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Showing Original Post only (View all)Carl Bernstein Warns: We're In A Civil War [View all]
Of course, Brianna Keilar responded by changing the subject to what Dems should do. The News Media Never asks what the Republicans do.Carl Bernstein is not mincing words.
"Democracy is in peril because the Republican party has become the party of Trumpism, and the party of disenfranchisement," he told CNN's Brianna Keilar.
"What we have seen in Idaho, what we have also seen in Arizona, in these supposed recounts ordered because of supposed voter fraud, is it doesn't exist. It is part of the big lie. The big lie is not just about the lie that Donald Trump did not lose the election, a few months ago, but rather it looks toward 2024, and the idea that we are going to have another, quote, 'rigged election.'
"They're setting this up so that there can be no legitimacy in our electoral process. And the Republican party has been taken over by this movement, that is the most radical political movement of our lifetime, that has come to power in any form in Washington, in our state legislatures, but I think what we really need to acknowledge here is that we are in a civil war in this country.
"We are in a cultural civil war such as we have never seen since 1860 to 1865, and that the radicalism of the Republican party today is almost comparable to a secessionist movement in this country because of what the Republican party now advocates in a kind of Trumpism, doesn't need Donald Trump anymore, he's fanned the flames, he's ignited them and the movement and we need in journalism, in particularly in the media, to start looking at what's going on in the country outside of Washington."
"Republicans are not fixing their internal problem, right? They're leaning into it. So what should Democrats be doing that they're not doing?" Keilar asked.
"First of all, let's look at the Republicans," Bernstein replied, putting the attention where it belong
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Repubs are in full on takeover mode, but Dems are in 'disarray' and what should they do?
Wounded Bear
Oct 2021
#2
Yes, what should Democrats do? Fight hard, even use some of the republican strategies, inundate the
Escurumbele
Oct 2021
#34
Most of the U.S. MSM is aiding and abetting the Fascists so they're all part of
abqtommy
Oct 2021
#52
Still won't call it fascism. It is not Trumpism, like it is some ideological riff that the Pig...
Thomas Hurt
Oct 2021
#3
Fascism isn't only the merger of corporate and state interests; the GOP already accomplished that.
sop
Oct 2021
#13
The Chavista movement is called as such because Hugo Chavez, I guess it should be with a "z"
Escurumbele
Oct 2021
#54
Yup. "Respectable" conservatives have been working the "illegitimate election" fields since 1960
JHB
Oct 2021
#14
Yes. We have become desensitized to the constant battle waged against us and the country.
Irish_Dem
Oct 2021
#17
And when the Republicans were in power it was still, what should the Democrats do?
Walleye
Oct 2021
#10
Yep. Whatever it takes. We beat the incumbent against all odds we can also retain the House
Walleye
Oct 2021
#19
The other side wants us to treat this like normal political games.in fact our lives are all at stake
Walleye
Oct 2021
#21
I certainly would like to see some more urgency in our approach. I don't know what, though
Walleye
Oct 2021
#23
A lot of the hosts & pundits who decried Trump, will help re-elect him. Remember,
CrispyQ
Oct 2021
#15
The Republican Party was not "taken over"; it actively courted this shift over decades.
NullTuples
Oct 2021
#30
"Brianna Keilar responded by changing"...Because Brianna knows the republicans will not do anything
Escurumbele
Oct 2021
#33
I wonder why so few of these, respected pundits, fail to mention the kochnetwork behind the division
ShazamIam
Oct 2021
#36
We need a couple dozen Lincoln Project type groups fighting back. It's time for Dems to ignore the
Pepsidog
Oct 2021
#37
We need a couple dozen Lincoln Project type groups fighting back. It's time for Dems to ignore the
Pepsidog
Oct 2021
#42
A few red/dead/suicidal/covid/maskhole states need to secede for the U.S. to ever get better
traitorsgalore
Oct 2021
#51
He's in his 70s, had a cocaine addiction and never lived a healthy day in his life
RFCalifornia
Oct 2021
#64
Just read his book "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy"
RFCalifornia
Oct 2021
#68