“It has been said that the most surefire way to create an authoritarian regime is to completely dehumanize a significant portion of the population, so that their subsequent enslavement by the state will not face any larger resistance. It was true during slavery, it was true during the Holocaust, and it is true now,” the blog post stated.
Yikes. I think comparing Trumpism favorably to the Holocaust and slavery could be a bridge too far still, this guy might actually get fired.
Not a Mainer but that line is poking at Collins, who has developed a reputation for expressing concerns about things and then lacking the courage to vote against them.