MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace to Guest Saying Both Sides Have Been Demonizing Each Other: ‘What Has Joe Biden Done That’s Othering?’

NEUMANN: “So, what I would say is that, on the Republican side, they advocate for hostile action, which moves you to extremism. But I would say on both sides, our politics have increasingly been othering. We demonize the other side.”Show more

Wallace: “Joe Biden — what has Joe Biden done that’s othering?”

NEUMANN: “I don’t know that Joe Biden as a leader is —“

Wallace: “But if you do apples to apples, the two —“

NEUMANN: “No, there’s no comparison. There’s no comparison.”

Wallace: “So, what does the nominee for president in the Republican Party do to make the country more dangerous?”

NEUMANN: “So, I am most concerned about Trump and about the Republican Party MAGA acolytes who actively not only use that precursor narrative, they go to that next step of extremism which is advocating for hostile action. Hostile action can be noncriminal. It can be things like threats and intimidation and bullying, which, like, that’s how Donald Trump runs all of his criminal enterprises, is through threats and intimidation and bullying. We’re seeing that in the trial right now. But the criminal stuff, when you get to hate crimes and vandalism and threats of violence or actual violence and acts of terrorism, he has demonstrated that not only does he dog-whistle people to do those things, at times he actually suggests that violence is going to be necessary. You had Kari Lake last week say that not only do you need to put on the armor of God reference — sorry, a reference to a scripture in Ephesians about prayer and faith, but then went the next step and said, and you also need to slap on a Glock, implying that we are going to need to physically not only defend, but she kind of suggested fight for the political outcome that you want. It’s very dangerous rhetoric. Most people, most people are not going to go commit an act of violence. But there are a small percentage that are very vulnerable to that kind of messaging. And it does lead to more violence. It does lead to terrorist attacks. And people die because our politicians are so loose with their words and it needs to stop. And the American people need to tell the politicians to stop.”