So we spent $4 trillion and sustained 418,000 casualties to defeat the Nazis and their allies. Now we have American Nazis arm-in-arm with the Klan calling for race war and a fascist US government,and an NCGOP senator says those who oppose it are as bad as the Nazis- who are still pure evil?

With a degree in philosophy and 20+ years' courtroom experience, I like to think I know my way around logic and rational thought.

But Mecklenburg County State Senator Dan Bishop has me flummoxed, and not for the first time.

The Charlotte Observer reports he

said on Twitter Sunday that the “racist alt-right must be condemned” along with Antifa, an umbrella term for an activist anti-fascist movement, and Black Lives Matter, a group protesting police brutality and advocating for equality and black civil rights.

Bishop did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.

Another Twitter user, Jeb Stuart, whose profile says he is from Charlotte, asked Bishop whether he was equating BLM with those who wave Nazi flags.

Bishop said yes, “both violent, racist movements.”

Stuart: “What is racist about acknowledging the humanity of black people?”

Bishop: “I had in mind their chant ‘pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon.’ But knew better than to expect reciprocal decency.”

Stuart: “Individuals vary, but are the fundamental purposes of those movements morally equivalent?”

Bishop: “Chants usually collective acts. And my condemnation of extremists is unreciprocated.”

Dozens of Twitter users had responded to Bishop’s tweet by Monday in opposition to his comments.

One of the responses came from Wake County Commissioner John Burns, who told Bishop to resign.