{"id":1656470,"date":"2022-09-24T16:34:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T20:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1656470"},"modified":"2022-09-24T19:30:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T23:30:05","slug":"hillary-clinton-likens-trump-supporters-to-nazis-because-they-pointed-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clinton-likens-trump-supporters-to-nazis-because-they-pointed-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton Likens Trump Supporters To Nazis, Because They Pointed In The Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhillary-clinton-likens-trump-supporters-to-nazis-because-they-pointed-in-the-air%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1656470&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hillary-clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> likened Trump supporters to Nazis because they pointed in the air during a rally.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking at the Texas Tribune festival in Austin, Texas, on Friday, the former first lady, secretary of state, and failed 2016 presidential candidate recounted that when she was a student, she wondered why people in the 1930s and 40s were so enthralled with Adolf Hitler. Clinton implied that a similar phenomenon was going on with Trump supporters because, like at Hitler\u2019s rallies, people at Trump rallies raised their arms while he was speaking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember as a young student, you know, trying to figure out, how people get basically drawn in by Hitler,\u201d Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qI98TIm-r_I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cHow did that happen? I\u2019d watch newsreels and I\u2019d see this guy standing up there ranting and raving, and people shouting and raising their arms. I thought, \u2018What\u2019s happened to these people?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw the rally in Ohio the other night,\u201d Clinton continued. \u201cTrump is there ranting and raving for more than an hour, and you have these rows of young men with their arms raised. I thought, \u2018What is going on?\u2019 So there is a real pressure, and I think it is fair to say we\u2019re in a struggle between democracy and autocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hillary Clinton likens Trump supporters to Nazis during remarks at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s happened to these people?\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fWLON5d2b3\">https:\/\/t.co\/fWLON5d2b3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b8H6Cm4AKF\">pic.twitter.com\/b8H6Cm4AKF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LevineJonathan\/status\/1573680772850016256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hillary Clinton likens Trump supporters to Nazis during remarks at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What\u2019s happened to these people?&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fWLON5d2b3\">https:\/\/t.co\/fWLON5d2b3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b8H6Cm4AKF\">pic.twitter.com\/b8H6Cm4AKF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LevineJonathan\/status\/1573680772850016256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Clinton was referring to Trump\u2019s \u201cSave America\u201d Rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on September 17. Trump closed his remarks with a prepared monologue set to dramatic music. As Trump was speaking, supporters in the audience raised their arms and pointed upward with their index fingers. Some commentators claimed the move was associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory, but others said the crowd was simply showing the number one in reference to Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d message.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-441585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1243314596-300x187.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1243314596-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1243314596-924x576-1.jpg 924w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1243314596-924x576-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1243314596-924x576-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1243314596-924x576-1.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"YOUNGSTOWN, OH - SEPTEMBER 17: Audience members put their index finger up to symbolize America First while President Donald Trump speaks at a Save America Rally to support Republican candidates running for state and federal offices in the state of Ohio at the Covelli Centre on September 17, 2022 in Youngstown, Ohio.\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-441585\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-441585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Jeff Swensen\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Clinton was not the only left-wing figure to compare Trump supporters to Nazis after the rally. Washington Post columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/09\/19\/trump-ohio-rally-qanon-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Rubin<\/a> claimed that Trump supporters pointing in the air \u201cbore an uncanny resemblance to the infamous Nazi salute.\u201d Other left-wingers, including feminist author <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyceCarolOates\/status\/1571921766393462789?s=20&amp;t=rTMfiSLBJheyqP7P7A8kHA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Carol Oates<\/a>, Harvard professor emeritus <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tribelaw\/status\/1571503155204034561?s=20&amp;t=EsC-oen_6bwQvasIi0BNCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laurence Tribe<\/a>, retired Army General and MSNBC contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mccaffreyr3\/status\/1571323249870671874?s=20&amp;t=v3NKX2ThGlowrASVFIz54Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barry McCaffrey<\/a>, and the left-wing legal organization <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CREWcrew\/status\/1571475307990863872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citizens for Ethics<\/a> all compared the rally attendees to Nazi supporters on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs usual, the media is working hand in hand with the Democrats weeks before an election,\u201d Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich said in a statement to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/24\/hillary-clinton-likens-trump-supporters-to-nazis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>. \u201cIt seems like perpetual-failed-candidate Hillary Clinton\u2019s basket of deplorables has run stale, not unlike herself. It\u2019s pathetic, it\u2019s divisive, and it is further cementing her legacy of cringe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton infamously labeled Trump supporters \u201cdeplorables\u201d during the 2016 election. \u201cYou know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump\u2019s supporters into what I call the \u2018basket of deplorables,\u2019\u201d Clinton said at the time. \u201cThe racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic \u2014 you name it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton\u2019s rhetoric is also similar to President Joe Biden\u2019s recent line of attack against so-called \u201cMAGA Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a closed-door event with supporters in Rockville, Maryland, in August, Biden said that the ideology of Trump and his supporters borders on fascism. \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of extreme MAGA philosophy,\u201d Biden said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just Trump, it\u2019s the entire philosophy that underpins the \u2014 I\u2019m going to say something, it\u2019s like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/08\/25\/biden-trump-philosophy-semi-fascism-00053831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">semi-fascism<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton likened Trump supporters to Nazis because they pointed in the air during a rally. While speaking at the Texas Tribune festival in Austin, Texas, on Friday, the former first lady, secretary of state, and failed 2016 presidential candidate recounted that when she was a student, she wondered why people in the 1930s and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1625500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1625500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}