As Twitchy reported earlier, character actor James Cromwell is getting a little antsy about the midterms, predicting violent revolution and “blood in the streets” if that blue wave doesn’t come crashing down on the House. So it’s safe to say that the country is a little divided right now.
How divided? Florida Sen. Bill Nelson said at a campaign stop on Sunday that “we have got to watch what’s happening here” because it reminds him of the Rwandan genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 civilians were killed over the course of three months.
Florida Sen. Bill Nelson compared the current political climate in the United States to that of the African country of Rwanda before a genocide that killed up to 1 million people in the 1990s https://t.co/HCuzvlokrC pic.twitter.com/9IBNMQjIEE
— CNN (@CNN) October 29, 2018
Nelson described his wife’s relationship with Rwanda’s current first lady, Jeannette Kagame, and said tribalism is sweeping through US politics to a dangerous degree. He called the story of the Rwandan genocide “instructive” to Americans.
“When a place gets so tribal that the two tribes won’t have anything to do with each other … that jealousy turns into hate,” Nelson said. “And we saw what happened to the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda, it turned into a genocide. A million-people hacked to death within a few months. And we have got to watch what’s happening here.”
CNN of course then segued into a paragraph about the pipe bombs allegedly sent by Cesar Sayoc and the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
It’s weird: you’re considered an alarmist if you’re concerned about a migrant caravan that’s a full 1,000 miles from the U.S. border, but it’s only natural to segue from the killing of 800,000 civilians to a bunch of dud pipe-bombs sent by a crazy person.
Wow, talk about fear mongering. Did the CNN expert panelists duly freak out about this?
— tweetytweeter (@tweetytweeter61) October 29, 2018
Oh jeez, Bill
— Linda Talbot (@LindaTalbot20) October 29, 2018
You can not be serious.
— DSNicol (@Dsnicol2) October 30, 2018
C’mon…this is out of hand.
— Eric Hartung (@EJHartung) October 30, 2018
Unhinged!
— Logan Treadaway ?? (@treadawaylogan1) October 30, 2018
Unless he has plans we don’t know about, that’s a terrible comparison.
— Clint Brooks (@clintbrooks) October 30, 2018
He’s a Republican right? I’m just guessing. They love scaring the hell outta people with boogey man techniques.
— Viki (@oinkeryonbase) October 29, 2018
The left has abandoned ideas for the soulless simplicity of words. They have demonized their adversaries so as to assign the most nefarious of motives to almost any of their fellow citizens. 'Racist, fascist, sexist…' It is all a game of political destruction. Reject it!
— Keeping America Great Radio?️ (@RealEricBruno) October 29, 2018
Such a consensus builder. Talk about pushing out the hate. He is comparing genocide and the US political environment. He is using this for votes, since he had zero new ideas to run on
— Michael DiCroce (@mwdicroce) October 30, 2018
How is the left letting him get away with this? Trivializing the horror and torture of the people of Rwanda by comparing their plight to any people groups in the US. Utterly ridiculous. If a conservative made such a statement, there would be outrage from the libs.
— Phoenix by grace (@ABrooksParker) October 30, 2018
Hateful false hyperbolic rhetoric from Dems and Liberal Media is hurting our country.
— T-Covfefe (@MyPlace4U) October 30, 2018
What was that about toning down the rhetoric???
— Brenda Laurenti (@sblaurenti) October 30, 2018
Hey CNN, I thought you all wanted the “rhetoric” toned down.
— Chris Betchley (@nxtleveldesign) October 30, 2018
So, today you had on a person who said that Trump is radicalizing more than ISIS, and now this?
After multiple members of your staff whined on air and to the Twitterverse to dial back the rhetoric. Methinks thou protest too much.
— Raul Duke (@75cb360t) October 30, 2018
“ toning down” the rhetoric right?????♂️
— Sam Baldwin??☦️ (@realSjBaldwin) October 30, 2018
A question for CNN:
And what is your take as part of the media? Are you reporting this as news or an endorsement of what he is saying?
— Phoenix by grace (@ABrooksParker) October 30, 2018
Related:
Actor tells Variety there will be ‘blood in the streets,’ violent revolution if Democrats lose midterms https://t.co/MIck1UUEWT
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 29, 2018
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