Idaho's Rep. Scott criticized for “extreme ignorance” after making comments last week comparing the governor’s nonessential worker classification to policies in Nazi Germany.
Scott then compared workers asked to stay-at-home to prevent the spread of coronavirus to victims of the Nazis brought to concentration camps, saying “the nonessential worker got put on a train” and that residents are calling the Republican governor “Little Hitler.”
NBC News could not immediately reach Scott or Little on Monday morning, but Scott defended her remarks and criticized the reporting on her comments by The Spokesman-Review, a newspaper in Washington state.. “My recent analogies are poignant and relative to our times.
Rabbi Tamar Malino in nearby Spokane told the Spokesman that “mass murder and genocide is not the same thing as deciding which businesses should essentially stay open and which should stay closed.”said the coronavirus pandemic is “not an emergency,” insisted businesses should remain open and emphasized her belief that the governor’s decision to close businesses is illegal.
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