Former President Donald Trump is only going to keep cranking up the hatred in his rhetoric more and more, regardless of the consequences, warned conservative attorney George Conway on Friday's edition of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."
This comes after Trump claimed that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country" — a phrase that drew immediate condemnation and comparisons to Nazism by some political observers.
"The phrase he used, it has such clear historical antecedents, even somebody as poorly read as the former president certainly knows where that phrase comes from, that idea comes from," said Cooper. "He knows the words he's using."
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"Right," agreed Conway. "He's not a very intelligent man. But he does have a reptilian form of intellect that really lends itself to this kind of rhetoric. And he is profoundly, profoundly psychopathic in the way that he expresses himself. But if you go back to 2017, like you just did, and 2016 and 2015, the people who first figured out Donald Trump were the historians, the historians of authoritarianism, the historians of international relations, and the psychologists. And the reason that they all figured it out is because they came at Donald Trump from two different angles. One, from the mindset of what the interworkings of his mind. The other, from what he says and how he commands the affections or desires of people. And that's the authoritarian part."
"What we see here is a man with lacking — completely lacking in morality, lacking in conscience, lacking in remorse, lacking in empathy, completely a man without a soul," Conway continued. "And the type of thing that he is — what he preaches is hatred. And he preaches hatred because this is the way he can save himself and gain power. And right now, he's getting worse. They always get worse, the sociopaths, the psychopaths like a Hitler or a Putin. They get worse over time as they become more and more desperate."
"That's what's happening with Donald Trump," added Conway. "We're seeing this rhetoric, the rhetoric about blood poisoning here, the rhetoric about executing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, all sorts of rhetoric that basically is designed to foment hatred and violence. That is what — that is in his nature, and that is how he plans to wield power and to gain it back."
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