MSNBC’s Katie Phang asked whether Americans should be should be “concerned” that President-elect Donald Trump will carry out Adolf Hitler-style revenge plots against his political enemies.

On Saturday’s The Katie Phang Show, Phang reacted to Trump ally Steve Bannon, recently released from prison, on The Sean Spicer Show calling for former Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley to be recalled to “active duty” on day one of Trump’s administration and to face a court martial.

Milley has become a vocal critic of Trump, calling him “fascist to the core.”

“Listen, this is obviously motivated by revenge, but we’ve seen this before, historically. Adolf Hitler purged the Nazi Party of Nazis that he felt had too much power and could become political enemies in the future. Matthew, how concerned should we be about drawing these parallels?” Phang asked after airing the Bannon clip.

MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd said he is not someone who “calls somebody Hitler,” but agreed there are similarities.

Dowd argued:
“I don’t think we should be concerned about drawing parallels because they are very apt to the situation we are in today. I am not one that calls somebody Hitler, but there are Hitler like performances that Donald Trump, and words that he uses quite often. And it seems that there is no problem among the Republican caucus and among Republicans to have some semblance of autocracy in our country over democracy here. And so it’s exceedingly concerning the fact that Steve Bannon has any sway at all after he just stepped out of prison just days ago in the course of this, that he has any sway over this administration is concerning.

Phang later asked whether Trump would also target the media in the styles of countries like North Korea and China.

“Should members of the press, including you, be concerned and the public, frankly, for that matter who is relying on us to continue to provide the truth in the face of something that is antidemocratic?” she asked.

“Yes, I think we all should be concerned, all of us that are in media who have made,” Woke AF Daily podcast host Danielle Moodie said. “I think we all have made our lives and our careers of narrating the American story and the fact is Donald Trump has sued a number of outlets, including this one, before he was president-elect. So the ability to be able to weaponize government against those that he does not like, particularly the press. I mean, that to me is going to be the death blow of democracy.”

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