With election day, a little more than a week, Kamala Harris Donald Trump describes a fascist after reports revealing the obsession of the former president of the dictator, including that he expressed his admiration for the way Hitler runs his army. on Washington Week with the Atlantic OceanThe committee members discussed how Trump is not like any other speech used in the modern era of American policy.
Ann Abbattan explained last night that the language that Trump used, such as saying that immigrants “poison our blood” and that his “left -wing radical thugs” opponents who “live like insects” can be returned to authoritarian leaders in the thirties of the twentieth century. “Leaders who use fascist tactics will divide the nation into real people and strangers – migrants, foreigners and traitors – and seek to create a kind of hate worship against them in order to build the majority of the majority.”
Whether Trump’s rising speech will have an effect on voters is an open question. According to Dan Balz, Trump’s basic base remains sincere for the former president: “What we saw in the establishment of Trump is a country where there are followers who accept this as a way to talk about others and a way to talk about the state of the country,” said last night.
Many Republican leaders also continue to adhere to Trump. According to Jerusalem Demsas, this can be partially explained through politics gains, especially abortion, which Republicans have witnessed in recent years. “Despite the fact that they have hatred in how to participate in politics, [he] I have obtained a lot of things on the taxes and the policy they really keep, dear. “
Join the editor -in -chief Atlantic OceanJeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Ann Abbom, a staff writer Atlantic Ocean; Dan Balz, a political correspondent in Washington Post; Dana Bash, the main political correspondence in CNN; And Jerusalem Demsas, the employee writer Atlantic Ocean.
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