Democratic 2020 contender Beto O’Rourke on Thursday stated that President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on the topic of immigration resembled that of Nazi Germany, Fox News informed.
Speaking to reporters in Iowa, the former congressman – in response to a question about how he would address attacks from Republicans – called out “the rhetoric of a president who not only describes immigrants as rapists and criminals but as animals and an infestation.”
“Seeking to ban all Muslims, all people of one religion, what other country on the face of the planet does that kind of thing? Or in our human history? Or in the history of the western world? Because they are somehow deficient or violent or a threat to us? Putting kids in cages, saying that Neonazis and Klansmen and white supremacists are ‘very fine people’? Now, I might expect someone to describe another human being as an infestation in the Third Reich,” he said. “I would not expect that in the United States of America.”
He also stated that if people do not call out racism – certainly at the highest levels of power, in this position of trust that the President enjoys – then we are going to continue to get its consequences.
“If we descend into that pettiness and meanness and those personal attacks, I’m not sure that we can win,” O’Rourke added.
O’Rourke, who launched his campaign in mid-March, said Americans need to call out what the Trump administration is doing to “define a better future for this country.”
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