Actor Russell Brand calls out Hillary Clinton for calling Trump supporters Nazis

Actor Russel Brand called out Hillary Clinton and other Democrats on Tuesday for reducing their criticism of Trump supporters and people on the right as “Nazis” and “fascists.”

The popular Hollywood comedian made his comments during a video he posted on his YouTube channel, Brand criticized Clinton’s recent comments at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, where she compared a MAGA rally in Ohio at which Trump supporters raised their index fingers to the Roman salutes made at Nazi rallies during the Third Reich.

“Hillary Clinton has called Trump supporters Nazis, but she has declared that she admires that new Italian leader who the left say is a ‘fascist,’ and also, though, aren’t there ‘Nazis’ fighting for the Ukraine?” Brand exclaimed. “Is ‘fascist’ just a convenient term to bring down people you don’t agree with?”

Brand’s said that Clinton and others on the left have begun compulsively comparing their opponents to Nazis, giving them the opportunity to “disparage them rather than having a genuine concern.” On May 21, Russia expert and former Soviet resident Rebekah Koffler wrote a piece for the New York Post titled, ‘Joe Biden’s ‘Ultra MAGA’ comments are right out of Joseph Stalin’s playbook.

“President Biden has borrowed a page right out of Vladimir Putin’s playbook. As someone who was raised in the USSR, I am all too familiar with the tactic of divisive, inflammatory rhetoric and scapegoating that the Soviet government used to foment hatred among its own citizens in order to keep permanent control,” she wrote.”

Brand said that the Left’s comparison to Nazis is a strategy to minimize the impact of the tens of millions of people who voted for Trump as part of an attempt to associate them with a radical regime that committed genocide. He said the comparison was in reality, “a pretty serious allegation” and “a really heavy thing to call someone.”

“There are families where there are Trump supporters and Democrats in the same family,” he said. “Once you say someone’s a Nazi you know you’re saying, ‘We don’t have to deal with you, we don’t have to talk to you, you’re out of the conversation.'”

Brand also asserted that the Left’s funding of specific “MAGA candidates” they consider extremists is also part of a strategy to nominate candidates they believe would be easier to defeat.

“If you want to prevent extremism, what you have to have, is a functional democracy, not a democracy where you highlight Trump in order to ensure that your own party, in this case the Democrat Party, can neglect ordinary blue-collar Americans of all hues, colors, and persuasions,” Brand said.

“I think using the specter of 20th-century fascism in order to avoid confronting the inefficiency of contemporary neoliberalism is the real crime here,” Brand said. “If you want people not to be drawn to what you regard as extremism then present alternatives and options instead of increasing the social tensions, exacerbating existing cultural conflicts, pretending that Trump is worse than he is.”

Brand said media pundits and candidates on the left try to hide behind their attacks on Trump as a distraction so the media avoids uncovering their own vulnerabilities or scandals.

“Whether you like Donald Trump or don’t like Donald Trump, comparing him to a Nazi is illegitimate, it’s wrong, and it’s a way of avoiding your own political shortcomings, and that’s the real problem.”