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Madeleine Albright on fascism and the "most undemocratic president" in U.S. history
CBS "News" ^ | April 10, 2018

Posted on 04/10/2018 12:51:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is warning of a looming worldwide political threat. In her new book, "Fascism: A Warning," she argues contemporary world leaders are turning to the same tactics used by fascists like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini nearly a century ago. "We should be awake to the assault on democratic values that has gathered strength in many countries abroad and that is dividing America at home," she writes.

Albright pointed to politics in countries like Hungary, Turkey, the Philippines, Poland and Venezuela.

She also addresses President Trump in her book, writing: "If we think of fascism as a wound from the past that had almost healed, putting Trump in the White House was like ripping off the bandage and picking at the scab."

"I think Trump is the most undemocratic president I have ever seen in American history. And so that's what worries me. But I do think that we all need to pay attention, which is why I'm – this is a warning. That's what the book is about," Albright said. But she made it clear that she was not calling Mr. Trump a fascist.

Among them, she said: attacking the press, "which is central to having a democracy"; acting "as though he's above the law"; not respecting the rights of others; and providing "a lot of simplistic answers to questions."

As for Mr. Trump's response to the FBI raiding the offices of his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and calling it an "attack on our country," Albright said: "I find that ridiculous."

"We can't have a leader that feels that he is above the law. The law and the rule of law is the most essential part of a democratic system," she said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: albright; albrightstonebridge; asg; cleaninglady; deepstate; fascism; hack; journalism; progressives; sandyberger; stonebridgegroup; wendysherman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Albright:

Jaba the Hut’s understudy...


41 posted on 04/10/2018 1:16:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"I think Trump is the most undemocratic president I have ever seen in American history."

Of course Donald Trump is undemocratic - HE IS A REPUBLICAN.

42 posted on 04/10/2018 1:16:47 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: metesky
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43 posted on 04/10/2018 1:18:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
""I think Trump is the most undemocratic president I have ever seen in American history. And so that's what worries me. But I do think that we all need to pay attention, which is why I'm – this is a warning. That's what the book is about," Albright said."

The clinonista's are on high spin to ward off any and all future appropriate incarcerations.
44 posted on 04/10/2018 1:21:07 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: butlerweave
Sounds like the MSM is starting another Bombing Run on Trump

Good for Trump!
I can't imagine a better example of senile inconsistency, ignorance and decaying intellect!

45 posted on 04/10/2018 1:29:08 PM PDT by publius911 (Declaration: MSM, I am so over watching or listening to bald perverts, thugs and sluts)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She better be careful because when the Communists finally take over her and her kind will be the first ones put up against a wall.


46 posted on 04/10/2018 1:30:14 PM PDT by MCRD
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She does not believe this, but she believes that the democratic voting-block this nonsense is directed at, believes it. That’s the game that’s being played.


47 posted on 04/10/2018 1:30:54 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Once again for emphasis

The USA is a Constitutional Republic
It is NOT a Democracy


48 posted on 04/10/2018 1:32:43 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why bother? ‘The most undemocratic president in US history’ - not that anybody’s studied US history, mind you - was voted out of office in 2016 and has slunk away. You can find him cowering in a Safe Room somewhere.


49 posted on 04/10/2018 1:37:50 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why decry Obama’s phone and pen politics now byotch?!!!


50 posted on 04/10/2018 1:38:11 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Undemocratic” “threat to democracy” threat to ‘democratic’ values”

These are all 100% part of the Left’s line of march, that the hard Left and their Liberal/Progressive(fascist) idiot fellow travelers mouth, without identifying what exactly Trump is “undemocratic” about.

They throw the terms out as if there are self-evident “truth” requiring no factual explanation, merely “true” because they say so. And as they do, millions of sheeple across the U.S. just bow their heads in indoctrinated agreement. They don’t need any facts or explanation; it must be true just because Madeleine Halfbrite says so.


51 posted on 04/10/2018 1:40:10 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Vaquero

I thought madam not-so-bright was already dead! Now she raises her ugly head from under the rock.


52 posted on 04/10/2018 1:42:32 PM PDT by entropy12 (30 Million low wealth, low skill LEGAL chain migrants in 25 years is growing EXPONENTIALLY..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“most undemocratic president” in US history.
That would be Obuttmunch.


53 posted on 04/10/2018 1:44:02 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Our Maxine Waters!


54 posted on 04/10/2018 1:48:52 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
OneWorldOrder Albright is equating pride in one’s country and insistence on its sovereignty and identity, as ‘undemocratic’. Except we're a Republic, not a democracy, and a darn fine one at that in spite of creatures from the deep like Albright.
55 posted on 04/10/2018 1:52:01 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: piasa

Berger was not the only Albright Stonebridge executive with whom Hillary Clinton had regular contact. Wendy Sherman served as vice chair of Albright Stonebridge before Clinton tapped her to join the State Department in 2011.
Sherman has been deeply involved in the Iran negotiations, and her name surfaced in several Benghazi-related emails the State Department released in May. -—
Clinton adviser on Israel [Sandy Berger] had commercial ties to Middle East
Washington Examiner ^ | August 8, 2016 | Sarah Westwood http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-adviser-on-israel-had-commercial-ties-to-middle-east/article/2569883


56 posted on 04/10/2018 1:53:21 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Interesting how Dems are bringing out Albright and Lynch .......those who have nothing to loose.


57 posted on 04/10/2018 2:00:23 PM PDT by caww
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Madeleine Albright strikes me as Walter “49 State Loss” Mondale in drag.


58 posted on 04/10/2018 2:06:58 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: a fool in paradise

“ripping off the bandage and picking at the scab.” ...........

Speaking of “scabs”, Albright definitely is one, no she is the cancer. Look what she has done to Germany with her liberal, open border laws inviting the muzzies in. She has NO ROOM to call out anyone else, she has all but destroyed a once saved Germany from people like Hitler.


59 posted on 04/10/2018 2:07:31 PM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

.....”I think Trump is the most undemocratic president I have ever seen in American history.....

Woodrow Wilson? Barack Hussein obama? Abraham Lincoln? Andrew Jackson? And even clinton, the Bomber of Belgrade!!!!

Shut up, Madame Halfbright!!!! PHOOEY to you!!!!


60 posted on 04/10/2018 2:09:38 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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