President Donald Trump's heavy-handed tactics in Minneapolis as people gather to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement and defend their communities, are only going to make things worse for him and turn people further against his agenda, MS NOW analyst Chai Komanduri told "The Beat" anchor Ari Melber on Friday evening.
Melber played a number of clips of recent altercations between protesters and federal agents, showing officers screaming at nonviolent protesters, accusing them of obstructing enforcement, physically assaulting them, and deploying chemical spray.
"I mean, that is just thuggish actions," said Komanduri.
"You know what it actually reminds me of? There's a very famous video ... in 1968, at the Chicago convention, Democratic Chicago convention, Mayor Daley sent the police in to attack people on the floor of the convention," said Komanduri. "And there's a video of Dan Rather, I believe, talking to Walter Cronkite. And Cronkite just calls them thugs. You know, they're just thugs."
This chaos, he noted, "actually led to Americans not choosing Democrats in 1968 because they saw disorder and thuggishness on part of the Democratic mayor of Chicago, and an inability to control themselves on the part of the Democratic Party, that I think is also going to be a factor here."
"You know, Stephen Miller and Donald Trump simply don't what they know is the bully's tactics, which is we're just going to keep punching," he added. "But as George Foreman found out against Ali, sometimes that's not enough. You know, the problem, I think, for Americans is how much damage does Trump do before he punches himself out?"
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