“Whether you’re talking about Chairman Mao, whether you’re talking about Stalin,” Robinson said in a speech at the Moms for Liberty annual conference in Philadelphia on Sunday, “it is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes.” The remarks were published on Wednesday by Heartland Signal, a Twitter account monitoring politics in the Midwest.
Robinson, currently lieutenant governor, recently likened the current political climate in the U.S. to Nazi-era Germany and compared his political opponents to Hitler. He also veered into Holocaust denial, writing in a social media post that the “liberal media deliberately focuses on the topic of the Nazi and their purported murder of ‘6 million Jews’ for a specific purpose.
Moms for Liberty has advocated for book bans in school districts across the country. The gathering in Philadelphia featured prominent Republicans, including former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, among other GOP presidential candidates.
One of the organization’s chapters in Indiana came under fire last month and later apologized for quoting Adolf Hitler in a newsletter. The group’s citation of Hitler is not an isolated incident. Media Matters, a nonprofit group that monitors news outlets, on Friday shared images from a 2021 presentation in Flagler County, Florida, that juxtaposed quotes and images of both Hitler and Abraham Lincoln. The Hitler quote featured in the Moms for Liberty presentation — “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future!” — is the same line that appeared in a recent newsletter of the Indiana chapter
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