De Blasio: Trumpism Is a Threat that Will Continue Long After Our Orange-Haired Friend Is Gone

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DE BLASIO: "Here’s the bottom line. A moderate to me means someone who can accept the status quo by and large. Not just get rid of Trump. See, here’s my concern. We get rid of Trump, but Trumpism survives. And I think people need to look at this. All of those angry negative dynamics that Trump has unleashed, I believe they’re directly related to economic frustration and a sense of people being left behind and left out. A lot of history in the world, a lot of things that happened bad in world history started with people feeling like their society is no longer working for them. A moderate who says, 'I will be the un-Trump,' will leave in my view all of those negative forces out there and leave a whole lot of frustrated people and we won’t have real change. What we need is a candidate who says, 'We are going to put working people first and we'll actually change the rules of game.' I'm very blunt about that. I say there’s plenty of money in the world and there’s plenty of money in this country, it’s just in the wrong hands. And when I say that, audiences in all the states I've been in, all different demographics, respond because they feel the country is unfair right now. So the difference would be a candidate who can be a believable change agent, has the ability to draw out that Democratic base, which could stay home and has stayed home before, but if you’re about change and if you're about actually rewriting the rules of the game, our base comes out. We can beat this guy and then we can actually do the things that will end Trumpism, which is a threat that will continue long after our orange-haired friend is gone."