You're Over Reacting!

How many times have I heard that when I write about Trump and the Republican Party, and how it is mirroring Nazi Germany in the 1930s? “Oh, you are overreacting! It can never happen here!”

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Rep. Nancy Mace

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Just because you're mentally ill doesn't mean the rest of America has to play along. 

A man is a man. A woman is a woman.

6:30 PM · Jul 29, 2026

But that is not the first time she has made comments about us. Last September, she said...

Trans People Need To Be Taken ‘Off The Streets’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting

TPM

by Hunter Walker

09.17.25

The killing of right wing activist and influencer Charlie Kirk has prompted disturbing and questionably legal calls for a crackdown on the left from President Trump and his allies. In an appearance on the cable network Newsmax on Tuesday evening, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) took things further — way further. 

After latching on to the fact the man being charged with the shooting allegedly had a transgender romantic partner, Jackson called gender non-conforming people a “virus” as he argued they need to be placed in institutions and barred from the internet. 

“We have to do something about this,” Jackson said after railing against doctors who aid with “gender transition. “We have to treat these people. We have to get them off the streets and we have to get them off the internet. We can’t let them communicate with each other. I’m all about free speech, but this is a virus, this is a cancer that’s spreading across this country that’s going to do great damage to normal, hard working, law abiding people.”

What are we going to do—laugh it off? “Oh, she didn't mean it that way!” Our “community trauma” with the Holocaust, with the attacks in Turkey and Senegal... it raises our hackles when we see that happening here.

And then there is the language coming from the Trump administration itself with him labeling us terrorists

With Trump’s administration incorporating “gender” into its domestic-terrorism framework, it becomes even harder for many of us to simply laugh it off.

Political Notebook: Book examines intersection of the Holocaust and US LGBTQ movement

by Matthew S. Bajko, Assistant Editor  Wednesday, October 8, 2025

From the start of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals in 1933, the atrocities Adolph Hitler and his regime waged against LGBTQ Germans and others has impacted the LGBTQ community in America. Long before the Stonewall riots in New York City of 1969, the horrors unleashed by the Nazis were central to the fight for LGBTQ rights in the U.S.

So argues Thomas R. Dunn, founder and director of the Queer Memory Project of Northern Colorado, in his new book “The Pink Scar: How Nazi Persecution Shaped the Struggle for LGBTQ+ Rights.” It will be released October 21 by Penn State University Press as the first book in its Troubling Democracy series.

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Practically from the start of the war, LGBTQ Americans had access to news reports about how German homosexuals were being rounded up. The coverage spoke about the pink triangles they were made to wear in the concentration camps to denote their being gay.

Our collective memories remember the Lavender Scare. We survived Anita Bryant and “Save Our Children,” and now we hear it all again!

Republican lawmakers Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson call for transgender people to be institutionalized

GOP U.S. Reps. Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson both called for the institutionalization of transgender people on Tuesday.

The Advocate

Erin Reed

Sep 17, 2025

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing—committed by a suspect who notably was not transgender—conservative leaders have seized the moment to escalate their war on LGBTQ+ people. Vice President JD Vance and Stephen Miller used the death to demand the dismantling of NGOs critical of Kirk. Far-right influencer Matt Walsh openly called for executions of those he branded “LGBTQ+ terrorists.” And now, two sitting members of Congress have crossed a new threshold, explicitly calling for the institutionalization of transgender people—an escalation even by today’s standards.

First, South Carolina representative Nancy Mace, who has a history of vehement opposition to transgender people in Congress, called for the institutionalization of transgender people in a street interview where she hurled slurs at the community. She first stated of the shooter’s partner, “It was a transgender… It was a [tr*nny].” When she was asked how she would feel if she were called names the way she calls transgender people, she said “these people are violently ill and should be in a straitjacket with a hard steel lock on it.”

I am sure that back in the ’30s their neighbors said, “You worry too much.” I worry about a coup and a crackdown on dissidents. And when the government begins using the language of domestic terrorism and dissidents in connection with “gender” and “gender extremism,” it is understandable that we and LGBTQ+ communities pay close attention.