Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin condemned political violence and then immediately accused the Trump administration of being a “fascist regime,” according to a Friday report.
“I’ve been very vocal, after Charlie Kirk died, that there’s no place for political violence,” Martin told Semafor in an interview. “But calling out a fascist regime for what it is? There’s no doubt in my mind, when you look at other fascist regimes around the world, over our history, that this not only has the hallmarks of a fascist regime, it is a fascist regime.”
Martin then said that Republicans “want an authoritarian or a fascist to control this country.”
The DNC chairman’s remarks come as Democrats have faced growing backlash over political violence in recent months. A far-left gunman assassinated Kirk, a prominent conservative activist, on September 10. Reports broke earlier this month that the Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general, Jay Jones, fantasized about shooting a Republican colleague and wished death on the colleague’s children.
Democratic officials, including Martin, have not called on Jones to drop out. “That was a change from how Democrats had handled comparable situations before,” Semafor noted. “For example, in 2019, Martin’s predecessor, Tom Perez, had urged then-Gov. Ralph Northam to quit, after photos of him wearing blackface resurfaced.”
The Democratic Party has been embroiled for months in financial troubles and bitter infighting. Under Martin’s leadership, the DNC trails the RNC by nearly all fundraising metrics, with Politico reporting in August that donors view the party as “rudderless, off message and leaderless.”
“It is shocking how little reassessment the party and its leadership has done,” Democratic megadonor Rachel Pritzker told the Wall Street Journal this month.
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