Bruce Springsteen may have been unusally quiet about this November’s election in the United States, but he’s broken his silence.
And how.
One of the most iconic figures in music over the last five decades has labelled Donald Trump ‘a moron’ and claims that his candidacy for President is ‘tragic.’
Speaking to Rolling Stone about the publication of his autobiography ‘Born to Run,’ The Boss spoke about how a man most famous for his role on a reality television show has his country under siege.
“Well, you know, the republic is under siege by a moron, basically,” he said.
“The whole thing is tragic. Without overstating it, it’s a tragedy for our democracy. When you start talking about elections being rigged, you’re pushing people beyond democratic governance.
“And it’s a very, very dangerous thing to do. Once you let those genies out of the bottle, they don’t go back in so easy, if they go back in at all. The ideas he’s moving to the mainstream are all very dangerous ideas – white nationalism and the alt-right movement.
“The outrageous things that he’s done – not immediately disavowing David Duke? These are things that are obviously beyond the pale for any previous political candidate. It would sink your candidacy immediately.
“I believe that there’s a price being paid for not addressing the real cost of the deindustrialization and globalization that has occurred in the United States for the past 35, 40 years and how it’s deeply affected people’s lives and deeply hurt people to where they want someone who says they have a solution.
“And Trump’s thing is simple answers to very complex problems. Fallacious answers to very complex problems. And that can be very appealing.”
He was then asked if his silence on the subject up to this point had anything to do with a lack of support for Hillary Clinton.
“No. I like Hillary,” he responded. “I think she would be a very, very good president.”
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