“No, I have not. That is completely false. I have never called Republicans Nazis.”
The backtracking is stunning, as if the Governor forgot that his interviews are on camera. His own past remarks tell a very different story:
February 2025 — Illinois State of the State and Budget Address
“If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.”
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February 2025 — Appearance on The View
“And everything that he has done has been tearing down constitutional democracy and that’s what happened in Nazi Germany.”
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February 2025 — Appearance on CNN
“Well we’re talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That’s what happened in Germany in 1933 and 1934.”
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August 2025 — Press Conference
“The Nazis in Germany in the 30’s tore down a constitutional republic in just 53 days. It does not take much frankly, and we have a President who seems hell bent on doing just that.”
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Governor Pritzker can’t outrun the tape. Illinois deserves a leader who owns his words and lowers the temperature, not someone who rewrites history when it suits him.