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Soph0571

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Fri Jul 19, 2019, 07:49 AM Jul 2019

'We're talking about ethnic cleansing': MSNBC's Morning Joe demolishes Lindsey Graham's horrific....

...defense of Trump’s racism

The “Morning Joe” host said the parallels with Nazi Germany were obvious, and he sounded the alarm over Graham’s comment that Trump wouldn’t want to send Somali refugees like Rep. Ilhan Omar back to their home country if they were wearing “Make America Great Again” hats.

“We are now talking about an ethnic cleansing politically,” Scarborough said, “an ethnic cleansing, politically, of people who do not support our side.”
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Scarborough said the president’s attacks on immigrants violated American values and democratic norms, and he said it would only get worse unless Republicans helped push back.

“It did sound, if not Nuremberg, please help me out — tell me what other countries do this,” he said. “Whatever answer you give me today, it’s not going to be good. This stuff doesn’t happen in Canada, doesn’t happen, you know, in other democracies. It’s only happening here right now. We have got to call it what it is. It’s frightening, it’s undemocratic. It goes against all of our American traditions and it must be called out. It must be stopped.”


[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/were-talking-about-ethnic-cleansing-msnbcs-morning-joe-demolishes-lindsey-grahams-horrific-defense-of-trumps-racism/|

Heh. All of this, but of course Joe or many years supported a system that led to this point....
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'We're talking about ethnic cleansing': MSNBC's Morning Joe demolishes Lindsey Graham's horrific.... (Original Post) Soph0571 Jul 2019 OP
A lot of Republicans feel like he does. Let's embrace that. secondwind Jul 2019 #1
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