Hillary Clinton Makes An Urgent Plea To The Media About Trump Coverage
If anyone knows a thing or two about the threat of authoritarianism from Donald Trump, it’s Hillary Clinton. Gleeful chants of “lock her up” were almost as prevalent in the 2016 presidential campaign as the “make American great again” slogan. This campaign year, there seems to be an endless list of people Trump wants to lock up, deport and execute.
So, when MSNBC's Joe Scarborough told her about his concern the U.S. may be sleepwalking into something as awful as Nazi Germany, Clinton seemed equally worried.
“People can't stop covering the circus, every utterance, every insult, every outrageous action or comment - it gets covered,” Clinton said. But the context is often missing and she called that context “imperative.”
“The world has been here before,” Clinton said. She noted that “people did not take the kind of threats that we saw in the 1930s as seriously as they should, including American journalists,” she added. People said about Adolf Hitler, “oh, this can be controlled. He may have said some outrageous things but you know, the institutions will hold.” And, of course, that is not at all what happened.