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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Give the drunk another free drink.
And the Demonrats’ strategy is to turn America into Latin America
You’re wrong. Buttigiegity describes his male paramour as his “husband,” making Buttigiegity the catcher.
:-)
Too late. It is not Trump but the left who is swaying people to support Trump policies, Nationalism, and America first. They have been actively creating new Trump supporters since before the election.
Massachusetts Gov. William Weld takes an unannounced dive into the Charles River Wednesday, Aug. 7, 1996.
He dove from from the dock at the Charles River Canoe and Kayak Center in Boston, just moments after
he signed the Rivers Protection Bill.
Weld is followed into the river by state Sen. Robert Durand, D-Marlborough. (patriotledger.com report)
Weld will be a footnote of a footnote in the history books.
I don’t hate everybody. I do hate libtards, leftards, communists, socialists, democrats, and RINO’s. Let’s see, did I leave anyone off my hate list?
Trump is not the enemy. Trump is a wealth creator and wants America to be a wealth creator and wealth protector. Leftards are wealth destroyers or wealth stealers. They are the enemy.
No, Bill. We just hate you.
That idiot may be right. I hate EVERYBODY who is a lib, a Dem and a “progressive”.
Puh-leeeze! What could possibly be more dripping with hatred than DU (or any left-wing website), CNN, MSNBC, NPR, NYT, ChTrib, LAT, any Gannett paper...
Projection!
“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,”
Nope, that’s what CNN and MSNBC et al do. Projection again.
[[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. ]]
I see he’s describing the Democrat party and/or the Obama presidency.
What a dipsh*t. Surely he doesn’t think that appealing to America’s lack of patriotism is going to make Reps want to elect him. Or maybe he does. Let me reiterate: what a dipsh*t.
Does this mean we have to tolerate Democrats? I’d rather not, thanks. Talking to one gives me a headache...
to this thing
YOU ARE EITHER ON THE SIDE OF AMERICA OR YOU ARENT
AND YOU HAVE DECLARED YOU ARENT
(now fade back into whatever den of uselessness you came from).
OMG!! Hilarious.
This jackass is talking about Obama.
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