Nelson compares 'tribal' U.S. politics to Rwanda before genocide

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/413840-nelson-compares-tribal-us-politics-to-rwanda-before-genocide

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) during a campaign event over the weekend compared the heated U.S. political climate to the escalating "tribal" politics that preceded the Rwandan genocide, according to CNN.

Nelson made the comment after a week that saw an ardent Trump supporter send over a dozen explosives to high-profile Democrats and CNN, as well as a mass shooting in Pittsburgh that was reportedly the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.

"When a place gets so tribal that the two tribes won't have anything to do with each other ... that jealousy turns into hate," Nelson said at an event in Florida City, Fla., according to CNN. "And we saw what happened to the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda, it turned into a genocide. A million-people hacked to death within a few months. And we have got to watch what's happening here."

He said the Rwandan genocide could be "instructive" to people in the U.S.