Joe Scarborough and Jon Meacham sounded the alarm Monday morning when they equated campaign rhetoric from former President Donald Trump to fascist rulers of the 1930s and “the Third Reich.”
During a weekend rally, Trump reiterated his Veterans Day pledge he posted on Truth Social that read: “In honor of our great Veterans on Veteran’s (sic) Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, lie, steal, and cheat on Elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America, and the American dream.”
Monday’s Morning Joe aired several of Trump’s more unhinged rants, ending with this comment, which led Scarborough to react in a manner that pleases the viewers that tune in for his keen anti-Trump insights.
“I think he should probably give some pay some royalties to Mussolini’s family trust,” Scarborough said, “because when he starts talking about rooting out communists, Marxists, radical left, vermin, destroying the country, it is it in the letter he’s lifting it from Mussolini and other fascists from the past.”
“And from the Third Reich!” Meacham interjected, adding, “And we’re using the 1930s as an example of anything is a fraught enterprise…” to which Scarborough interrupted with polite pushback. “John, it used to be. I think we
“Okay, well, here we go. Because to call your opponents vermin and to dehumanize them is to not only open the door but to walk through the door toward the most ghastly kinds of crimes,” Meacham said, adding, “and gives me no pleasure to start off a Monday morning talking about this.”
He then pivoted to making a “small plea to all of my Republican friends, and I live in Tennessee, so that’s redundant, right? I’ve got Republican friends for all of those folks.”
His plea? “Think again. Think anew about this. This is not about the age of the incumbent president. This is not about your opinion of the incumbent vice president of the United States. This is about your candidate’s frontrunner, your party’s frontrunner, who is, in fact, now, as clearly as you can do, is putting American democracy, human rights, the rule of law below his own ambition.”
Scarborough concluded by reading a New York Times column by Carlos Lozada that similarly condemned Trump&
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