A blog post attributed to the person listed as the Department of Homeland Security’s speechwriter celebrated the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and likened the resulting political fallout for conservatives to slavery and the Holocaust.
“American conservatives are, right now, on a course for being every bit as ostracized and alienated from broader society as Jews were in the years leading up to Nazi Germany,” said a 2021 blog post by Eric Lendrum about the riot on a conservative opinion and news website called American Greatness, where the author published until March 2025.
On an episode of his podcast, “The Right Take,” which is listed as Lendrum’s on his author blurb for the conservative site, he said he enjoyed watching videos of scared lawmakers.