Thursday, November 09, 2023

Hilary Clinton Likens Trump to Hitler and Warns He Would End Democracy

THE GUARDIAN: Former senator and secretary of state says Nazi leader was initially elected and that ‘Trump is telling us what he intends to do’

Hillary Clinton warned that Donald Trump back in the White House ‘would be the end of our country as we know it, and I don’t say that lightly’. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

Hillary Clinton has compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler as she offered a blunt warning about the dangers of a second Trump presidency.

Trump back in the White House, Clinton said during an appearance on ABC’s daytime talkshow The View on Wednesday, “would be the end of our country as we know it, and I don’t say that lightly”.

The former first lady, senator and secretary of state said: “When I was secretary of state, I used to talk about ‘one and done’. What I meant by that is that people would get legitimately elected and then they would try to do away with elections, and do away with opposition, and do away with a free press.”

Then Clinton added: “Hitler was duly elected. All of a sudden somebody with those tendencies, dictatorial, authoritarian tendencies, would be like ‘OK we’re gonna shut this down, we’re gonna throw these people in jail.’ And they didn’t usually telegraph that. Trump is telling us what he intends to do.” » | Sam Levine | Thursday, November 9, 2023

Hillary Clinton is absolutely right to compare Trump with Hitler. Trump would be a very dangerous choice for president. Somehow, the USA and the world managed to get through his first term in office – with difficultry. But a second term in office, especially with the world in the state it is now in, it would be far more difficult to do so. The man is unhinged. He’d be more suited to running a brothel rather than a country! Frankly, one would have to have a screw loose to vote for Trump for president for a second term. In any case, why are the authorities taking so long to lock him up? Surely with all those indictments, courts would have plenty of reason to open the jail doors and then demand that the keys be thrown away! (Just as Trump wanted be done with Hillary Clinton. Lest we forget!) By locking Trump up, the people would be spared from disaster. – © Mark Alexander

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