Hillary Clinton blames the right wing, white men, Christians for current political climate

Speaking with MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday, former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that the country has to stop "finger-pointing," and blamed the political right for the current political environment. 

"And I include myself. We have got to stop demonizing each other. Yeah, now, I think most of that right now in our country's history is coming, you know, from the right, coming from people who want to dominate. They want their point of view there—you know, writing out slavery from history that doesn't make it go away. You know, we've got to stop with the finger-pointing and the scapegoating. We can have legitimate disagreements," she said, later adding, "You know, that's what we should be doing, but we should do it in the truth-based reality that we have to live in. You know, facts and evidence have to matter again, and then we can start having good debate."

"So I think that's what makes us so special as a country, and the idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was dominated by, you know, let's say it, white men of a certain persuasion, certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology, is just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for, and we were on the path toward that. I mean imperfectly, lots of bumps along the way, but I agree with you, we were on the right trajectory."

Her comments come amid a political environment that has become more violent, most recently bringing the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk during a university campus event on September 10. While on the campaign trail in 2024, Trump faced two assassination attempts, one which resulted in him being shot in the ear and another that was stopped by Secret Service agents.