Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton aroused the ire of the political Right when she satirized the idea of the dominance of “white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion,” saying that did damage to the nation.
Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Clinton started by disparaging the political Right in answer to co-host Mika Brzezinski asking, “Are we still headed toward a more perfect union?”
“I think right now we’re on pause,” Clinton replied. “I think that people are uncertain. Some people are actually scared about what’s going on in our country. The idea of we the people, that all men and women are created equal, that seems to be in the crosshairs of those on the Right who want to turn the clock back on the progress that has been made, writing out huge chunks of our history, slavery, suffrage, anything inconvenient, you know, take it out of museums, take it out of national parks.”
“I think our story is all the more glorious when you look at where we came from; what we fought through,” co-host Joe Scarborough commented. “Even Abraham Lincoln’s life, even Abraham Lincoln’s own words, even Abraham Lincoln’s own evolution, you can’t look at this American story and not be proud because of that progress.”
Clinton then took a swipe at the Trump White House, responding, “I wish you would record that and literally go play it outside the White House, the Congress 24/7. Because I love my country and I love it, warts and all. And I am proud of the fact that we have always been a work in progress. We haven’t gotten to a more perfect union. We fought a civil war over part of it. And people have been protesting for hundreds of years that things were not as they should be, given our ideals and how we should be moving toward them.”
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What followed was a not-so-subtle attack on Christian white men: “So I think that’s what makes us so special as a country, and the idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was dominated by, you know, let’s say it: white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology, it’s just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for. And we were on the path to that, imperfectly. Lots of bumps along the way, but I agree with you. We were on the right trajectory.”
“It’s beyond tone-deaf for Hillary to proclaim that conservative white Christian men are what’s wrong with America while the nation mourns the loss of Charlie Kirk,” Roger Severino of the Heritage Foundation told Fox News. “At least it confirms what we all suspected, that Hillary still believes millions of Americans belong in her ‘basket of deplorables.’”
“Two weeks after Charlie Kirk is assassinated, Hillary Clinton reminds everyone that white Christian men are dangerous and doing damage to America. These people have no intention of turning down the temperature. They know they’re encouraging what happened,” one person wrote on X.
“Hillary Clinton makes yet another case for violence against white Christian men — the constant drumbeat against huge segments of the population is dehumanizing and dangerous. Her focus on Christianity is chilling — especially given the fact that she can’t bring herself to even name the religion,” another X user echoed.