegal Immigration Crackdown to How the Holocaust Started \u201cBefore the Holocaust took place, people were accused of being immigrants \u2026 and then it was othering people. And that led to a lot worse things.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-dishonesty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}