Minnesota GOP Apologizes After Anti-Semitic Meme Comparing Bernie Sanders to Hitler Was Posted

The official Facebook account for a branch of the Minnesota Republican Party posted an anti-Semitic image on Monday comparing presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders to Adolf Hitler. Their attempt at an apology later made things worse.

The contents of the post are not worth repeating in detail, but generally contained a series of scurrilous and a-historical arguments comparing the Nazi Party leader to Sanders, who is Jewish, and whose family was killed during the Shoah.

Originally posted by a popular conservative account on Instagram, the anti-Semitic meme eventually inspired outrage after being highlighted by advocacy groups and activists on Twitter.

The GOP organization then made thing worse:

First, and this should go without saying, comparing any Jew to the Nazis is bad form. Hitler was responsible for the murder of 6 million Jews. This is especially gross because Bernie Sanders has talked publicly about *his own family members* murdered in the Holocaust. Second, this particular post is deeply anti-Semitic, because it compares the super-rich, Bernie’s targets, to the Jews themselves. As if to say Jews are the same as the billionaires Bernie frequently talks about.Which is also how Hitler talked about the Jews, as it turns out.