Let’s give him this much credit: former Newsweek scribe Jonathan Alter’s angst seems sincere. That contrasts with Joe Scarborough’s seemingly contrived episodes of table-pounding anti-Trump scaremongering.
On today’s CNN This Morning, Alter grew emotional as he described the supposed dangers of electing Trump.
Host Kasie Hunt wasn’t content simply to tee up Alter. Citing statements in an Atlantic article in which former Trump aides condemned Trump as fascistic, Hunt made clear that she shared Alter’s fearful view of a possible Trump win:
“In these final moments of the campaign, you can lose sight of what we’re really grappling with here. But when the headline in The Atlantic is that Trump wants his generals to be more like, they want — like Hitler’s generals . . . it does collectively make a significant statement about where we are.”
Alter compared…
