Jon Stewart was called out for suggesting that Germany would revert to Nazism without the military influence of the United States. Former Mitt Romney advisor Oren Cass appeared on Stewart's show to discuss President Donald Trump's tariffs and his forthcoming book, 'The New Conservatives.' While discussing the role the U.S. military should play in overseas conflicts, specifically in Europe and Russia, Stewart alluded to the last time Germany was in the position of being a 'global military power': World War II. Cass called Stewart's remark a 'weird racist critique of Germans' and disagreed with the suggestion that Germany would revert to Nazism without U.S. financial support.