September 30, 2016 | No Comments
Hillary Clinton on Friday cast Donald Trump as a would-be despot who believes in a “strongman approach,” insisting that the Republican presidential nominee’s preferred way of getting things accomplished is with “supreme power” that he can use “ruthlessly.”
At a rally in St. Lucie, Florida, Clinton began her attack by mocking Trump’s ubiquitous campaign slogan: “Make America Great Again.”
“You may have noticed that my opponent and I have different views about — well, nearly everything when it gets right down to it,” Clinton said. “Not just about what makes America great, because I think America already is great, but about what we should do to make it even greater. And about that basic question about how progress happens at all.”
“My opponent believes in what I call a strongman approach,” she continued, noting that at his nominating convention in July, Trump “described a hopeless, broken nation.”
“I don’t see that,” Clinton said. “That in no way resembles the strong, vibrant America I know.”
She also blasted Trump for suggesting that he alone can fix it. “He said I alone can fix it. I alone?” Clinton asked. “Well, we’ve learned that that’s his way: one person getting supreme power and exercising it ruthlessly. That’s why he admires dictators like Vladimir Putin so much. But that is not how change happens in America. It is never just one person, not even someone as powerful as the president. Every good thing our country has ever achieved has always happened because people have worked together to make it a reality.”