Horst Wessel was a minor Nazi and a small time pimp who got shot during a dispute with his landlady. Because he was shot by members of the Communist Party the Nazis decided to elevate his death to a national tragedy.
One of them called it a Reichstag moment. Literally.
“Charlie Kirk being assassinated is the American Reichstag fire,” tweeted a far-right personality named Matt Forney who boasts of having been banned from X before Musk’s takeover. “It is time for a complete crackdown on the left. Every Democratic politician must be arrested and the party banned under RICO. Every libtard commentator must be shut down.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst-Wessel-Lied
Horst Wessel was a minor Nazi and a small time pimp who got shot during a dispute with his landlady. Because he was shot by members of the Communist Party the Nazis decided to elevate his death to a national tragedy.
All of the parallels really are stunning.
One of them called it a Reichstag moment. Literally.
“Charlie Kirk being assassinated is the American Reichstag fire,” tweeted a far-right personality named Matt Forney who boasts of having been banned from X before Musk’s takeover. “It is time for a complete crackdown on the left. Every Democratic politician must be arrested and the party banned under RICO. Every libtard commentator must be shut down.”
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https://www.jta.org/2025/09/11/united-states/antisemitism-flares-and-reichstag-mentions-soar-online-in-wake-of-charlie-kirk-assassination