Rachel Maddow says Trump supporters buying his 'Hitleresque' rhetoric, Internet agrees with her

MANHATTAN, NEW YORK: Even while a lot of people in the nation learned over the weekend about threats against synagogues in their state, it wasn't until Sunday and Monday that it became evident that a well-planned act of terrorism was taking place throughout the country.

On Monday, December 18, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow warned that there were hundreds of threats ranging from California to Maine and Florida to Washington state, not just a few in Washington, DC and Mississippi.

According to USA Today, there were more false bomb threats in a single day than the US had in an entire year in 2022 which they charted to be at 200.

Later, CNN estimated the number of threats to be more than 400 in a single day, which was eye-opening, to say the least.

Donald Trump allegedly using his speech to incite hatred among Americans

This is all happening while Donald Trump is claiming that his opponents are "vermin" and are "poisoning the blood" of the nation.

Trump kept making these statements after being informed that they were 'Hitler-esque'.

Republicans are now downplaying what was said, with Senator Lindsey Graham saying that policies and outcomes matter more than language, per Raw Story.

Trump is allegedly using his speech to incite hatred among Americans by threatening to wipe out specific groups of individuals, according to Maddow.

The goal is to provide the impression to the American people that it will take a "strong man"—not Congress, the law, or the courts—to preserve the nation.

Only Trump and a temporary dictatorship are required, as he explained in his campaign speeches.

Maddow explained, “It makes people want to put a strong man in charge. 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."

Maddow clarified that what ought to happen, however, is that people should make it unacceptable for him to continue.

She asked, "Why is it that even after everybody pointed out those were Hitleresque and Mussoliniesque statements, he kept doing them?"

“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? 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," Maddow added.

 

She highlighted a survey conducted over the weekend by the Des Moines Register that polled Iowa Republicans about recent remarks made by Trump along these lines and whether or not they would increase or decrease their likelihood of supporting him.

And to nobody’s shock, horror, or surprise, they said that they loved it.

Maddow continued, "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 explained.

Internet agrees with Rachel Maddow’s assessment of the ongoing situation

People on X criticized Trump’s most obvious anti-immigrant rhetoric and applauded Maddow for elucidating the ongoing happenings to the Americans.

One X user said, “The fascist playbook."

Another user wrote, "The only problem we have is trump."

A user stated, "I think they are also being said now to de-sensitize people. Same then over and over and they won’t seem so threatening later. “Just Trump being Trump”."

"She's analyzed Trump perfectly," one user tweeted

"And there are millions of Americans who would gladly give up democracy in lieu of “white Christian only society”. They would happily eliminate their right to vote to achieve it," another X user said.

One user remarked, "And so Trump begins again. His four years as president were a disaster. He's saying the same things that made him a pariah & national disgrace, incapable of representing ALL Americans, the first time. We know better now."

 

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