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Ilhan Omar told CBS’s Face the Nation on December 7 that Stephen Miller’s immigration rhetoric “reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany,” a stunning and reckless charge aimed at a public servant who happens to be Jewish. The exchange played out on national television with host Margaret Brennan prompting the question and then, noticeably, not forcing a rebuttal or pressing for clarification.
Miller’s Thanksgiving post on X warned that “no magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders” and argued that mass migration can import dysfunction at scale — a sober policy concern that millions of Americans share as they witness chaotic border crossings and violent incidents tied to failed-state migration. The CBS interview planted Omar’s comparison directly next to that post and the larger national debate over assimilation, public safety, and the cost of unvetted migration.
Conservative commentators were rightfully outraged, and mainstream conservative media hammered back hard. Voices across the right — including long-time critics of media double standards — pointed out that labeling policy arguments “Nazi rhetoric” is not only flippant but dangerous, and that the press’s failure to push back only normalizes hysteria.
Omar’s comparison is especially absurd on its face: Stephen Miller is Jewish, and to equate his policy arguments about immigration with the rhetoric used by the Nazis is either ignorant or intentionally inflammatory. Americans can and should debate immigration policy vigorously, but honest debate is degraded when partisan figures resort to moral absolutes and Holocaust analogies to shut down disagreement.
Margaret Brennan’s conduct in that segment is emblematic of a media that now tolerates, even enables, moral grandstanding from the left while treating conservative voices as dangerous extremists. When anchors let incendiary labels pass without challenge, they’re not protecting civility — they’re abandoning it, and they’re complicit in the radicalization of public discourse.
Patriotic Americans who care about honest debate and national unity should reject cheap rhetorical stunts and demand better from both politicians and the press. Call out the double standards, defend the right to make sober policy arguments about borders and assimilation, and refuse to let hysterical smears replace the hard work of governing and common-sense conservatism.
