Presidential Historian: Trump Actually Doing 'Us All A Favor' With Fascist Rhetoric
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Michael Beschloss also spelled out in the gravest terms why the 2024 election will be like no other.
NBC News presidential historian and author Michael Beschloss on Monday shared a major bugbear he has about the 2024 election.
“I hate it when people treat this race as if it’s just one more presidential campaign,” Beschloss told MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski of the likely rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, who is now the presumptive GOP nominee.
“A major party candidate is saying, ‘You elect me, there’s going to be dictatorship, bloodbath, violence, retribution against my political enemies,’ that equals what we saw in Italy, in Germany and other places,” Beschloss warned.
He added, “If Americans do not get that, if they choose that voluntarily, then this country has changed in a way that I do not understand.”
Trump, suggested Beschloss, had actually “done us all a favor” with his violent rhetoric because he’d brought out into the open the possibility of how “fascism and dictatorship might come to America.”
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