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In a PBS News Hour interview, Hillary Clinton attacked former President Donald Trump by labeling him a “wannabe dictator.”
The answer came after host Geoff Bennett asked her if she viewed Republican Trump supporters as “fascists.”
“On this matter of extremists within the GOP, President Biden has said that the Trump Republicans, the MAGA Republicans, as he puts it, are semi-fascists,” Bennett said. (Poll: Is Joe Biden Fit to be President? VOTE)
“And that there’s this growing authoritarian strain in the Republican Party,” Bennett stated.
“Do you see it that way? And what’s the best way to remedy that, if you do see it that way?” he questioned.
“I do see it that way,” Clinton responded.
“And I’m not — I’m not happy about saying that. And I know President Biden wasn’t happy, because it sounds so discordant to our ears,” she continued.
“How could we be growing a kind of authoritarian political force inside our country? The people who are at the leadership level of all of that, both elected and unelected, are promoting lies and being incredibly divisive and, frankly, being loyal to a wannabe dictator,” Clinton added.
“And how did we get here? I don’t know all the answers. Lots of people are writing books about that. But I do know you have to do several things.”
“You have to defeat those people at the polls. And there’s nothing more important than sending a resounding message. Let’s get back to regular politics.”
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“You and I can agree or disagree, as Democrats and Republicans from different regions of our country, different kinds of points of view, but let’s get back to having a fact-based political discussion, where, yes, OK, what do you think about climate change and how we’re going to deal with it, or what do you think about our economy and how we’re going to grow it?”
“Let’s have that kind of discussion. But let’s move away from the lies and the personal attacks and the kind of nonsense moves, like impeaching Joe Biden for nothing simply because you disagree with him politically.”
“I was in the Senate, as you know, for eight years. If you have ideas — speaking to the House extremists, if you have ideas about how we should govern our country, do the work you are elected to do.”
“Have committee meetings, mark up legislation, take votes. Then work to try to reconcile whatever the Senate comes up with.”
“That’s what used to happen, the so-called regular order. So go to work. Don’t be walking around engaging in Twitter fights and insults and personal attacks. That’s — that is not the way we’re supposed to govern ourselves. It’s no way for a great country to behave,” she concluded.
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