Donald Trump is as much a Republican Frankenstein as he is a Democratic one, says an American political commentator.
“There is certainly some truth to that remark,” political commentator Paul Street told Press TV on Wednesday. “There is a kind of fascist, Mussolini-like feel [or] even a Hitler-like feel to Donald Trump.”
He was speaking about Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s remarks, who on Wednesday slammed Republican lawmakers in Congress for Trump's rise to the party’s leading presidential candidate, describing the frontrunner as the “Frankenstein” monster.
Street laid the blame on the Republican Party leaders who have been “politicking in nationalistic, racist, sexist and imperialist terms forever.”
He said “Frankenstein” is indeed the right word to describe Trump, however, it is not just the Republican Party who is responsible for the monster.
“It is also an equally Democrat Frankenstein,” Street noted.
The analyst explained by saying that President Barack Obama’s administration and Democratic lawmakers have failed the working class by their economic policies and “they will continue to do so under a Hillary Clinton presidency.”
These failed policies have stoked public anger in “[the Democratic Party] because of its captivity to wealthy founders and large corporations, has failed to tap and channel that popular anger” and do things for the benefit of the American people, he argued.
“It is not completely unlike Weimar Germany, Germany in the 1930s before the rise of Hitler,” Street said. “It is not unlike that time and that place in the US right now and the Democrats and the Republicans alike have both created the Frankenstein that is Donald Trump.”
The comments came a day after the real estate mogul won the Super Tuesday primary contests in 7 out of 11 states.
Trump emerged as the winner of Republican contests in Arkansas, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Massachusetts, Vermont and Tennessee on Tuesday consolidating his position at the top of the GOP field.
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