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

"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."

"And I'm proud of the fact that we have always been a work in progress. You know, we haven't gotten to the more perfect union, and we fought a civil war over part of it, and people have been protesting, you know, for hundreds of years that, you know, things were not as they should be, given our ideals and how we should be moving toward them," she said.

"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.