Republicans often bristle when critics draw parallels between Donald Trump’s movement and Nazi Germany, calling such comparisons unfair or hysterical.

But in the Friday episode of Today in Ohio , the news discussion podcast from cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer, hosts said those same Republicans are now looking away as Nazi symbols and rhetoric take root in their own ranks — even inside the office of a sitting congressman.

Friday’s conversation, began with the startling image of a swastika embedded in a U.S. flag hanging behind a staffer during a Zoom call from Ohio Congressman Dave Taylor’s office. The photo, which spread quickly online, showed the flag pinned neatly to a bulletin board — not the work of vandals, the hosts said, but a deliberate display.

Taylor claimed “office vand

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