Hillary Clinton has warned that American democracy is in crisis and the country is headed towards authoritarianism in a clear swipe at the US President Donald Trump.
In a speech at Harvard University on Friday, Clinton said: “Right now we are living through a crisis in our democracy…there are certainly not tanks in the street, but what is happening today goes to the heart of who we are as a nation. And I say this not as a Democrat who lost an election, but an American afraid of losing a country.”
Press TV reports: Clinton did not mention President Trump by name, but it was clear to whom she was referring when she said there are “leaders in our country who blatantly incite people with hateful rhetoric, who stoke fear of change, who see the world in zero-sum terms.”
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“Attempting to erase the line between fact and fiction, truth and an alternative reality, is a core feature of authoritarianism,” Clinton warned.
Speaking last week at Yale University, Clinton made a similar warning, saying the United States was going through a “full-fledged crisis in our democracy.”
Clinton also told graduating Yale students that she still regrets losing the 2016 presidential election race against Trump.
The anti-secrecy website dealt heavy blows to Hillary’s election campaign by leaking hacked emails about the inner works of the Democratic Party.
Clinton’s warning about Trump’s threat to American democracy was echoed earlier this month by another top US diplomat, former secretary of state Rex Tillerson.
Tillerson, who was fired by Trump in March after little more than a year on the job, said that a crisis involving truthfulness and integrity is threatening US democracy.
“If we do not as Americans confront the crisis of ethics and integrity in our society and among our leaders in both the public and private sector — and regrettably at times even the nonprofit sector — then American democracy as we know it is entering its twilight years,” Tillerson said during his address to graduates at the military college in Lexington, Virginia.
Niamh Harris
authoritarianism can be covert or overt Frankly the overt is at least more honest.Less hypocritical.Whether it is a good thing or not depends on its intentions and who it servers Its priorities and duty of care to its citizens Is it for the majority or an elite minorities profit or power or not.Ultimately that usually depends on how open and honest it is,or can attempt to be anyway, with its citizens .
CLINTON should just shut her stupid trap – pretty soon she will move to her new residence Gitmo
Obviously, she was wrong…. however, under the biden administration, she’s got a good argument.