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Matthew Knickerbocker is at it again.
The Democrat candidate for Connecticut’s 32nd State Senate District—and longtime Bethel Democrat Town Committee chair, former First Selectman, and recent Wilton town administrator—keeps flooding his Facebook page with posts equating the Trump administration and its supporters to Nazis and the Gestapo.
His latest post features a two-panel comic showing a normal office conversation about “stop talking politics” that morphs into a swastika-filled Nazi office complete with Hitler portraits and “Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer” banners, captioned “can we talk politics now?”
Knickerbocker has also posted that certain actors are “Murderous, callous, lying masked thugs. Just as bad as Nazi Germany. Worse, really, because the Gestoppo never wore face masks.” (For the record, it’s Gestapo—though getting the name of the secret police right is apparently optional when you’re busy comparing everything to Nazi Germany.)
Knickerbocker also reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the policies he champions. In one post he shares content insisting that no one in America or the West actually wants socialism, claiming Europe, Canada, and New Zealand merely practice “social democracy”—capitalism plus a safety net that guarantees no medical bankruptcy, free education, and no one left on the streets as “simple human rights.”
Days earlier he celebrated New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for going after DoorDash, writing that the outcome is “EXACTLY why New Yorkers and so many Americans” support Mamdani and AOC while dismissing any talk of Democratic “socialism” or “communism” as a “scary bogeyman.”
The contradiction is obvious: he embraces a self-described democratic socialist mayor whose platform includes aggressive rent controls, wealth taxes, and expansive public ownership experiments, then pretends the ideology is just harmless European-style social democracy. For a candidate seeking a state senate seat, the inability to distinguish between those models—or to acknowledge the economic trade-offs—is not a minor rhetorical slip.
The Centinal has previously documented Knickerbocker’s pattern of comparing Trump to Hitler, sharing “Punch a Nazi” content, claiming MAGA is Nazism, and warning that the country is following the same road as 1930s Germany. He has framed the administration as a “lawless regime,” accused it of creating a “moral slum,” and treated routine immigration enforcement and political disagreement as the second coming of the Third Reich.
While Knickerbocker campaigns on “standing up to MAGA-driven extremism,” his own posts reveal a consistent pattern of historical illiteracy. In one graphic he shared, he declares that “right-wing rage gave us the KKK” while “left-wing rage gave us the weekend.”
The original Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six Confederate veterans and operated as a terrorist arm of Southern Democrats resisting Republican Reconstruction governments and Black civil rights.
The claim is not a minor slip; it is part of the same pattern in which every political disagreement is framed as the return of the Third Reich or the Klan. Voters in the 32nd District can decide whether that version of history—and the constant Nazi and KKK analogies that accompany it—qualifies as the voice of a serious state Senate candidate.
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