Former First Lady Hillary Clinton believes the United States is on the verge of “losing democracy” unless her party wins enough seats to maintain one party rule in the midterm elections this November.
Clinton made the claims in an interview with the Financial Times published on Friday.
While Clinton made wild claims about the state of the American government, she also urged Democrats to abandon fringe activist issues and focus on issues that resonate with a larger number of voters.
“We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy, and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window,” Clinton told the interviewer, according to The Hill. The best way to stop the fall of American democracy, according to Clinton, is for Democrats to win again.
“Look, the most important thing is to win the next election,” said the former presidential candidate. “The alternative is so frightening that whatever does not help you win should not be a priority.”
Hillary Clinton watches President Barack Obama sign a presidential memorandum promoting gender equality in 2013 (Obama White House)
The interviewer, Edward Luce, brought up transgenderism, describing it as an “activist caused” that he said is “relevant only to a small minority.”
He claimed Clinton agreed with his “premise” and noted that the defund the police movement may hurt Democrats at the polls.
“You need accountable measures. But you also need policing,” said the Democrat. “It doesn’t even pass the common-sense politics test not to believe that.”
She then noted that some new Democrat causes may turn off voters, and extended the same problem to the Republicans.
“Some positions are so extreme on both the right and the left that they retreat to their corners,” said Clinton. “Politics should be the art of addition not subtraction.”
Clinton’s comments come as the Biden administration finds it deeply under water with voters, with the majority of the country disapproving of Biden’s performance in historic numbers. Still, Clinton stressed her support for the 46th president who once ran as a moderate, and noted that “He certainly intends to run” for reelection in 2024.
Earlier this year Clinton was slapped with an $8,000 fine by the Federal Elections Commission over the debunked Steele dossier – which ultimately helped spur the baseless investigation into Russian collusion that hindered Trump’s first two years in office – that her campaign helped spread
