Posted on 04/21/2019 12:54:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Massachusetts governor William F. Weld, who is challenging President Trump as a Republican candidate in 2020, blasted the president for his attacks on democratic institutions and for stoking nationalist rhetoric as Trump seeks money for a wall along the Mexican border.
“It’s part of his strategy to try to get everybody upset, and divide the country and persuade us that we shouldn’t be patriots who love our own country and our own people,” Weld said.
Instead, “we should be nationalists who hate everybody else,” Weld said.
Weld made the remarks during an appearance on WCVB-TV’s “On The Record” with hosts Janet Wu and Maria Stephanos, which aired Sunday morning.
Trump wants to make the US a “more autocratic” nation without the need of the First Amendment or a free press, while supporting despots and attacking other democracies, Weld said.
“He’s doing what you’d expect [Russian President] Vladimir Putin to do, and I think he sees himself — everyone knows that he’s a narcissist — I think he sees himself as the man on horseback,” Weld said. “And he really doesn’t want to have primaries, and he really doesn’t want to have an election.”
But Weld, who served as governor from 1991 to 1997 and ran as a Libertarian presidential candidate in 2016, faces tall odds against Trump in a Republican primary election.
The president enjoys soaring poll numbers among Republicans -- according to one Gallup poll from earlier this month, 89 percent of Republicans approved of the job Trump is doing as president.
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Well, I hate Weld, so he’s not completely wrong.
Invaders are not ‘our own people’. In fact define ‘our own people’.
There...fixed it.
We have the evil party and the stupid party, this clown belongs to both, but only claims one to suit his ever-changing needs.
So many progressives, so little time to belittle their puny minds.
Agree with your post, Weld is projecting what he stands for on Trump. Very much like a democrat.
I’m embarrassed. When will “Republicans” realize that Democrats play dirty; they lie and cheat. We need a fighter, not a “Republican.”
Am I the only one who remembers when he tried to run for governor of New York state and said he loved graffiti and wanted to bring it back?
Weld projects the socialist democrats doings and desires.
It seems as if the doors of all the nut houses have sprung open simultaneously.
No. Tens of millions of parasitic illegals have turned us into nationalists.
Weld is a drunk.
And a toady of the totalitarian globalists.
“Most hate comes from the left.”
A weakness of the right.
If more people voted for their own self interests, they might be surprised to see how many others share the same interests.
-PJ
Weld doesn’t sound like a Republican I’d ever vote for. For instance, what’s his plan for the problem on our southern border? Pretend there’s not a problem?
I like most other people. I just don’t want to be ruled by them or pay to support them either domestically or internationally.
I’m a hater.
Thats never been proven. ;-)
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