Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, the billionaire Democrat who’s made a cottage industry out of demonizing Trump as America’s homegrown Hitler, just cranked the fear dial to eleven. In a fresh tirade that’s got X exploding and conservatives rolling their eyes, Pritzker’s warning that President Trump is gearing up to unleash the military on polling places and ballot boxes—straight out of the authoritarian playbook of Russia and Nazi Germany. “I fear that what they’re going to do is deploy these folks eventually to polling places and say they’re protecting the vote,” he fretted in a clip that’s already viral. And if Trump “loses”? Pritzker claims he’ll pull a 2020 rerun: “use the military to confiscate the ballot boxes and count the votes, claiming that there’s fraud.” It’s the latest in a string of unhinged Hitler analogies from a guy whose family tree includes Holocaust survivors—yet here he is, tossing around Nazi smears like confetti at a DNC fundraiser.
This isn’t Pritzker’s first rodeo with Third Reich fever dreams. Back in February, during his State of the State address, he likened Trump’s early second-term moves—slashing DEI programs and cracking down on illegal immigration—to the Nazis dismantling Germany’s constitutional republic in just 53 days. “I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly,” he intoned, channeling his inner history prof while ignoring how his own sanctuary-state policies have turned Chicago into a magnet for Tren de Aragua terror cells and Latin Kings hit squads. Fast-forward to August, and he’s at it again, blasting Trump’s threats to federalize the National Guard in Windy City hotspots as a “DC-like takeover” echoing 1930s Berlin. By September, he’s tag-teaming with California Gov. Gavin Newsom on a DNC call, sounding alarms that Trump’s Guard deployments to blue bastions like Chicago and L.A. are a prelude to election meddling—pre-positioning troops to “stop the elections in 2026” or seize control amid manufactured mayhem.
Pritzker’s Putin parallel? That’s fresh red meat from his October 1 meltdown, where he slammed Trump’s Quantico pep talk to 800 military brass—floated using “war-ravaged” cities like Chicago as “training grounds” for urban ops—as straight-up dictatorial, demanding the 25th Amendment to oust a president he claims is “genuinely wrong” in the head. “Everything that he has done has been tearing down constitutional democracy and that’s what happened in Nazi Germany,” Pritzker wailed on The View earlier this year, equating ICE raids with Gestapo roundups. Never mind that Trump’s deployments are laser-focused on shielding feds from gangland bounties—like the $10K Latin Kings hit on ICE’s Gregory Bovino—or quelling the Brighton Park ambushes where armed mobs ram federal vans. To Pritzker, that’s not law and order; it’s a Reichstag fire in the making.
The hypocrisy burns hotter than a Chicago summer. This is the same governor whose “sanctuary” stubbornness has left Illinois cops twisting in the wind during federal ops, forcing Trump to surge Guard units just to protect agents from doxxing-driven drive-bys. Pritzker’s out here invoking ballot-box confiscations while his blue machine’s been knee-deep in the 2020 mail-in madness that birthed the “fortified” election narrative. And let’s not forget: Democrats like him cheered military interventions when it suited—think Pelosi’s Capitol fencing post-Jan. 6 or Biden’s Ukraine aid spigots—yet cry fascism when Trump’s troops target cartel corridors, not polling stations.
X is ablaze with pushback, from patriots mocking Pritzker’s “Civil War rematch” sequel to clips splicing his rants with Trump’s actual words on crime-crushing deployments. Karl Rove called him “over the top” on Fox; even some Dem strategists whisper his Nazi shtick might backfire with the middle, where folks crave safety over hysteria. Pritzker’s not wrong about authoritarian playbooks—he’s just projecting them onto the guy finally enforcing borders while his party’s the one flirting with vote-harvesting scandals and Big Tech censorship.
Illinois, America: This isn’t prophecy; it’s projection from a pol eyeing 2028 while his state’s bleeds from open-borders blindness. Trump’s military moves? They’re about reclaiming streets from the chaos Pritzker’s cultivated—not cooking elections. If anyone’s rigging the game, it’s the sanctuary crowd shielding felons to score woke points. Drop the Hitler hysterics, JB, and try governing. Or keep swinging those Godwin’s Law haymakers—history’s villains don’t wear red ties.
Harvested from today’s X firestorm and wires tracing Pritzker’s endless outrage arc.
