Rachel Maddow Asks One Of The Biggest Election Deniers In History How To Restore Faith In Elections
Jake Smith on August 15, 2023
Failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that former president Donald Trump’s lack of faith in the 2020 presidential election results were the hallmarks of an “authoritarian, dictatorial” leader during an interview with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC Monday night.
Clinton told Maddow that Trump’s doubt in the 2020 presidential election results were a “deliberate effort to divide Americans,” and noted that fixing the public’s faith would require a “commitment to carry on elections, so that people would be enabled to vote and not obstructed.” Clinton has previously questioned the results of the 2016 presidential election and has called Trump an “illegitimate president,” according to The Washington Post.
“Democracy needs the trust of the people,” Maddow said. “If bad actors tell us falsely that every election is stolen and that the only way an election is trustworthy is that if they come out on top of it, it tells you something not just about that person, but it wounds us as a democracy in a way that’s hard to repair.”
“I think the truth matters,” Clinton responded. “The article you mentioned that I published about the weaponization of loneliness, really does – in my view – point to the larger cultural concerns. Because the lack of trust, the divisiveness, the undermining of faith in ourselves, in each other, respect for our institutions, rule of law – all of that has been deliberatelyinculcated within our body politic. There were trends before. We have seen how people become more isolated, less community-oriented, less civically minded, then we see how social media and technology has accelerated a lot of the trends.”
“But the deliberate to divide Americans, to lie to Americans about what was going on in front of their own eyes. What happened on January 6, ‘Don’t believe what you saw, believe what I tell you.’ Those are all the hallmarks of an authoritarian, dictatorial kinds of leaders,” Clinton said.
“So this attack on the elections was the most important step in a long line of efforts undertaken to undermine our trust and our belief in a functioning democracy, our commitment to one person, one vote. Our commitment to carry on elections, so that people would be enabled to vote and not obstructed,” Clinton said. “Everything that we have worked on to try to make this a more perfect union has been in the target of the anti-democratic forces, unfortunately led by a demagogue for four years in the White House.”
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