Former President Bill Clinton warned on a podcast Monday that he believes there is a “war” over “diversity” within American politics following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in November.
During Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, Mr. Clinton publicly supported her and joined Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign. important battlefield State in October. On the “Reading” podcast, co-host Alastair Campbell asked the former president what “went wrong” in American politics to return Trump to office, saying populism was “on the rise.” Ta.
“Well, I think a few things didn’t go right and we are to blame for not winning when I thought we should have, but my friends in the UK and all over Europe It’s important for you to remember that I was elected and then re-elected, “the only time in America I’ve lost the popular vote twice,” Clinton said.
“Once just before World War I, when George Bush had the narrowest re-election margin since Woodrow Wilson; and again recently, when he had to run for office with a huge number of issues. “When he lost the election by a margin of 1.5 million votes” or 1 million 6 votes. — “Hillary did not outnumber Donald Trump in 2016,” Clinton added. “It’s not great, but it’s not the end of the world. But there’s a war going on in America right now that’s trying to dismantle what is essentially an all-encompassing tribalist politics.”
Clinton went on to say that she believes there is an attempt to push identity politics as a “zero-sum game.” He said the problem was both “identity” and “economic”. (Related: Bill Clinton hopes Biden won’t ‘preemptively pardon’ wife or other Trump opponents)
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“This is a politics that treats diversity as an asset, and no one can abolish it. But the idea is to make people close to the edge feel that identity is a zero-sum game, not a positive-sum game. “I think a lot of that is due to extreme income inequality, as we saw in America starting with the financial crisis and seeing things get very tough in 2008,” Clinton continued. .
“As we’ve seen in the UK, the left has moved to the left, basically claiming that government can solve everything, and a lot of that has to do with culture, how we treat each other, how we come together. It’s about how you live, what you hold on to and what you give up.’ And it’s very complicated,” Clinton said. “But most of the time it’s about the feeling that life is constantly being turned upside down, and many people are trying to at least maintain what they have without abandoning the social conventions and arrangements they believe in. We want to hang on and do better. So people ask me, is this an identity issue or an economic issue? And the answer is both.”
During her campaign, Clinton made a number of bizarre statements that received mixed reactions, including admitting in October that she found former Republican Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake “physically attractive.” .
Democrats were puzzled about how the former president was able to attract voters, especially key Democratic voting blocs, after Trump’s victory in both the electoral college and the popular vote. But some political commentators had warned about the rhetoric of Harris and her team, especially after Harris called President Trump a fascist and compared him to former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
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