Dana Bash Watches Nazis Marching in Ohio and Says, ‘We Don’t Know What Side of the Aisle This Comes From’

CNN’s Dana Bash said it is unclear whether a group of Neo-Nazis marching in Ohio were far right or far left extremists.

On Saturday in Columbus, about a dozen people marched through the city carrying Nazi flags and yelling racial epithets. CNN highlighted a video in which at least one marcher repeatedly shouts the n-word.

Bash interviewed Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH) on Monday’s edition of Inside Politics on CNN, where she asked the congressman to react to the far-right hate-mongers in his state.

“A group of Neo-Nazis paraded through that city wearing, waving swastikas, covering their faces,” Bash said. “This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened in Ohio in particular. And, of course, it’s continuing to spread. We don’t know what side of the aisle this comes from. I mean, typically Neo-Nazis are from the far right. You had protests from the far left at your House as a Jewish member.”

“Yeah, they slept outside my house for days,” Landsman replied, referring to pro-Palestine protestors who set up camp outside his home to protest his support for Israel and its war in Gaza after the Oct. 7 attacks. “My takeaway is this has got to stop. And the surge of anti-Semitism is global, but it’s certainly here in the United States, and it does require leaders on both sides of the aisle to say, ‘Don’t do that.'”

“Is your party doing that enough?” the host asked.

“I think some in my party are doing a ton, and some are silent,” he replied.

In May, Bash likened the levels of anti-Semitism in the U.S. to “the 1930s in Europe.”