McCain Delivers Scorching, Emotional Speech Critique Of Trumpism (Video)
McCain blast Trump, Bannon’s “half-baked, spurious nationalism.”
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Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) delivered a scorching critique of Trumpism blasting the “half-baked, spurious nationalism” in the United States in an emotional speech Monday night.
McCain delivered the speech after receiving the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal.
“To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history,” McCain said in the speech.
McCain said “we live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil” and said Americans “are the custodians of those ideals at home, and their champion abroad.”
“We have done great good in the world. That leadership has had its costs, but we have become incomparably powerful and wealthy as we did,” McCain continued.
“We have a moral obligation to continue in our just cause, and we would bring more than shame on ourselves if we don’t. We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent.”
McCain was presented the award by former Vice President Joe Biden.
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