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The Dershow

Condemning Extremists: Neither candidate will do it.

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In the first presidential debate, neither candidate was willing to condemn their own side. It's easy to condemn the other side's extremists but the true test is will they condemn their own side's extremists.

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0:00.0

You know it's so easy for people on the right to condemn extremists on the left and for people on the left to condemn extremists on the right be principled.

0:10.0

If you're a person on the left condemn the extremism of the left.

0:14.4

If you're a person of the right, condemn the extremism of the hard right.

0:19.2

You're going to hear more about why both candidates failed that test in the first presidential debate here

0:26.2

under Dursha.

0:27.4

When it comes to condemning hate speech and violence, no one distinguished

0:36.8

themselves during the first presidential debate.

0:40.8

President Trump clearly should have taken the opportunity to unequivocally say he condemns all white supremacy groups.

0:51.0

He condemns proud boys. he condemns the clan, he condemns the Nazi party, he

0:56.8

condemns anyone that regards themselves as a white supremacist. Now he has said some of that in the past after Charlottesville he did

1:04.9

condemn the Nazi party. He did condemn the clan. But he should take every

1:09.7

occasion as president of the United States, every occasion, every opportunity, unequivocally and

1:17.1

without reservation to condemn them even if they are going to vote for him, especially if they are going to vote for him,

1:22.8

especially if they're going to vote for him.

1:24.9

He shouldn't give them any credibility.

1:26.9

He shouldn't give them any opportunity

1:29.3

to use what he said in support of, I had never heard of proud boys. I had never heard of proud boys.

1:36.9

I didn't even know what they were. In fact, it was Vice President Biden who apparently first mentioned proud boys kind of in a whisper

1:45.5

even before the president mentioned them.

1:47.8

But the president should never have said proud boys stand down and standby. Stand by sounds like we're waiting for an opportunity to invoke you.

2:01.0

He should have been clear. He was clear afterward and he did say stand down, stand

2:06.7

down. He should have gone even further than that. But I have to tell you I was also disappointed with Joe Biden and how he dealt with Antifa.

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