JB Pritzker doubles down on calls for people to mobilize against Trump: Five-alarm fire

Illinois Democratic Gov.JB Pritzker urged Americans to “mobilize” against President Trump on Monday, a day after he delivered a fiery speech in New Hampshire calling for “disruption” and “mass protests.”“Let me be clear, we’re in a perilous moment in this country,” Pritzker said during an interview with MSNBC host Jen Psaki, when asked about what he was trying to convey in his speech at a New Hampshire Democratic Party dinner Sunday night. In his speech, which conservatives quickly blasted as “reckless,”  the governor declared that Republicans “cannot know a moment of peace.” “They have to understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have,” Pritzker said at the McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner, a high-profile Democratic Party fundraiser.  “We must castigate them on the soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box.”“Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption, but I am now,” Pritzker added.During his interview with Psaki, the governor doubled down on his comments and even likened the Trump administration’s policies to those of “Nazi Germany.” “When you don’t control Congress, when you don’t control the White House, and people are feeling helpless and powerless, it’s time for people to mobilize,” Pritzker said.

“And I wanted people to hear that they do have power.” “My family emigrated to this country from Ukraine when the Russians were killing Jews during the pogroms,” the governor continued.  “And so, what I feel, anyway, is that the dangers that my family experienced in Ukraine, the dangers that we saw in, you know, Nazi Germany, especially in the earliest days of Nazi Germany, are the dangers that we need to react to now,” Pritzker argued.“If we don’t, things will get much, much worse.”“This isn’t just speculative … I feel it in my bones, because I’ve seen this happen before,” the bil...