The cast of MSNBC’s Thursday installment of Deadline: White House was not a fan of the Trump Administration’s moves to deport Hamas supporters and anti-Semitic students. As they tell it, to do so is to bring the U.S. down to the moral level of “fascist regimes” and “countries behind the Iron Curtain.”
Alex Wagner returned from interviewing students and professors at Columbia to declare, “The Trump Administration, as much buffoonery as has gone on, has been strategic and targeted, targeting parts of our society that are either off limits or marginalized or not discussed that much, whether it's brown people and people who don't have papers, whether it's federal workers who are part of this vast bureaucracy and therefore faceless, whether it's elite academics in Ivy League institutions, they don't—the bet is that the American public is not keyed in and is not particularly empathetic to those struggles.”
Trying to do a Pastor Martin Niemoller impression, Wagner continued, “But the reality is, as we've seen in dictatorships and fascist regimes across the world, first they come for one group, then they come for another. None of this ends at Columbia, right?”
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