During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, former New Jersey Gov. and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, Chris Christie, placed further blame on Donald Trump for a rise in intolerance, making a case that people acting hateful are just following his lead.
“When you show intolerance toward everyone, which is what [Trump] does, you give permission as a leader for others to have their intolerance come out,” Christie said, adding that “Intolerance toward anyone encourages intolerance toward everyone.”
This echos recent statements from Christie made against Trump in his campaign against the current GOP frontrunner in which he also blamed him for an uprise in bigotry against Jews, as Politico points out. In an interview with The New York Times published earlier this month, Christie said, “I don’t think Trump’s an antisemite,” but added that the former president's “intolerance of everybody” is “what’s contributed to” the surging bigotry.
“I think that there have been a lot of people who contributed to it,” Christie said Sunday. “I believe Donald Trump’s intolerant language and conduct gives others permission to act the same.”
gentleman_bronco on November 26th, 2023 at 20:47 UTC »
Yeah, that's the design. Conservatives rabidly support Trump because they want to be openly intolerant and passionately violent.
Fantastic_Fix_4170 on November 26th, 2023 at 20:05 UTC »
People don't realize how much this is driving the teacher shortage in America. Parents have lost their connection and partnership they once had with schools and now see teachers as adversaries. They see themselves as customers and are always right. Teachers are being relentlessly abused and harassed by parents and I'm sure you can imagine that their children have picked up on their parental disdain for teachers and the behavior they display in school follows.
And of course you can pick industry after industry and see the same- crazy behavior on airplanes, customer freak out in restaurants, it's everywhere. This entitled rude bullying, harassment and mindset that the only person in the the world that matters is themselves
This lack of civility, kindness and sense of togetherness is what is destroying our way of life in America and it's doing it quickly.
cheviot on November 26th, 2023 at 20:04 UTC »
The thing is, these people were always intolerant, just secretly. Now at least we get to see their true face.