Appearing on ABC’s The View today, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic nominee for President Hillary Clinton gave a pretty spot-on response if likely Republican nominee Donald Trump wins the 2024 Presidential election over incumbent President Joe Biden (D): “It would be the end of our country as we know it.” Clinton also directly compared Trump to the infamous Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler, meaning that they were elected into office and then turned dictatorial once elected.
On Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” Hillary Clinton made it clear that she’s not looking forward to Donald Trump’s comeback if the former president were to be re-elected in the upcoming 2024 election.
“I can’t even think of that because I think it would be the end of our country as we know it,” Clinton said after co-host Sunny Hostin asked her to envision the possibility of another Trump presidency.
Hillary Clinton brought a premonition of the United States' decimation when she visited The View for a summit on current events.
The former Secretary of State stopped by the show Wednesday for a multi-segment interview, during which cohost Sunny Hostin told Clinton that her 2016 election loss to Donald Trump would go down as "one of the most pivotal moments" in U.S. history, and asked the politician to comment on Trump's potential re-election in 2024 despite multiple indictments against him.
"I can't even think that, because I think it would be the end of our country as we know it, and I don't say that lightly. I hated losing, and I especially hated losing to him because I'd seen so many warning signals during the campaign," Clinton replied, adding that she tried to support Trump as the leader of the country. "Literally, from his inauguration on, it was nothing but accusing people of things, making up facts, denying the size of the crowd at his own inauguration. Everything I worried about, I saw unfolding."
She said the warning signs are "even worse now" and speculated that he was "restrained" by those around him during his first term from 2016 through 2020 because "they stood up to him."
William Vaillancourt at The Daily Beast:
“And you could see it in countries where—well, Hitler was duly elected—and so all of a sudden, somebody with those…dictatorial authoritarian tendencies would be like, ‘Oh, okay, we’re going to shut this down. We’re going to throw these people in jail.’ And they didn’t usually telegraph that. Trump is telling us what he intends to do.” Trump’s advisers, for instance, are working up plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on Inauguration Day, according to The Washington Post.
Once again, Hillary Clinton was right about everything. If Trump does get elected again, it would truly be the end of the United States as we know it.
Constitution? Gone. Democracy? Gone. Freedom? Gone. That is what’ll happen if we let Trump get elected again.
This is high time to help elect Democrats up and down the ballot, from President Biden downwards to your Congressperson to your state legislator to even dogcatcher.