In a podcast interview last week with former Nixon speechwriter and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” actor Ben Stein – wasn’t aware he was a full-on fascist, or still alive for that matter – Pennsylvania Republican governor candidate Doug Mastriano said the Capitol riot, which he was at, bore many historical parallels to the Reichstag fire, a false flag attack in 1933 that Adolf Hitler used as a pretext to seize more power for his Nazi regime, NBC News reports.

“The Nazis immediately seized upon it [the Reichstag fire] to impose emergency measures. I think something like this is happening with the Jan. 6 nonevent,” said Stein, adding the brutally violent MAGA insurrection was a “ridiculously trivial thing. It was not an insurrection. It was not an attempt to take over the government. It was a demonstration by a group that felt frustration by the statistical impossibility of the vote having gone the way the Democrats said it did.”

“I agree with the political, with the historic analogy laid out there, so using something that was very suspicious in Berlin to advance their agenda, you know, the national socialists there. I do see parallels,” said Mastriano, who was actually at the fucking Capitol riot, and had bussed dozens of Pennsylvania Trump fans there, a number of whom were prosecuted for felonies committed during the mayhem. So it’s not clear what he thinks the actual “parallels” are here. Actually breaking this down and trying to figure out what this crazy asshole is saying is proving far too difficult to even know where to begin with it so we’ll just end it here.