Hard-left Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) once again showed the country just how unhinged her rhetoric has become, doubling down on her claim that President Donald Trump is a “wannabe Hitler,” defending her word choice as “accurate” in a CNN interview on Sunday.
Crockett, a darling of the progressive Left and a fixture on MSNBC, first made the comparison on July 20 during an appearance on “Alex Witt Reports.” In that segment, she accused the GOP of being complicit in shielding Trump, declaring: “We have someone that is occupying the White House, and, as far as I’m concerned, he is an enemy to the United States. … I have called him so many things, but this wannabe Hitler, for sure.”
Rather than walk back the Adolf Hitler comparison — an absurd and grotesque minimization of real historic evil — Crockett leaned in. Pressed by CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” on Sunday about whether elected officials should avoid inflammatory rhetoric in an age of increasing political violence, Crockett responded:
I think that my responsibility is to be transparent and to be honest. And the reality is that we are living in a time in which this administration and this regime is not interested in making sure that people understand history. We need to understand why they are so problematic. And so I am using that language because it is accurate language when we see the consolidation of power, when we see them trying to chill speech of jokesters, when we’re seeing all of this. That is a playbook out of Hitler. And I won’t deny it.
Apparently, for Crockett, using the Holocaust as a political prop isn’t off-limits — so long as it helps demonize Trump and his supporters.
This isn’t an isolated outburst. Crockett has made a name for herself by trafficking in vulgarity and personal attacks. Back in March, at an event hosted by the Human Rights Campaign, she mocked Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s disability, calling the wheelchair-bound Republican “Governor Hot Wheels” and a “hot-a** mess.”
Crockett’s pattern of incendiary language goes beyond insults. In mid-August, she smeared black conservatives who might consider voting Republican, saying: “Most black people are not Republicans simply because we just is (sic) like, ‘Y’all racist. I can’t hang out with the KKK and them!’”
This came on the heels of her claim in May that Republicans are “inherently violent” and that most of their brutality is “against people with a little bit of melanin.”
Last spring, Crockett appeared to flirt with open incitement, saying of X owner Elon Musk: “All I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down.” Attorney General Pam Bondi blasted the statement as “domestic terrorism,” warning that Crockett was playing with fire by making veiled threats while claiming innocence.
Crockett now sits on the DOGE Oversight Committee — ironically claiming to fight misinformation while pushing Hitler analogies, racial smears, and ableist insults. Whether it’s mocking the disabled, calling conservatives Nazis, or insinuating that violence is just part of being Republican, Crockett has become the unfiltered id of the progressive movement.
