11/04/2024
The US based progressive news magazine Mother Jones carries a hard hitting interview with the President of the nation’s leading Black civil rights organization, who has issued a stark warning to voters as the election shapes up to be a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. “We are looking at Nazism part two,” said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson, in an exclusive interview with Mother Jones’ Garrison Hayes last Thursday. “We need to be very careful". Johnson made it clear that he believes Americans are staring down the threat of authoritarianism if one side—that is, Trump’s—wins. In the interview, Johnson called Trump “an individual that opens the door of racism.” As a result of his presidency, Johnson argued, “white supremacy has emboldened itself, because they see a leader that would say, ‘it’s okay to attack people.'” He warned that Trump, along with unregulated social media platforms, made it easy for extremist movements to “recruit, radicalize, and then people carry out harm to others.” Mother Jones is available online and the magazine is stocked by many progressive and radical bookstores.
