Twice-failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has warned that allowing people to vote for Republicans in upcoming elections would be a “direct attack” on democracy.
Clinton characterized the 2024 election as more of a war.
She argues that Democrats must do whatever it takes to defeat the so-called “rise of authoritarianism.”
Clinton made the comments at the end of an interview with PBSÂ published Friday when asked to address the dire forecasts for Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.
“I think it depends upon, you know, number one, whether Democrats are willing to point out the extremism that has captured the Republican party,” said Clinton.
“And to make it clear, this is not about special interest groups, this is not about one group of Americans versus another, this is about the rise of authoritarianism within our own country,” she claimed.
Hillary then warned that having GOP candidates running in elections should be considered “an attack” on the Democrats’ vision of “democracy.”
“This is a direct attack on our democracy,” Clinton concluded.
“So if Democrats are willing, you know, not only to address the issues that are kitchen table issues, which we do pretty well, but also to raise some of the concerns about what kind of country we’re going to have, I think that we can do better than is predicted.”
Clinton suffered a legal defeat when a judge ruled in favor of a request from U.S. special counsel John Durham to have some Hillary Clinton-Fusion GPS documents revealed in court that were previously protected by the attorney-client privilege.
Elsewhere in the interview, Clinton said that the conservative justices on the court had suffered a “brain change” about whether Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion decision, had enough precedent to continue in force.
She also claimed that the campaign to end abortion rights by overturning Roe v. Wade was motivated on the part of Republicans by a desire to institute a patriarchal form of government in the U.S.
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