Orange Crate Art: JB Pritzer and Mary Miller

Thursday, June 12, 2025

JB Pritzer and Mary Miller

Governor JB Pritzker said to Rep. Mary Miller: "I am not going to be lectured to by somebody who extols the virtue of Hitler." Finally, someone says it to their faces.

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— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) June 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM

And just so the context is here: in January 2021, as a newly elected member of Congress, Mary Miller (R, IL-15) said that “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.‘” I am cheered to see Governor Pritzker reminding her about it today.

Here’s the text of the letter I sent to Miller back then (the first of many, all unanswered). If my reference to Kant’s categorical imperative went over her head, well, she never asked for clarification.

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June 13: A little more context from the Chicago Tribune :

Pritzker also had a sharp back-and-forth with right-wing downstate Republican U.S. Rep. Mary Miller, who isn’t on the panel [the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform] but joined for the day and accused Pritzker of backing a policy of “tying the hands of Illinois law enforcement” and of rolling out “the red carpet for illegal aliens to protect them all at the expense of working people in Illinois.”

“I’m not going to be lectured to by someone who extolls the virtues of Adolf Hitler,” the Jewish Illinois governor said of Miller, referring to comments Miller made on the day before the Jan. 6 riot when she told an audience of conservative women that “Hitler was right on one thing” for trying to indoctrinate the youth. She subsequently issued an apology.

After the hearing, Pritzker called Miller, of Hindsboro, a “terrible congresswoman” who “literally brings nothing home to the district” and “does not believe in doing things for her constituents.” Instead, he said, “All she does is attack, attack, attack.”

Notice: “who isn’t on the panel but joined for the day.” Mary Miller showed up to showboat.

And it has to be said: Miller’s apology for her “Hitler was right” was at least an atrium and two ventricles short of wholehearted. She insisted that her words had been twisted. And one of her daughters praised her on Facebook: