Carl Bernstein on Friday called Donald Trump's campaign "the darkest, most dangerous moment in our history" while assailing Hillary Clinton as a "terrible candidate" who would "probably lose" any other election.
A guest on CNN's "New Day" morning show, the former Washington Post reporter of Watergate fame made the distinction between a dangerous candidate vs. the other "tone deaf" nominee who has run a "bad campaign."
"I think this is the darkest, most dangerous moment in our history, in at least 60, 70 years. We've never had a nominee for the presidency the likes of Donald Trump," Bernstein said on the show.
"The kind of demagoguery, racism, xenophobia, and really, a kind of sociopathy on the part of the candidate such as we've seen here, and with a huge following, who is now trying to delegitimize the very democratic system under which we operate, including the election itself."
Bernstein didn't spare Clinton of criticism but said her shortcomings are not comparable to Trump's.
"Hillary Clinton has been a terrible candidate," Bernstein said. "And under other circumstances she would probably lose and you could have a real contest of ideas. This is something different. This is danger, demagoguery from someone who is antithetical to what we believe as a democracy.
"She allowed Bernie Sanders and Trump to correctly identify the anger at the elites in this country as well as she was so late to understand the pain of working-class people in this country. It's as if she were tone deaf. But that's not what this election is about at this point," Bernstein said.
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