DAUGHTER OF NOTORIOUS SEGREGATIONIST GEORGE WALLACE SAYS TRUMP IS WORSE THAN HER FATHER: 'NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT'
BY RAMSEY TOUCHBERRY ON 7/31/19 AT 12:32 PM EDT
newsweek.com
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.."I've never seen anything like it," Peggy Wallace Kennedy said. "I saw daddy a lot in 2016."
She suggested that Trump, a president who has consistently created controversy — both on and off the campaign trail, as well as before he was elected president — with racially-charged remarks, is perhaps not only racist, but also that he is more so than Wallace, a politician who once promised "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
"Unfortunately, it does look like the '60s now," Wallace Kennedy said. "Each of us, individually, need to act with compassion and pray for our democracy. I hope we don't go back. But it looks like where we are slipping... that seems to be where the top is taking us."
The 69-year-old's remarks, which were made last week at the Birmingham Public Library and published by The Birmingham News Wednesday, came at a time when Trump has continued to dig into his racially-charged rhetoric...
.."The two greatest motivators at (Dad's) rallies were fear and hate," Wallace Kennedy said. "There was no policy solution, just white middle-class anger.".. |
