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Sen. Mike Lee schooled on history after sharing post conflating Nazism and Socialism.
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Miss: Social Studies Dear “high IQ” MAGAs, you need to start reading history. No matter what that big-brain Sen. Mike Lee says, fascism is not socialism. Lee, who spends most of his time on X, shared an Elon Musk post that said, “Hitler was a socialist, therefore all socialists are Hitler.”
And Lee was all-in on it. “Fascism and Naziism [sic] aren’t the opposite of socialism, as the modern left would have you believe. They *are* socialism,” he said. No, no and no. Historian Federico Finchelstein valiantly tried to outrun social media and set the record straight.
Just because it has “socialism”…
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