Former Biden 2020 campaign ad writer Cliff Schechter told ex-CNN host Jim Acosta on Tuesday that Democrats’ issue is they do not refer to President Donald Trump as a “fascist” as often as they should.
Schechter said on “The Jim Acosta Show” that he was among those urging Biden to use the term to describe Trump in 2020 and was pleased when the former president eventually used a similar term. He criticized Democrats for being “so reticent” in comparison to Republicans.
“The problem with Democrats — so back in 2020, look, right, I wrote a bunch of ads. I think I was one of the folks — certainly not just me — who kept pushing the other F-word: fascist,” Schechter told Acosta. “Like, we wanted Joe Biden to say it so bad. And finally, he referred to Trump as a semi-fascist. I’m like, I’ll take it, right? We got it out there.”
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“Because we’re so reticent to say — I mean, they’re making up lies about abortion after birth,” he added before Acosta cut him off.
Trump claimed during his September debate against former Vice President Kamala Harris that some Democratic states allow infants born after failed abortions to be killed, pointing to Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s home state specifically. Walz signed an omnibus bill in 2023 that enabled doctors to refuse life-saving care to infants born following failed abortions.
“There are real world results. People forget a man walked into a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood muttering about baby parts after [Republican Texas Sen.] Ted Cruz and the Republican debate, and they’d been talking about that,” Schechter added. “I mean, stochastic terrorism — I don’t want to do that. But you can’t let them accuse you of these kinds of things and not hit back hard.”
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“There should be constant creative responses. And then we even have the individuals — [Democratic Texas Rep.] Jasmine Crockett. I mean, these people that have shown they’re so good at this. Unshackle them,” he said. “Let them go and stop saying, ‘You must stick to this. We have to be cautious. It’s poll-tested.’ As you said, people — I hate to say it, but I think it was [former President] George W. who might have said, ‘People like strong and wrong.’ What about being strong and right?”
It was former President Bill Clinton who said people prefer “someone who is strong and wrong” when they “are feeling insecure.”
Crockett asserted Saturday that she felt alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia was “less criminal” than Trump. On top of allegedly being a member of the gang, Abrego Garcia’s wife has also alleged that her husband physically abused her.
Schechter clarified that although he thinks it is important to inspire “passion” and “anger,” he does not want it to reach the point of “violence.”
Harris also said during an October CNN town hall that she believed Trump was a fascist.
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Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson warned during a Thursday podcast that there is a heightening risk of political violence — like the two failed assassination attempts against Trump — as Democrats become increasingly desperate, citing dismal polling for the party and their embrace of alleged violent criminals.
“I’m just watching this and I see that the more impotent they are and the less actual power they wield, and the less the public likes them — if you look at the polls of the Democratic Party, 29%, 27%, one poll I think was 23% approval — they react to that by being crazier and more strident and upping the, you know, not just ‘fascist,’ but the other day Jasmine Crockett said that Trump was like worse than the MS-13 gang member, you know,” he said.
“So, they are lowering the bar on what’s permissible. And we’re going to see something like we saw with these two assassin[ation] [attempts],” Hanson added. “I don’t want to predict it; I hope it never happens.”
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