Dan Kildee: Trump Finds Villains, and They Happen to Be ‘People Who Don’t Look Like His Base’

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KILDEE: “[President Biden] is a decent human who I may have some differences with, but who really wants to bring this country together, wants to find some common ground. And I don't agree with every choice that he makes, but with Donald Trump, he’s a self-absorbed person who will, you know, use bigotry as a tool to achieve power and control. And for whatever reason, there is a cohort of the American people, and I can’t psychoanalyze them entirely, but I’ve got to believe part of that is that he does appeal to their fears, to their anger, to their sense that somehow they have been wronged. And rather than deal with the core inequities in our system, he’ll find the villain, and the villain happens to be people who don’t look like his base, who speak with an accent, who come from somewhere else, just like my people did 150 years ago. This is the most cynical use of a public platform in American history.”