She clinked the champagne glasses with North Korean leaders in celebration her and Bill Clinton's deal where the US paid North Korea zillions for its promise to stop developing nuclear weapons.
Posted on 04/05/2018 4:57:52 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright threw jabs at President Donald Trump, calling him the "most anti-democratic leader" in America’s history, during an interview published by NPR on Tuesday.
Albright, who served as secretary of state from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton, sat down with NPR to promote her upcoming book, Fascism: A Warning. In the interview, Albright opined about how she believes the United States has receded from the world since Trump took office.
"We're not fulfilling the role that we're supposed to,"Albright said. "I see it as the most unbelievable step backwards, because I do believe that the United States is stronger when we have friends and allies to deal with the various issues."
Albright’s book discusses the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy during the early 20th century before segueing into an examination of today’s authoritarian regimes in Eastern Europe, North Korea, Africa, Turkey, and Russia. During the interview, the former secretary of state stated she wanted the book to serve as a warning for countries with long traditions of freedom and democracy.
"Part of the reason for writing [the book] is to say that, in fact, this can happen in countries that have democratic systems," she said. "That's what's so worrisome, is that fascism can come in a way that it is one step at a time, and in many ways, goes unnoticed until it's too late."
Even though the book is written mainly as an observation about political ideologies abroad, America and Trump were not far from Albright’s mind.
During the interview, Albright called Trump "the most anti-democratic leader that I have studied in American history."
Albright pointed to the president’s efforts to "undermine the press" and his "disdain for the judiciary … the electoral process and minorities" as proof he has "anti-democratic" tendencies.
"What he's trying to do is undermine the press and [he] has disdain for the judiciary, and the electoral process and minorities, and I think that his instincts are not ones that are democratic," Albright said.
Albright said the president was focused on the issues that serve to divide rather than unite the country. The former secretary of state wants her new book to serve as a public rebuke of Trump.
"He is interested … in exacerbating those divisions … I've picked up that phrase ‘see something, say something,’ and I am seeing some things that are the kinds of things that we have seen in other countries," Albright said. "So I am saying not only should we say something, but we have to do something about it."
Toward the end of the interview, Albright did admit that she found American democracy to be "resilient"; however, she expressed concern the majority of citizens are taking democracy and its resiliency for granted.
"I believe very much that democracy in the United States is resilient [and] that people can be skeptical about things that are going on, but I really am afraid that we are taking things for granted."
Washerwoman......
She is not all that bright.
The usual suspects screaming like monkeys.
Any questions regarding Korea?
Go ahead...post the champagne pic. This is too easy.
Geez, those on the left say the most ridiculous things. Of course, half of the US believe them.
One can hope. 😄
To a Leftist, “Democracy” is a code word for “socialism”. In that sense, she is correct, that Trump is anti-socialism. This is why the Left hates him so much, because he may roll back some of their “progress”.
She clinked the champagne glasses with North Korean leaders in celebration her and Bill Clinton's deal where the US paid North Korea zillions for its promise to stop developing nuclear weapons.
The Grim Reaper awaits Maddie.
Yes, please tell us about democracy and fascism...
“A wealthy Austrian family has demanded that U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her family return millions of dollars worth of “war booty” allegedly taken from their apartment in Prague after World War II.”
And she breaks mirrors everywhere she goes.
Madeleine Albright....now there’s a real deep thinker.... :)
Madeline Halfbright should just crawl back under the rock that she slithered out from.
Idiot who helped North Korea get nukes, all the while applauding herself as a great diplomat.
She’s bright enough to lie about her family background.
After World War II, her family stole millions of dollars of furniture, paintings and art works that had been stolen from the Jews during the war. She lies about that. She also claims she never knew she was Jewish until after she became Secretary of State.
I guess she snored right through all of Obama’s criminal overreach, and the 8-year-long nightmare his ‘creatures’ put us through.
Go back to sleep, Maddie!!
Madeline Halfbright should just crawl back under the rock that she slithered out from.
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