Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Sunday warned a second Donald Trump presidency would “look so much like Vladimir Putin in Russia.”
“It could look so much like Viktor Orbán in Hungary, ‘intolerant democracy,’ that means democracy with out rights or liberties or respect for the due course of, the system, the rule of legislation,” the congressman advised MSNBC’s Jen Psaki.
“In actual fact, there’s not a lot democracy left to it as a result of their place is that they don’t settle for the integrity of any election the place they lose,” Raskin continued. “That’s the hallmark of an authoritarian social gathering.”
“They don’t settle for elections that don’t go their methods,” he mentioned. “They refuse to disavow political violence. They embrace political violence as an instrument for acquiring energy after which every little thing flows from the desire of a charismatic politician, and that’s Donald Trump of their ebook.”
Raskin warned “we’re clearly headed into a totally completely different type of authorities than any of us would acknowledge as steady with the previous. Proper-wing authoritarian authorities in league with (Russia’s) Putin, (China’s) Xi, (Hungary’s) Orbán, (Brazil’s) Bolsonaro, you title it.”
Psaki famous how Putin, Xi and Orbán are “some severe authoritarian dictators” and requested in the event that they may very well be checked out for instance of the place America may very well be headed.
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