News from Indiana, as reported in The Indianapolis Star:
The Hamilton County chapter of Moms for Liberty, a national organization recently listed as an "extremist group" by a civil rights watchdog, apologized Thursday morning after it launched a newsletter called The Parent Brigade Wednesday that featured a quote from Adolf Hitler on its front cover.The quotation was a variation on the words Representative Mary Miller (R, IL-15) spoke on January 5, 2020: “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’” The Moms have it as “He, alone, who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future.”
The Star also reports on two other appearances of these words in recent American discourse, on a billboard in 2014 and in a 2023 Facebook post by a member of a Colorado Springs school aboard.
It never occurs to these dangerous people that Hitler did have the youth — the Hitler Youth, as I reminded Mary Miller in 2022. But as I pointed out to her, he did not have the future. And neither will the Moms.
Notice who’s speaking later this week at an event the Moms are promoting: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Related reading
All OCA Mary Miller posts (Pinboard)
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Do you think they got the quote from Mary Miller?
That’s a good question. I suspect that it circulates widely in far-right circles. The billboard had it above the Bible verse about “training up” a child. The billboard and the school-board member both had the same phrasing, different from Miller’s. So maybe there’s a different source. But Miller certainly gave the “Hitler was right” bit broad exposure.
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