As a boy who grew up in the 1940s in a town that sent many people off to war including several of my uncles, Hitler and the Nazis were not exactly boyhood heros.
In my 72 years I came across a number of people who think Hitler was not such a bad guy. One "Hitler wasn't a bad guy" statement came from a former artillery soldier in Hitler's army. Sort of understandable.
The other times it was from just plain right wing folks in America. That's harder for me to swallow.
In my 72 years I came across a number of people who think Hitler was not such a bad guy. One "Hitler wasn't a bad guy" statement came from a former artillery soldier in Hitler's army. Sort of understandable.
The other times it was from just plain right wing folks in America. That's harder for me to swallow.
I strongly suspect that John Birch Society Chapter Leader and former Coatesville resident Pat Sellers is one of those Hitler loving people.
Pat Sellers would have had a much better chance of winning in 2014, Republicans made a dramatic slide to the extremist right wing.It seems to me that being called a Nazi would not insult Pat Sellers.
Pat Sellers stood at the podium in the Coatesville City Council Meeting Room just after Dick and Ricky Saha shouted "Nazi" at Coatesville City Council member Bill Chertok. I suppose he was trying to defend the Sahas when he said "Hitler wasn't so bad..." caught himself and stopped speaking. Dick Saha apologized in a Daily Local News article. Ricky Saha refused to apologize in that same article.
Pat Sellers first run for Congress was in 1996.
He had support and the blessing of Larry Pratt.
LARRY PRATT
Larry Pratt is a gun rights extremist who also advocates a theocratic society based on Old Testament civil and religious laws, and a pivotal figure in the militia movement.
Both of the Patrick Henry Sellers for Congress correspond to the rise of anti-government militia groups in the United States.
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Pat ran against Jim Gerlach in 2010.
In 2014 Jim Gerlach was out of the race. He retired. It seemed like a good chance for Pat Sellers to make another go at running for Congress.
In just those 4 years Republican politics made a dramatic slide to extremist right wing. Pat Sellers would have had a much better chance of winning in 2014.
Republican Party headliner Donald Trump is a modern day Benito Mussolini. Not a Nazi but very close.
Washington Post
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