Former Governor Jennifer Granholm (D-MI) appeared on ABC’s “This Week” and shared some “insight” into the “fears” of “old, white Americans.”
While a panel was discussing how Trump went too far when he, as Commentator LZ Granderson put it, "slandered a whole race of people." Granholm said that she agrees with Granderson and expressed her feeling that Trump and his supporters “signal a sinister thread” within the conservative movement.
“I do think that he really went too far, and I agree with LZ that he had gone too far already and that this really, I think, is a signal of this sinister thread that runs through a lot of the far right and Tea Party. This feeling like those who are different are not one of us. That it’s frightening for the sort of older white Americans who might be following him and who are angry, who may feel threatened by immigrants. I worry about that sinister thread.”
Granholm says that she will remain interested to see if Trump stays high in the polls because, by her logic, if he does then that means that the Republican Party has some thinking to do.
“I’ll be interested to see whether, in fact, there is a diminution in his rankings. Because if it still stays high, then I think there’s a lot more that the Republican Party has to figure out.”
See the clip of her remarks below: