Posted on 10/15/2022 5:59:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is concerned that there are still too many Trump supporters in the U.S. and exasperated that liberals will have to learn how to live them.
During a segment on Jen Psaki's new MSNBC show, Shadi Hamid, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told the host that 74 million people must learn how to live with all of the "bad people" who support the former president.
"I think we have to accept that people who we completely disagree with are sometimes going to win, so there's, what, 74 million Trump supporters, voters? We can't just wish them away," Hamid said.
Calling Trump supporters a threat and a challenge, Hamid suggested that if Trump were to be elected again, America's democracy would be at stake.
"They're not going to disappear. So then we have to find a way to live with them even if we think they're bad people, even if we think they're a threat to everything we hold dear, because what is the other option that's in front of us? That's the challenge because a lot of people will say, 'Well, they're deplorable and we can't find a way to live with them,'" Hamid told Psaki.
He continued to tell the roundtable that it is time to accept Republicans who support Trump, using the example of other countries that elect leaders who lean to the right.
"It's a universal thing, and we can talk about Europe has its cases where in Italy we might have the first far-right prime minister since Mussolini and that person will have come to power through elections, or the Sweden Democrats, the party with neo-Nazi origins," Hamid said, adding, "So, it's not just America, it's happening all over the place because we're not debating economic issues anymore, we're debating cultural issues, identity issues, issues around religion."
We all know how the left has acted in the past.
A debate? Debates are between people who have differing opinions. Here we have two liberal Democrat. No debate here.
Pushing the
” Final Solution”
How
National Socialist ( actual nazi)
of them.
They should worry more about how Trump supporters plan to deal with them.
Shadi Hamid: Not a “scholar,” a left wing moslem political hack
They’re not going to disappear. So then we have to find a way to...... because ....we can’t find a way to live with them,’” Hamid told Psaki.
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Yup
Final Solution.
Mussolini was far right? Who knew?
A debate? Debates are between people who have differing opinions. Here we have two liberal Democrat. No debate here.
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Standing ovation imho.
Bring it. Those “bad people” will be waiting.
And they are soooo much better than the left in every measurable way.
Them damn ‘deplorables’.... /s
.
Well, I guess that they'd better start a civil war - just to be 'Safe'.
Effing anti-freedom, unAmerican, communist morons.
Spit...
The debate is lost when you are unable to accept that your opponent has an opinion and willing to back it up when speaking to you.
If you have to figure what to do with those who disagree then you must be on the wrong track.
If people like your ideas they will join you.
It’s almost exclusively the left that forces “identity” issues on everyone. They also don’t talk about economics unless it is when they promise to “redistribute” and give away “free” stuff.
The REAL Nazis.
right back at ya bub
I have an idea. All those who hate Trump are free to leave the country. I’ll even contribute a dollar to it on my tax form. Wherever ballot boxes are set up, they can pick up their tickets. At this point I would rather have the illegals here than the liberals.
How white of Hamid.
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