Former Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton said that President Donald Trump’s “authoritarian tendencies” must be rejected at the upcoming November midterm election, otherwise, an “unchecked” president could do lasting damage to the government.
Clinton, who was speaking on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” commented on those tendencies saying the “authoritarian tendencies that we have seen at work in this administration with this president, left unchecked, could very well result in the erosion of our institutions to an extent that we’ve never imagined possible here.”
She added that if Donald Trump was left without congressional check “these attacks on our institutions, on our norms, on the rule of law” will only increase in number and do lasting damage. That is why, Clinton added, the November midterms are even more important.
Trump has managed to have many of his legislative priorities passed thanks to the fact that the GOP currently controls both chambers of Congress. But recent polls have indicated that Democrats could make gains and retake majority in the House and the Senate.
After losing the election in 2016, Clinton stayed mostly quiet on political development. But this year, she has launched herself into 2018 campaigning, and has donated a significant amount of money to a number of Democratic candidates and headlined three Democratic National Committee fundraisers in August.
Clinton also said that it is important that Democrats act as a legislative check on Trump during the next two years of his term.
“We’re not there yet, but that’s because we have an election, and it’s an election that could not be more critical to ending any continuing threat from authoritarian tendencies,” she pointed out.
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