From first link:
" ... After Biden’s election, he, Democrats, and media urge a “return to civility.
... Former Rep. William Clay Sr., D-Mo., said President Ronald Reagan was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from ‘Mein Kampf.'”
... Coretta Scott King, in 1980, said, “I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and a resurgence of the Nazi Party.”
After Republicans took control of the House in the mid-’90s, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., compared the newly conservative-majority House to “the Duma and the Reichstag,” referring to the legislature set up by Czar Nicholas II of Russia and the parliament of the German Weimar Republic that brought Hitler to power.
... Donna Brazile, former Vice President Al Gore’s presidential campaign manager, in 1999, said: Republicans have a “white boy attitude, [which means,] ‘I must exclude, denigrate, and leave behind.’ They don’t see it or think about it. It’s a culture.”
... After Hurricane Katrina, Democratic Missouri Senate candidate Claire McCaskill said George W. Bush “let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black.”
... Then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, in 2006, said, “The [Republican-controlled] House of Representatives … has been run like a plantation. And you know what I’m talking about.”
... Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic National Committee chairwoman in 2011, said “Republicans … want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws.”
From second link:
... Then-Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., former vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee and now the Minnesota attorney general, compared President George W. Bush and 9/11 to Adolf Hitler and the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament building: “9/11 is the juggernaut in American history and it allows … it’s almost like, you know, the Reichstag fire,” Ellison said. “After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader of that country (Hitler) in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted.”
... About Hurricane Katrina, then-Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said in 2006 that President George W. Bush’s administration engaged in “ethnic cleansing by inaction. … So by simply not doing anything to alleviate this … they let the hurricane do the ethnic cleansing, and their hands are clean.”
... After the 2012 Republican National Convention and the nomination of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, then-California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton said, “[Republicans] lie, and they don’t care if people think they lie. As long as you lie, [Nazi propaganda minister] Joseph Goebbels—the big lie—you keep repeating it.”
... During the 2012 presidential race, then-Vice President Joe Biden told a heavily black audience that Romney, accused of opposing more Wall Street regulation, is “gonna put y’all back in chains.”
... Longtime Harlem Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., in 2014, said, “Some [Republicans] believe that slavery isn’t over, and they think they won the Civil War.”
Finally, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton famously said: “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And [Republican opponent Donald Trump] has lifted them up.”
When exactly was this era of “civility” when Democrats did not call a Republican president “racist” or “fascist” or, in the case of President George W. Bush, a warmonger who “lied us into war with Iraq” "
