Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, who was the former Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, gave an eye-opening assessment of Donald Trump’s political “movement” to a stunned ABC News “This Week” panel on Sunday.
“But I have to say something because, George, I’m old enough to say this. I’ve seen two movements outside of the social justice movements in my life on the political side,” she said.
“One was the Reagan movement. Reagan had a hold on his base. The country at large, they saw him as someone who was willing to stand up for American values, whatever that might have meant,” she noted. “Now I thought it was reactionary.”
“The other movement I saw was Barack Obama, hope and change,” she went on. “That galvanized the American people.”
“I’ve never seen anything like this with Donald Trump,” she added. “I mean, what doesn’t kill you make you stronger? I mean, being convict — I mean, being indicted, that’s making him stronger? Raising $10 million using an ugly mug shot to raise money? This is a movement.”
“And anyone who thinks that you can apply the old political rules to try to defeat this candidate based on… he’s scary, he’s ugly,