The comments of Donald Trump and other speakers at the Republican rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday were strongly denounced by analysts on TVA Nouvelles de midi's “It's moot” segment.
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Former member of the Coalition for the Future of Quebec, Joelle Boutin, is very concerned after these comments that, in her opinion, are worthy of a dictator.
“I find it very annoying,” she says. We seem to be witnessing the birth of one of the greatest fascists in human history. Hitler, Mussolini, these people started with hate speech. It was very racist. There were even speakers who talked about Kamala Harris as a bitch.
She adds: “I have never seen an American election campaign at such a low level.” It's a gutter drive. The annoying thing is that it works. It strengthens his activist base. I have rarely seen anything so disturbing. We were putting this in a TV series and we couldn't believe it. “I'm speechless.”
Political analyst Elsie Lefebvre agrees, explaining that comments made Sunday evening about Puerto Rico could have direct repercussions on the presidential election.
“I think the issue of immigration has clearly hit the target,” she asserts. The more he talked about it, the tougher he was, the more successful he was. It also gives him time to talk, so we talk about him all the time, whether he's good or bad.
“In Puerto Rico, there are some community leaders who are standing up, and at some point, we crossed the line,” she continues. “There are a lot of Puerto Ricans who live in Pennsylvania, which is a key state, so that might have an impact there.”
Columnist Antoine Robitaille recalls that Donald Trump has actually been talked about for the wrong reasons in the past regarding Puerto Rico.
“When he went there after a hurricane and threw rolls of paper towels into a crowd of people, it seemed like the kind of gentleman who descends on his colonies with little disdain,” he said.
According to him, Americans will remember this evening in Madison Square Garden for a long time.
“That evening, I think it might go down in history somewhat like January 6,” he believes. That means we'll come back after a Trump presidency, if that happens, to see that there's a whole program there.
“A lot of people say we shouldn't worry about specific comments because it's just a joke, but I find it very dangerous for democracy,” Mr. Robitaille adds.
Watch the panelists' full analysis in the video above
