What Does It Say About Tim Walz That He Compared ICE to Nazis and Then Offered to Work with Them a Day Later?

On Sunday, Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz reached for one of the most toxic rhetorical weapons in modern politics.

He invoked Holocaust victim Anne Frank and suggested that children in Minnesota were hiding in fear, language that framed federal immigration enforcement as something akin to the horrors of Nazi-occupied Europe.

“We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside,” Walz said. “Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is going to write that children’s story about Minnesota.”

There was no ambiguity in the comparison.

The statement was deliberate, emotionally loaded, and designed to equate Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with the Gestapo.

The next time Walz and Frey do a presser, it would be