On MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell Tuesday, host-for-the-day Ari Melber made a frankly insulting comment against those who complain about the "war on Christmas": their problem is either "ignorance" or "anti-Semitism."

As reported by Newsbusters, after showing a 2015 video of candidate Trump promising to use the words "Merry Christmas" as President, Melber accused Trump of taking slogans that didn't belong to him. For examples, he cited "Make America Great Again" and "Drain the Swamp." Melber then made a puzzling attempt to connect claims of a war on Christmas to anti-Semitic underpinnings:

"And claims of a 'war on Christmas' have been ricocheting around Fox News for many years, but Fox is just one more stop in a long chain of custody that gets uglier the farther back you go because the first rumblings about a 'war on Christmas' stem back to the fringe John Birch Society in anti-Semitic pamphlets in the 1920s called 'The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem.'"

So if you resist the atheist left's attempts to diminish Christmas traditions, you're being anti-Semitic?

How does that logic apply to the socialist-loving Left, given that Hitler's "Nazi" stood for "National Socialist"?

Melber didn't bother with logic; he was too busy trying to push a connection between Trump supporters and Jew-hatred:

"The nicest thing you can hope for with today's 'war on Christmas' crowd is that they are ignorant of the dark road they have wandered down."

Actually, that sounds a lot like the socialist-loving Left.

Melber then read a "Merry Christmas" tweet from Trump, and attempted again to link Fox News and hate for Jews with holiday cheer:

MELBER: Fox News cheered this victory right on cue.

PAULA WHITE, TRUMP EVANGELICAL ADVISORY BOARD: Trump hasn't just put Christ back into Christmas, but he's also put prayer back into the White House. He's put justice back into -- and religious freedom back into our courts. He's done so much.

MELBER: That is Fox News basically thanking Trump for winning a long-running rhetorical war that, at best, is an ignorant misunderstanding and, to be clear, at worst, is a nod to decades of anti-Semitic hate.

Finally, Melber offered a bizarre warning to those who dare invoke the "war on Christmas," as if it constitutes evil by association:

"To bring it full circle -- that goes to informing friends and neighbors and people -- and there may be people who have no idea that this seemingly overblown, quote, unquote, "war," hails from the roots of anti-Semitism in the United States. And then it's, hey, it's Christmas spirit, it's time to talk to each other, listen to each other, but share that so people know what they're quoting."

Be warned: cultural Marxism demands you not speak the words. That's fascism, like the Nazis. Which is to say -- using Melber's logic -- like the Left.