Maddow sounds the alarm that voters are loving Donald Trump's new Hitleresque campaign
While many people in the country heard about synagogue threats in their state over the weekend it wasn't until Sunday and Monday that it became clear there was a coordinated act of terrorism unfolding across the United States.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow sounded the alarm on Monday that it wasn't merely the few threats in Mississippi and a handful in Washington, D.C., but hundreds of threats from California to Maine and Florida to Washington state. USA Today explained that there were more threats in a single day than the U.S. had in an entire year in 2022. They charted 200. CNN later calculated over 400 threats.
All of this is unfolding as Donald Trump talked about his foes being "vermin" and "poisoning the blood" of the country. Even after being told it was Hitleresque, Trump continued to say them. Now, Republicans are downplaying the comments. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that language isn't important, what is important is policy and results. He wasn't asked whether language like "Heil Hitler" would be too much "language" if the policy was what he wanted.
Maddow said that the reason that Trump is using the rhetoric, threatening to exterminate certain people, is to turn Americans against each other. It's designed to make Americans think they need a "strong man" to save the country, not laws, the judicial system, Congress, or anything else. Only Trump is needed and a temporary dictatorship, as he explained.
"It makes people want to put a strong man in charge," Maddow explained. "To break all the rules and destroy those very scary enemies, right? Iron fist. There's been all this discussion, I know, in the past few days, about the former president, the Republican presidential frontrunner playing a fascist dictator's greatest hits tape. I will root out the vermin amongst us. Immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country. There's been a lot of discussion about that in recent days and there should be."
What isn't happening that needs to, however, is that people should make it unacceptable for him to continue.
"Why is it that even after everybody pointed out those were Hitleresque and Mussoliniesque statements, he kept doing them?" Maddow asked. "These are things he has tried out in the last few weeks and is now repeating them and putting them in writing and making them part of his regular speeches. Why is he doing that? Because they are getting a good response. A good response, a response that he likes. Not just the outrage of his critics which he likes, but the pleasure and support of the people who like him the most."
She cited a poll from the "Des Moines Register" over the weekend, that asked Iowa Republicans about Trump's recent statements along these lines, the poll asked whether these comments from Trump would make you more or less likely to support him. They loved it.
"On his claim that immigrants are poisoning the blood of America, which is straight out of "Mein Kampf," on the vermin in the United States that needs to be rooted out, which comes straight out of the playbook of Mussolini and Hitler, even on his pledge to build giant camps to hold millions of people in this country, on those statements, Iowa Republican voters say as of this weekend that those statements from Trump make them more likely to vote for him, not less."
The reason that they sound familiar is that they work and people reuse them, Maddow said.
See her opener in the videos below or at the link here.
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