Trump’s Alarming New Rant About Dems and “Hatred” Echoes Nixon’s Worst

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In a reference to the apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump over the weekend, the former president unleashed a long rant on social media blaming it all on Democrats. He insisted that because of Democratic rhetoric about Trump, the “bullets are flying, and it will only get worse.” Trump is systematically recasting any and all criticism of his attacks on democracy as incitement to violence—and in this, he’s fully backed up by other Republicans. We talked to Corey Brettschneider, a political scientist and author of The Presidents and the People, about how Trump is echoing Richard Nixon—and why we can’t let him get away with it. Listen to this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:35.2	In a reference to the apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump over the weekend,
1:40.6	the former president unleashed a long rant on social media blaming it all on Democrats.
1:46.5	He insisted that because of democratic rhetoric against Trump and democratic legal attacks on him, the bullets are flying and it will only get worse. This is deadly serious stuff.
1:53.9	Trump is systematically trying to recast any and all criticism of his attacks on democracy
1:59.2	as incitement to violence, and all law enforcement
2:02.8	activity directed at him, no matter how grounded in the rule of law, as purely partisan
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