"The View" co-host Joy Behar sounded the alarm on the increasingly dehumanizing rhetoric coming from President Donald Trump and his allies.
Behar warned Wednesday that tactic has historically preceded waves of state-sanctioned violence, as Trump and his apologists defend child detention centers for immigrants.
"It seems as though the rhetoric is getting worse, to me," Behar said. "We have Ann Coulter -- nobody takes her seriously any way -- she says they are actors. We have Laura Ingraham saying this is summer camp. We have Corey Lewandowski (saying) 'womp-womp' on a Down syndrome child."
She then quoted the president's tweet from Tuesday, blaming Democrats for the directive he ordered and could end.
Democrats are the problem. They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be,… https://t.co/ASy1D9UXLy— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1529416344.0
"Now, the word 'infest,' I think, is a buzzword," Behar said. "The Nazis used it against the Jews, they said vermin. In the Vietnam War, they were calling the North Vietnamese the gooks. This is a way to dehumanize human beings."
"Once you start calling people names about that they're insects, vermin, that they're lower than humans -- then the murders can begin," she added. "I'm not saying that's happening, I'm not saying that's happening. I'm looking at history. I want people to notice the rhetoric."
