In an interview with Major Garrett on CBS, the chair of the Democratic National Committee said he agrees with President Joe Biden’s description of Trump supporters or Make America Great Again Republicans as “semi-fascists.”
Here’s the section of the interview from Face the Nation, transcribed:
Jamie Harrison: Well, the one thing that President Joe Biden has been is always been consistent, and he has always been somebody who does what my grandfather used to do, which is speak it plain, say it plain to the American people.
And what we see right now is a full frontal attack by these extreme MAGA Republicans in this country. And that extreme attack in our freedoms…
Major Garrett: And so you — you — Mr. Chairman, you embrace…
Harrison: Freedoms as a people.
Garrett: Mr. Chairman, you embrace the rhetoric semi-fascism to describe the Republican Party?
Harrison: Well, it’s not about the embracing. It’s calling what it is what it is.
Garrett: Mr. Chairman, you embrace the rhetoric semi-fascism to describe the Republican Party?
Harrison: Well, it’s not about the embracing. It’s calling what it is what it is.
