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Ted Cruz, of the Cruz-Hawley insurrection caucus, takes exception to Biden's Goebbels comparison about the Cruz-Hawley Big Lie, telling @AOC "Unless they are genocidal, calling your political opponents Nazis is atrocious." Note that Biden didn't actually *call* him a Nazi.
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In 2013, on the floor of the Senate, Cruz directly compared the fight against Obamacare to the fight against... Nazi Germany, accusing those who wouldn't join his vanity filibuster to defund it to Chamberlain-style appeasement.
https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/324567-transcript-sen-ted-cruzs-speech
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https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/324567-transcript-sen-ted-cruzs-speech
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He didn't call Obama a Nazi, or call the critics of his vanity filibuster Nazi sympathizers, but it was as close to a Nazi comparison as Biden's was, prompting no less than John McCain to take exception.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2013/0925/Ted-Cruz-vs.-John-McCain-This-time-it-s-about-Hitler
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https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2013/0925/Ted-Cruz-vs.-John-McCain-This-time-it-s-about-Hitler
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In conclusion, Ted Cruz of the Cruz-Hawley insurrection caucus is making up new rules of discourse he doesn't follow himself in order to distract from his encouragement of the Cruz-Hawley insurrection.
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