Trump ratcheted up his already inflammatory rhetoric on immigrants at a rally Saturday.

The Biden campaign fiercely denounced Donald Trump following his caustic remarks aimed at immigrants Saturday, saying the former president “parroted Hitler.”

“Tonight Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” Biden-Harris 2024 spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement.

Trump on Saturday ratcheted up his already inflammatory rhetoric on immigrants at a rally in New Hampshire. “They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” the former president said. “They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world they’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia.”

    • GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world
      125·
      7 months ago

      There’s a difference. It wasn’t a Tucker question, in my opinion. They were asking for a time reference, because, while bad either way, knowing chronological context makes a huge difference in understanding the whole.

      Knowing and understanding are equally important

        • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
          133·
          7 months ago

          Uh… Yes?

          Do you really believe you can defeat and enemy you do not understand?

          What kinda new age nativity is this???

            • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.idEnglish
              42·
              7 months ago

              Bullshit. Walling off parts of history and the beliefs that informed them as some kind of forbidden knowledge is never going to end well. Bad ideas die in the light of clear-sighted intellectual scrutiny, not in the darkness of an imposed blackout.

              It’s OK to admit that you are mistaken. There’s no shame in it and in fact, to the contrary, it will redound to your credit.

                • GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  7 months ago

                  You are thinking way too far into this… it wasn’t even a gotcha question. Like if he was asking something like “Do we have any proof that X happened?” I’d be on your side… but a question about understanding the mindset of a fascist authoritarian is extremely useful information. Especially right now.

                  And yeah, Lemmy is none of those things, but it shouldn’t have to be. It’s literally a place for discussion.

                  You might know something is bad, but the more you can articulate why, the better chance you have to change someone’s mind. Shutting down discussions about bad things just makes you come off as a frightened, tribalistic child.

                  Talking about Nazism does not equal platforming Nazis.

        • Guntrigger@feddit.ch
          93·
          7 months ago

          Well kinda yeah. If you know where the hatred comes from you have a better chance to turn it around.