GOP Rep: Arrest “Nazis” Who Protest GOP Town Halls

The New Republic reports:

Republican lawmakers were met with fire and fury over the weekend as their constituents hounded them for failing to intervene in a budget resolution that will result in billions in cuts to Medicaid. One Republican has decided the best option is to threaten criminal charges for Americans who dare to dissent against Trump’s agenda. Wisconsin Rep. Derrick Van Orden likened his constituents to Nazis, claiming that only Communists and fascists would protest their lawmakers.

“People who associated with the Communist movement and the National Socialism movement used to get their way politically, is—they would do stuff like this, and they were called agitators,” Van Orden told the podcast. Van Orden then said that if protesters came to his town halls and acted “in an unlawful manner,” or if they were “disrupting or refusing to leave a venue,” then he would have them “arrested and charged with a class B misdemeanor.”

Read the full article. Van Orden, who attended the Capitol riot, has publicly threatened a constituent for asking about DOGE. Last month he filed to impeach a federal judge who ruled against DOGE.

U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) compared constituents pushing back at Republican town halls to Nazis:

“People associated with the Communist movement and the National Socialism movement used to get their way politically, is- they would do stuff like this.” pic.twitter.com/xbSJRWg9nv

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