Republican former Tennessee state Senator Frank Nicely, who at the very least admired Adolf Hitler’s work ethic, was found dead on his tractor on his family farm, likely from a heart attack, just a year after he was primaried out of the seat he had held since 2012, the AP reports.
Nicely reached national fame in 2022 when he rose to speak in favor of a bill banning homeless encampments in the state, saying “Thank you, Mr Speaker. I haven’t given y’all a history lesson in a while, and I want to give you a little history on homelessness. In 1910, Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while. So for two years, Hitler lived on the streets and practiced his oratory and body language and how to connect with the masses, and then went on to lead a life that got him into history books. So for a lot of these people, it’s not a dead end. They can come out of homeless camps and have a productive life, or in Hitler’s case, a very unproductive life. I support this bill.”
The year before he commented on companies based in northern cities to the South, by saying “I think I can tell my grandson the war between the states is still going on and we’re winning.”