Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe as grand marshal in the 2013 Twin Cities Pride parade in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Wikimedia Commons/Tony Webster Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe as grand marshal in the 2013 Twin Cities Pride parade in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Wikimedia Commons/Tony Webster Naomi LaChanceFebruary 26, 2025 Chris Kluwe, a former NFL player, was arrested last week and charged with a misdemeanor after he said that the Trump movement is “explicitly a Nazi movement.” He made the statements at a city council meeting in Huntington Beach, Calif., his hometown. In a piece published Wednesday, he told the Guardian that he hopes his action will inspire others. “Kluwe hopes his protest will inspire other concerned citizens across the country to take a stand and motivate Democratic lawmakers in particular to fight harder. ‘Right now, the Democratic party is contributing nothing to trying to defend our nation,’ says Kluwe, who had been on the phone with party operatives before clicking over to talk to me. I asked whether he was interested in running for office himself, but he said he was more interested in the power of civil disobedience,” Lawrence writes. “MAGA stands for resegregation and racism,” he said to the city council. “MAGA stands for censorship and book bans. … MAGA is a profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy and most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat but that is what it is.”
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„MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for resegregation and racism. MAGA stands for censorship and book bans. MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing. MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal. MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide. MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children … MAGA stands for hate, and fear, and the idea that we should have a king instead of co-equal branches of government.“