Iowa State Senator quits the Republican party

In its death throes, the Republican Party is a toilet of racist, sexist, misogynistic bullshit. Today, Iowa State Senator David Johnson has changed his party affiliation to "No Party", and compared the rise of Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for president, that of the fascist German National Socialists in the 1930s.

Via TPM:

Johnson, who said he would change his registration to No Party, compared Trumps rise to the top of the GOP ticket to the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.

Trump won by reducing his campaign to reality TV and large crowds and divisive language and all the trappings of a good show for those who like that kind of approach and thats what happened in the 1930s in Germany, he told The Guardian.

I think thats all I need to say but certainly the fascists took control of Germany under the same types of strategies, he added.

Johnson, who noted that his own father was part of the first U.S. unit to help liberate a Nazi prison camp, said that Trumps attacks on the Mexican heritage of U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel flew in the face of everything hed been taught as a child.

If were going to exclude Muslims from traveling to the United States, whos next? Are we going to come down on Jews? ... Hes not fit to be president, Johnson told the publication.