Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, became the latest Republican to draw scrutiny for comparing COVID-19 mitigation efforts to policies of Germany’s Nazi regime in a series of tweets Wednesday.
Responding to a message from Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser about a vaccine and mask mandate in the city, Davidson tweeted out a Nazi document and the message, “This has been done before. #DoNotComply.”
“Let’s recall that the Nazis dehumanized Jewish people before segregating them, segregated them before imprisoning them, imprisoned them before enslaving them, and enslaved them before massacring them,” added Davidson.
The official Twitter account for the Auschwitz Museum replied to Davidson, writing, “Exploiting of the tragedy of all people who between