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Trump quotes Putin condemning American democracy, praises autocrat Orban
Why would any true American patriot support this man who wants to do away with our democracy? Why? He's feels no need to be coy about it. He's getting positive feedback from his deluded followers so he feels fine telling them that he will be an authoritarian like Putin, Orban and others of their ilk.
Trump also called Jan. 6 defendants ‘hostages’ and again demonized immigrants as ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ Echoes of fascists from the recent past.
DURHAM, N.H. — Republican polling leader Donald Trump approvingly quoted autocrats Vladimir Putin of Russia and Viktor Orban of Hungary, part of an ongoing effort to deflect from his criminal prosecutions and spin alarms about eroding democracy against President Biden.
His speech at a presidential campaign rally here on Saturday also reprised dehumanizing language targeting immigrants that historians have likened to past authoritarians, including a reference that some civil rights advocates and experts in extremism have compared to Adolf Hitler’s fixation on blood purity.
And he used the term “hostages” to describe people charged with violent crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol.
