Finchem compares hotel chain to ... Hitler?

A hotel chain decides it doesn’t want to be associated with a U.S. senator who led the charge to overthrow the results of the presidential election.

If you’re an elected official from Arizona, do you:

A. Applaud the hotel because it took a stand for democracy and more specifically, for Arizona, one of two states targeted because its electoral votes went to Joe Biden?

Or B. Denounce the hotel because cancelling a hotel reservation is just one step away from the Holocaust?

If you’re state Rep. Mark Finchem, I think you can guess the answer.

This Oro Valley Republican has been screaming about fraud in Arizona’s election for months, howling to “stop the steal” despite eight failed lawsuits and a complete lack of any actual evidence that the fix was in.

Finchem was on hand for the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, though there’s no evidence he joined his peeps in storming the Capitol, beating up police officers and defacing those hallowed hallways with feces.

Finchem did, however, justify the violent attempt to stop Congress from certifying the results of the election, something that earned him an ethics complaint filed last week by a Democratic state legislator.

“What happens when the People feel they have been ignored, and Congress refuses to acknowledge rampant fraud. #stopthesteal,” Finchem tweeted, as the Capitol was under attack.

Now, it seems, Fichem is mad that actions have consequences.

Specifically, that Loews Hotels has canceled a fundraiser for Sen. Josh Hawley at Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando.

Hawley is one of the poster boys of the Jan. 6 attack on democracy.

For two months, the Missouri Republican never missed an opportunity to ratchet up anger over Biden’s supposed theft of the election, spreading the baseless conspiracy theories relentlessly pitched by people like Finchem and state GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward — that Arizona’s vote (and thus, America’s vote) had been stolen from President Donald Trump.

Hawley was the first Republican senator to object to certifying the vote. An hour before the Jan. 6 riot, he was photographed cheering protesters outside the Capitol, his fist raised in a show of solidarity.

Later, he feigned shock and decried the violence that he had helped foment. This, even as he continued his push to stop the certification of Biden’s win (as did all four Republicans in Arizona’s congressional delegation).

Now, nobody wants to be anywhere near this guy.

Both of Missouri’s major newspapers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Kansas City Star, have called on

him to resign. The Star said Hawley “has blood on his hands” and is the secondmost culpable person for the attacks.

Former Missouri Sen. John Danforth called his support to help Hawley get elected in 2018 “the worst mistake I ever made in my life.” Kansas City-based Hallmark sent Hawley a nice card, asking him to refund its campaign contributions. Simon & Schuster has canceled the upcoming publication of Hawley's book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech.”

Now comes Loews, saying it doesn’t want to be associated with a leper.

“We are horrified and opposed to the events at the Capitol and all who supported and incited the actions,” the company tweeted on Saturday. “In light of those events and for the safety of our guests and team members, we have informed the host of the Feb. fundraiser that it will no longer be held at Loews Hotels.”

Hawley predictably has wrapped himself in the cloak of victimhood, saying the cancellations by Simon & Schuster and Loews are no less than an attack on the First Amendment.

“If these corporations don’t want conservatives to speak, they should just be honest about it,” he said. “But to equate leading a debate on the floor of the Senate with inciting violence is a lie, and it’s dangerous.”

Finchem, whose

district

includes

Loews Ventana Resort, has taken it one mega-giant step further.

“Lowe’s (sic) has permanently lost my business,” he tweeted Sunday. “This is what Hitler and Stalin did, what’s next camps? Ovens? Patriots, you might want to #cancelLoews reservations.”

Yeah, patriots, because the first step toward genocide is always the cancellation of a resort hotel reservation.

Because Loews, a corporation that decided it doesn’t want to be associated with a senator who incited a riot, is just like a pair of dictators who killed tens of millions of people. Sure, why not?

You can drop the whole victim thing, Rep. Finchem (and Sen. Hawley). No one is cancelling your right to be exactly who you are.

Neither Simon & Schuster nor Loews has forbidden Hawley from spouting lies and undermining the public’s confidence in elections. They just don’t want any part of it when those lies lead to sedition, as is their right being ... you know ... private businesses.

Despite how far-right zealots so desperately want to frame it, this isn’t the cancel culture run amok. These are American companies making a statement, as is their right, that if you incite or support or justify insurrection, then you’re not a patriot. You’re a traitor.

You don't get to scream, without evidence, for two months about a stolen election then say, “Who me?” when your supporters respond.

Own it, sirs.