This Trump trait makes him 'even more dangerous' than Hitler and Mussolini: ex-Dem senator

21 November 2023

Former US Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) is raising red flags about former President Donald Trump's increasingly authoritarian rhetoric on the campaign stump.

In a Tuesday evening segment on MSNBC's Deadline: White House, McCaskill told guest host Elise Jordan that Trump — who will likely be the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election — has a unique trait that makes him far more dangerous than some of the most notorious dictators of the 20th century, including Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

"[Trump] has no philosophy he believes in," McCaskill said. "He is not trying to expand the boundaries in the United States of America. He is not trying to overcome a neighboring country like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin in Ukraine. He is not going for a grandiose scheme of international dominance. All he wants is to look in the mirror and see a guy who is president. all he cares about is selfish self-promotion."

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"That's the only philosophy he has. which makes him even more dangerous because he is actually said out loud it would be okay to terminate the Constitution to keep him in power. he said this. he actually said those words," she continued. "The irony is, all of these supposed conservative folks that have populated the Republican Party all stood around with their thumb in their mouth going, 'well, yeah, okay, I guess so.' It's bizarre."

Trump's recent remarks during a New Hampshire campaign stop, in which he pledged to "root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections" prompted widespread condemnation from Democrats. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker recently told MSNBC host Jen Psaki "the things that [Trump] talks about are frightening to those of us who know the history of Europe in the 1930s and 40s."

Republicans, however, have been largely silent about Trump's remarks, with the exception of former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, who said she disagreed with Trump calling his political opponents "vermin."

"I think he means well. But the chaos has got to stop," Haley said at a Friday campaign stop in Iowa.

McCaskill was joined on the panel with Bulwark editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes, Vanity Fair special correspondent Molly Jong-Fast, and Washington Post investigative reporter Carol Leonnig.

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