O'Malley to Trump: "When you start your registry, you can start with me"

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@MartinOMalley tells Trump: "When you start your registry of Americans who oppose your backward ideas, you can start with me." #JJdinner

Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley said Sunday night that Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is making "the sort of appeal that historically has often preceded fascism."

"Trump says we should be monitoring everyone of the Muslim faith, keeping some kind of registry, maybe even issuing special ID cards," the former Maryland governor said during his remarks at the New Hampshire Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner. He continued with an unmistakeable Nazi comparison.

"Let me ask you this. Who is next? Catholics? Trade unionists? Artists? We've seen this road before, and it does not lead to a good place," he said.

"Panic and political opportunism are a toxic mix -- a mix that can often precede fascism or the plunging of our republic into a security state," O’Malley added. The audience jeered and booed at his references to Trump.

After the speech, reporters pressed O’Malley on whether he thought Trump himself was a fascist. O’Malley would not say so explicitly, but said the language Trump uses is similar.

"When he pushes things like registries and ID cards based on things like religion, I do believe that is the sort of appeal that historically has often preceded fascism," he said. "We should not think that we are so superior as a nation that we cannot ourselves fall victim to those sorts of appeals."

He added that "we all" should call Trump out on his remarks.


read: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/martin-omalley-compares-donald-trumps-language-fascism/story?id=35481072


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[msrizzo]

1. I got next!

Nicely done O'Malley!

[The Polack MSgt]

2. This should be the response

From every person seeking any office in this country...

Well done Mr. O'Malley

[elleng]

3. 'Panic and political opportunism are a toxic mix.'

'The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.'

Herrmann Goring
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring

[bigtree]

4. from the GOP handbook

[elleng]

5. Exactly, bigtree,

and it WORKS!

[hedgehog]

6. K&R

[lostnfound]

7. Great statement. Kudos. Nt

[yellowcanine]

8. Yep. I am signing up now for Trump's Registry as a Muslim for the duration of his run.

If everyone did it it would send a bold message to Trump and bigots everywhere.