A developing Republican proposal to strip gun rights from transgender Americans would take the country down a path similar to one from history’s darkest chapters, say the hosts of Today in Ohio .
In a forceful segment of the cleveland.com and Plain Dealer news podcast discussion, the conversation about the proposed policy quickly escalated beyond typical political debate into a stark warning about historical patterns repeating themselves.
“We’re following the Nazi playbook here. That’s what the Nazis did. They vilified individual groups of people, stripped them of their rights, and went down the path they went down... This is all about vilifying one group.”
Anticipating potential backlash for invoking such a comparison, Quinn doubled down, stating he had a message for the people who