Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has lambasted the Trump administration for daring to label the Democratic Party “fascist,” calling it a dangerous tactic designed to “sow fear and intimidation and division among Americans.”
It’s a remarkable statement, coming from a man who has spent years hurling the very same epithet—and worse—at Trump and his supporters.
Pritzker’s declaration rings with the hollow echo of hypocrisy, underscoring a deeper partisan double standard that has poisoned discourse for nearly a decade.
JUST IN: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says it is dangerous for the Trump administration to call the Democratic Party "fascist."
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 29, 2025
"This is about sowing fear and intimidation and division among Americans."
Remarkable. pic.twitter.com/MOB8VxCFb5
At a Chicago news conference, the Democratic governor urged political leaders—starting with Trump—to “tone down the rhetoric.”
Remarkable.
He argued that Trump’s failure to deliver a unifying message after Charlie Kirk’s murder exemplified how inflammatory language from the right endangers Republicans and Democrats alike.
“Political violence has increased substantially against both Republicans and Democrats,” Pritzker said, rejecting GOP claims that his own words and those of Democrats have stoked the flames.
Pritzker’s indignation peaks not at the substance of the “fascist” label but at its application to his own party.
This selective sensitivity ignores a glaring irony: Democrats, including Pritzker himself, have wielded the term as a cudgel against Trump with abandon, constantly framing his policies as an existential threat to democracy.
Since Trump’s 2016 campaign, labeling him a fascist has evolved from fringe hyperbole to a mainstream talking point.
In October 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris bluntly affirmed during a CNN town hall: “Yes, I do” believe Trump is a fascist.
Where did Charlie Kirk's murderer learn to call conservatives "fascists"?
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 12, 2025
"Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?"
Kamala Harris: "Yes, I do. YES, I DO!" pic.twitter.com/RxDjgOYjKY
Trump’s former chief of staff, Deep State swamp creature Gen. John Kelly, described him as “fascist to the core” in a New York Times interview, citing Trump’s admiration for dictators and threats to use the military against domestic “enemies.”
Former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley also labeled Trump “fascist to the core” in Bob Woodward’s book War and Hillary Clinton called his rhetoric “blatantly fascist.”
Pritzker himself explicitly compared the Trump administration’s tactics to Nazi Germany’s rise, warning of an “authoritarian playbook” that echoed the 1930s.
He referenced the infamous 1978 Skokie neo-Nazi march—near his hometown—to underscore the peril, declaring, “If we don’t want to repeat history, then for God’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.”
When Trump began federal interventions in Chicago, Pritzker doubled down, likening the president’s vow to deploy the National Guard to the Nazis “tearing down a constitutional republic,” conveniently ignoring Chicago’s 2024 homicide tally, which topped 600 by year’s end.
In a New Hampshire speech, he called for “mass protests” and “disruption” against Trump’s “fascist takeover.”
These weren’t off-the-cuff remarks; they were deliberate, repeated invocations of fascism to rally the base and frame Trump as an existential danger.
JB Pritzker: I never called them Nazis
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) September 15, 2025
Also JB Pritzker: OK, so maybe I called Trump Hitler and Republicans nazis on a dozen occasions…pic.twitter.com/28MLpXvaec
Pritzker’s proclamation is a textbook case of pure projection. The Democratic establishment spent years demonizing Trump as Hitler 2.0, only to feign shock when Republicans flip it back on them for their own heavy-handed policies, like COVID mandates or social media censorship.
Democrat Illinois Governor JB Pritzker compares the Trump administration to "Nazis" and calls for people to "step out of your comfort zone and step out to the streets."
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 29, 2025
Sounds a little insurrectiony if you ask me! pic.twitter.com/2lAF31GNoB
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We have a strange dichotomy. Liberals condemn opponents, calling them fascist and Nazi. At the same time they insist on giving financial and material support to the Nazis in Ukraine.
Prikster is a fat fascist.
Firstly, the NAZI’s were democrat socialist that used violence to get their way, rigged election and set up their political opponents. Secondly, we are a Constitutional Republic not a Constitutional Democracy. Lastly. you phat ph–k you call conservative NAZI’S, RACIST, BIGOTS, because that is what your movement is about. As we all know the Democrat playbook is to blame their opponents for what they are actually doing. By the way that is what the NAZI’S did too. You call Trump and his followers these names to cover up your actions. Liar’s cheats criminals and traitors. Your time is short, so you are filled with wrath and seek to as much harm before you are cast out.
They need to call zion don KING DON OF GAZA now since he is installing himself as ruler with another genocidal lunatic as governor called tony blair. Interesting times we live in with levels of megalomania not seen since the days of stalin.
Tom Goebbels.
Well, you know the old saying about the left, if it weren’t for their double standards, they’d have none at all.