Posted on 02/17/2017 3:05:59 PM PST by mandaladon
Arizona Sen. John McCain delivered a series of blows to President Donald Trump Friday during a speech in Germany, and at one point he compared today's political atmosphere to the Nazi years of the 1930s and 1940s.
"In the four decades I have attended this conference, I cannot recall a year where its purpose was more necessary or more important," said McCain, who never mentioned Trump by name during his speech at the Munich Security Conference but referenced his policies several times.
"This panel is going to ask us to consider whether the West will survive. In recent years, this question would invite accusations of hyperbole and alarmism. Not this year. If ever there was a time to treat this question with a deadly seriousness, it is now."
While making his case, McCain — who like Trump is a Republican — mentioned Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist. Von Kleist was part of the group that plotted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.
"What would von Kleist's generation say if they saw our world today?" McCain asked. "I fear that much about it would be all too familiar for them. And they would be alarmed by it."
McCain then tried to dismantle Trump's foreign policy (America First), his recent immigration order that critics called a Muslim ban, and some of the alleged untruths that have emerged from Trump's White House.
"They would be alarmed by an increasing turn away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism. They would be alarmed by the hardening resentment we see toward immigrants, and refugees, and minority groups, especially Muslims," McCain said.
"They would be alarmed by the growing inability, and even unwillingness, to separate truth from lies.
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McCian is leading the shadow government. He is operating as though he is POTUS. He is undermining the intended interests of the American voters.
I call this treason.
McNasty is sure helping the Republican Party get their team installed. /sarc
disgusting dishonorable old man
Traitor!
McCain, picking up where his messiah, Barack Hussein Obama, left off. Traveling the world ON OUR DIME to bash the United States. What a punk.
I don't recall one Democrat openly opposing BO during all 8 years. What a joke McStain is.
Logan Act violations by you McQueeg?
POS RINO loser!
“I refuse to accept that our values are morally equivalent to those of our adversaries,” he said. “I am a proud, unapologetic believer in the West, and I believe we must always, always stand up for it. For if we do not, who will?
***That criticism sounds more like it is directed at a certain ex-present***
Moreover, as a Freeper noted on another thread:”This is a big nothing burger. The title is meant to create friction and dissension but, there is no real indictment in this bland article”
McCain has been McShame for quite a few years already.
WHEN O WHEN will Arizonians REPLACE this embarrassment!!!!!?
Senate needs to censure McCain.
Piece a chit.
Why doesn’t he just switch parties and get it over with?
They need to put him in a home for dementia.
Hey Juan.
We just don’t wanna end up living in Mexico.
Since you weren’t born and raised in the State you supposedly represent - like I was - you wouldn’t understand.
Driving across the border at Nogales is the most jarring experience you can have. A starker difference between two peoples, two countries is almost impossible to find.
We don’t want to live under their rule. And in 1965, no one could have imagined it.
Now we see it every day.
So stop being the Xenophilic, Ameriphobic traitor you are and get with the program.
It’s for the chirren, you know man?
He went to Germany to criticize Trump?
What a moroon.
I am now convinced that McCain was indeed guilty in the Keating Five scandal. I believe that slimy bastards is up to his ears in globalist companies paying him off and stroking his ego, because nothing else makes any sense regarding his behavior.
Is McSenile in Europe to retrieve another dossier?
Who picked up the tab for this travel adventure?
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