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With another January 6th upon us, it was just a matter of time before someone delivered the worst take of the day, and no one will be shocked to learn that it came out of Sunny Hostin’s mouth. One of the co-hosts of “The View,” ostensibly a journalist program under the ABC News brand, Hostin has repeatedly beclowned herself on national television over the years. It’s gotten to the point where I could write multiple articles a week on her idiotic ramblings. I value mine and your sanity too much for that, though. 

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So what did Hostin say? While discussing January 6th, she called it “one of the worst moments in American history,” which is an opinion, I suppose. Had she stopped there, there wouldn’t really be much else to say. She didn’t stop there, though. Instead, she claimed that the riot at the Capitol was comparable to the Holocaust, World War II, and Slavery. Now, some of you may point out that the Holocaust was not committed by Americans, but that’s because you’re expecting way too much out of Hostin.

HOSTIN: I think we need to find moral clarity, you know, in this country, and I just remember after January 6th, you had someone like Mitch McConnell placing the blame on Donald Trump’s shoulders, and then you started seeing people backtrack that and losing their moral center. You had Condeleeza Rice, I believe, on this very show saying, “You know, we need to move on from January 6th.” I say no. You don’t move on from January 6th because January 6th was an atrocity. it was one of the worst moments in American history

(Applause)

And when you think of the worst moments in American history, you know, like World War II, things that happened, you know, like the Holocaust, chattel slavery. We need to never forget because past becomes prologue if you forget and erase.

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Hostin calls for “moral clarity,” but I’m going to question the moral clarity of anyone depraved enough to compare a short-lived, three-hour riot to…the Holocaust. That wasn’t lost on Scott Jennings, who launched her into orbit shortly after her comments. 

JENNINGS: In light of all the rhetoric and things we’re going to hear people say today is that, ultimately, it was the American people who got to decide, ultimately, how we feel collectively as a country about January the 6th, and already today we have heard some people in other venues say extraordinarily unhinged and vile things, comparing January 6th to the Holocaust, to slavery, to World War II. I think we need to arrange our feelings and control ourselves accordingly here and not go off the deep end. 

It was not a good day. Political violence cannot be condoned, but we can also be measured in how we view it in light of the rest of American and world history. What’s happening today is ultimately a good thing because both parties, for the first time in my adult life, are accepting the results of an election, and that is ultimately putting this country on the right track. I think people ought to really take stock of our feelings and not get out over our skis too much today, minimizing other world events and comparing them to January the 6th.

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Look, people can be dramatic about January 6th if they’d like. They can demand Americans “never forget” even though it is clear only Democrat elites have the luxury of worrying about it four years after the fact. What they can’t do is claim that January 6th was comparable to the slaughter of over ten million people in literal death camps. I’m also trying to figure out why World War II is listed as an “atrocity” in Hostin’s statement. And here I thought defeating Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were good things for humanity. It’s likewise just as nonsensical to compare January 6th to hundreds of years of slavery in America. 

On second thought, nonsensical is too kind of a word. It’s disgusting and offensive. I get that Hostin is desperately clinging to January 6th because the rest of the nation soundly rejected her politics in November, but ABC News should hold its hosts to some basic standards. One of them should be not downplaying slavery and the Holocaust for political points. Hostin’s words call for clarification and an apology. I’d also note that the ADL typically criticizes anyone who makes a trivial Holocaust comparison. Will they speak up here? Because they should.

I know it makes some people upset when I say this, but I agree with Jennings that January 6th was not a good day. I don’t think it’s surrendering to anybody to admit that. It was a moment of unrest that was embarrassing and ill-advised, but “democracy” was not in peril. The country was not moments away from being overthrown. The only people still treating January 6th as a solemn anniversary are those politically invested in it. The rest of the country has moved on, whether Hostin likes it or not.

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