If there’s one thing Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen wants the voting public to know, it’s that he is super duper into making analogies between government efforts to mitigate an ongoing, catastrophic pandemic, and Nazi Germany’s systematic eradication of European Jewry during the 1930s and ‘40s. With everything else going on in the world today, this is evidently what Jensen really, really wants to focus on. And folks? If nothing else, it’s certainly A Choice™.
Here’s the background: In April, Jensen — a staunchly anti-choice, anti-urban, pro-COVID candidate — spoke at a conservative “mask off” event, where he compared Minnesota’s various pandemic responses to Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. Specifically, he compared them to Kristallnacht, the infamous “night of broken glass” in which thousands of Jewish-owned stores, homes, and synagogues were destroyed by various Nazi party figures.
