Perkins, Mourdock join the long list of GOP Holocaust expanders

In 2012, Democrats won 93 percent of the African-American vote and 69 percent of the Jewish vote. Given the policy preferences of those voting blocks, the results should have come as no surprise to Republicans. But making matters worse, GOP candidates and conservative leaders insist on casually equating programs and policies they oppose to the world-historical crimes of slavery and the Holocaust. From Obamacare, upper-class tax hikes and the national debt to public education, abortion and gun control, the GOP's best and brightest now routinely compare everything they hate to the bondage of millions of Americans and Hitler's slaughter of European Jewry. And this week, Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins joined that very long list.

Of all days, failed 2012 Senate candidate Mourdock used the 70th anniversary of D-Day to suggest the U.S. national debt is a stepping stone to the Final Solution. Leaving aside for the moment that federal debt has stabilized as annual deficits have plummeted, Mourdock insisted America is on the brink of its Nazi moment:

"The people of Germany in a free election selected the Nazi Party because they made great promises that appealed to them because they were desperate and destitute. And why is that? Because Germany was bankrupt. ...The truth is, 70 years later, we are drifting on the tides toward another beachhead and it is the bankruptcy of the United States of America."

Meanwhile, FRC's Perkins took to the airwaves to decry a recent ruling by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission which upheld an administrative judge's finding that a Christian bakery owner had violated Colorado's anti-discrimination statutes when he refused service to gay couples ordering wedding cakes. As Raw Story reported:

"I'm beginning to think, are re-education camps next?" Perkins wondered aloud. "When are they going to start rolling out the boxcars to start hauling off Christians?"

Perhaps the Holocaust analogy was still fresh in Tony Perkins' mind. After all, in March he interviewed Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, who accused American Jews of having "sold out Israel" by voting for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. The simpler explanation, of course, is that many Jewish voters may have recalled Bachmann comparing the national debt to the Holocaust.