This was a story my dad told me about my parents wedding.

My dad’s mom’s side of the family is Polish and Russian Jews.

My mom’s side of the family is all Polish Catholics.

My dad’s grandmother’s brother (his great uncle) was from the same region of Poland as my mom’s mom’s side of the family.  They were from practically the same town outside of Warsaw.  One side was Catholic and on the other side of the river that ran through town was the Jewish side.

At my parents wedding, my dad’s great uncle was speaking in Polish to my mom’s grandmother.  My mom’s grandmother asked him how he spoke fluent Polish.  He said “I’m Polish.”  My mom’s grandmother said (quite loudly) “you’re not a Polish, you’re a Jew.”

That right there explains the Holocaust so well.  The Poles, Germans, French, and so many other Europeans never though of the Jews as their fellow countrymen.  They were always strangers, outsiders, in nations that have lived in for generations.

Fast forward to yesterday (6/1/2017) where Keith Olbermann tweets this:

There you have it.  According to resistance leader Reichsführer Olbermann, Republicans are not Americans.

Olbermann goes on a 7:44 rant in which he clearly states that Republicans are traitors who will be “damned by history” for Donald Trump.  To him, Republicans are an insidious force bent on destroying America, and maybe the world, for money.

I’m surprised he didn’t come out and call Republicans untermensch.

I’m getting a whiff of historical precedent of a man ranting into a TV camera, saying that all those who oppose his vision for his nation are subversive traitors.

Republicans are not Americans, they are “the other.”

(Illegal immigrants on the other hand are totally embraced as Americans and deserving of all sorts of free stuff.)

This is not the language of “resistance” or unity.

A few of his followers seem to understand that.

This will only embolden the violent on the Left.

For the first time in my life, as I stand on my tip toes to try to see if there is a gas chamber in my future over the horizon, I’m not sure if it is there because I’m Jewish, or because I’m not a Democrat.