Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell isn't repudiating the idea that raising the minimum wage would lead to fascism. At the same Koch brothers gathering at which McConnell
sneered at the notion of the Senate raising the minimum wage, Richard Fink, a top Koch brothers political strategist, suggested that raising the minimum wage
would lead to fascism.
Fink minced no words, saying, among other things, that "This is not just in Germany. It's in Russia, in Lenin, and Stalin Russia, and then Mao. This is the recruitment ground for fascism." Yes, just from increasing the minimum wage so that jobs pay enough for people to live on.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has called on McConnell—who, again, was present at the event at which Fink made these claims—to repudiate this view. But when The Undercurrent's Lauren Windsor asked McConnell about it directly, he had no response beyond a slight head shake. So I guess we can put Mitch McConnell down as tacitly onboard with the view that raising the minimum wage is like Hitler. Which is a pretty radical view considering that in poll after poll, strong majorities of Americans support a higher minimum wage.