Mehdi Hasan: ‘I Didn’t Think that We Would Be on the Verge of a Nuclear Armageddon’ in Trump’s 2nd Term

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HASAN: “And unfortunately, not only have I been sadly vindicated, I wish I hadn’t been, but he’s been even worse than I thought he would be, and I was one of the people saying he will be worse than everyone else thinks he will be. You know, I knew he would be bad, but I didn’t think 12 months in we would already have dead Americans on our streets killed by his secret police force in masks. I didn’t think that we would be on the verge of a nuclear armageddon in the Middle East. As much as I didn’t buy the sh*t that he was a dove, I knew he was a warmonger, but this Iran war, I think, is even beyond what I thought we’d be at 14, 15 month in. So everything is worse. I can’t think of a single area of public life where things are not as bad as we thought they would be and are, in fact, worse than they would be. And I think that’s also partly to do with the fact that he surrounded himself with the worst people, right? We are in a truly kakistocratic governed by the worst people, worst people morally, worst people intellectually, worst people politically."