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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Trump's Use Of "The Enemy Within" Should Scare EVERYONE

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

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Politics, Government, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

After a weekend full of unhinged rallies and speeches, one thing is certain - Trump's fascism is clearly on display and out in the open. Steve Schmidt breaks down the latest rhetoric from Trump and explains the similarities he shares with history's worst leaders. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/

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0:00.0

It is October 14th, 24. 24, 22 days remain until the American people will go to the polls by the tens of millions and choose between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

0:13.2

One of those two will become the 47th president of the United States. They will hold the most powerful office in the world. This is the warning.

0:25.2

Donald Trump pulled down the veil this weekend. Donald Trump revealed exactly who he is,

0:32.9

and there's no going back from it. Let's understand something. What Donald Trump is saying has been said before.

0:40.0

I'll talk more about that in a minute. But before I do, I want to make clear that we live in a time

0:47.2

of hyperbole and exaggeration. I've been accused of it, I think unfairly, because what I've talked about for 10 years, I've done my best to talk about with precision as a warning about what was coming around who Donald Trump is and what his movement is and what it's become and can still become. It is dangerous. It is un-American.

1:14.5

We stand at an hour that has been prophesied by people skeptical about the future. America has

1:23.7

arrived at its most dangerous authoritarian moment across its entire vast 248-year history.

1:34.4

There have been moments before when Charles Lindbergh revealed himself in 1940 in his speech

1:42.0

in Des Moines, where he blamed the coming Second World War on the Jews.

1:47.9

Mostly, his speech was greeted with revulsion.

1:51.4

And one of the reasons why was Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sitting in the Oval Office

1:56.7

and understood the moral catastrophe which Limberg represented, that fascism represented. And thus,

2:05.6

he was able to communicate about it, able to warn about it, able to be clear with the American

2:12.8

people who were slow to awaken to the dangers of it about what was coming, about the threat at hand.

2:20.0

In the end, the American people paid a terrible price to stop fascism. But in the end, at the

2:27.8

end of that war, the United States was left as the most powerful nation in world history.

2:34.0

And it authored a period, an era, an epoch of

2:38.5

history that historians called the American century, that climaxed in the triumph of liberal

2:46.2

free market capitalism and democracy over totalitarianism against communism with the fall of the Berlin

2:54.5

wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. A lot of people in that moment said history was at its end,

3:02.4

that we had arrived at an enlightened summit from which there would be no slide back ever, that it wasn't possible,

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