Sunday’s Face the Nation interview produced a jaw-dropping moment when Rep. Ilhan Omar compared comments from Stephen Miller to “the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany,” a smear she delivered in response to a question about Miller’s warning on mass migration. The exchange was aired unfiltered, making clear that this was not a stray tweet but a full-throated broadcast statement from a sitting member of Congress.
Margaret Brennan read Miller’s Thanksgiving post aloud during the segment, quoting his warning that “no magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders” and that migrants can, at scale, “recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.” That is the actual policy argument millions of Americans recognize as a sober concern about assimilation and national cohesion — not the hysterical, historically reckless label Omar threw at Miller.
What makes Omar’s slur even more repugnant is the fact that Stephen Miller is Jewish, rendering her Nazi comparison grotesquely tone-deaf and politically opportunistic. This was not a debate about nuance; it was a deliberate attempt to weaponize the Holocaust as a partisan cudgel against anyone who dares to talk honestly about the consequences of open-border policies.
Margaret Brennan’s performance on the show was equally telling — instead of cutting off the defamation or using the opportunity to press for clarity, she essentially let Omar have the last word with a soft confirmation that this is “how you hear it.” Journalists used to hold the line against outrageous charges; now they let them slide, normalizing smear tactics and abandoning the public square to performative outrage.
Conservative commentators like Megyn Kelly were right to call out both Omar and Brennan, because this episode encapsulates a larger rot: the left’s reflex to delegitimize anyone who challenges mass migration, and the mainstream media’s eagerness to validate those delegitimizations rather than interrogate them. Americans who care about honest debate and national security should be furious that a major network allowed a member of Congress to fling the Holocaust into a policy argument without pushback.
This is about more than personalities — it’s about the corruption of our civic discourse. When policy disagreements are met with historically grotesque name-calling and anchors decline to correct the record, we lose the ability to talk sensibly about how to protect our borders, our communities, and our shared future. Patriots should demand better: tough questions, honest answers, and a media that refuses to let smear replace substance.
