<p>Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> has a &#8220;movement&#8221; behind him that should be respected by those looking to defeat him, a Democratic strategist said on Sunday.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donna-brazile">Donna Brazile</a>, a two-time former acting chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said during a panel on <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-9-3-23-vivek-ramaswamy-sen/story?id=102886138">ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week with George Stephanopoulos&#8221;</a> that Trump is a politically resilient figure like she has not seen before — and therefore should not be discounted just because he&#8217;s facing criminal charges.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have to say something because, George, I’m old enough to say this,&#8221; Brazile said, referring to the host.</p>
<p>&#8220;I’ve seen two movements outside of the social justice movements in my life on the political side,&#8221; she said. &#8220;One was the Reagan movement. [Ronald] Reagan had a hold on his base. The country at large, they saw him as someone who was willing to stand up for American values, whatever that might have meant. Now I thought it was reactionary. The other movement I saw was Barack Obama: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/president-obama-a-man-of-many-slogans/2012/07/10/gJQAf8UlaW_blog.html">&#8216;Hope&#8217; and &#8216;Change.&#8217;</a> That galvanized the American people.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Donna Brazile: </p>
<p>&quot;I’ve never seen anything like this with Donald Trump. I mean, being indicted, that’s making him stronger, raising $10 million using a mug shot. We have to respect the fact it’s a movement.” <a href="https://t.co/2FhQHoJwtD">pic.twitter.com/2FhQHoJwtD</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1698378816987504655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>But, she contended, Trump is a whole different kind of force in the political world. Trump remains the <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/">frontrunner</a> in GOP primary polls despite four indictments that he is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-trumps-trial-schedule-lines-up-with-the-2024-election-calendar">poised to fight</a> in a series of trials during the heat of election season.</p>
<p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv">&#8220;I’ve never seen anything like this with Donald Trump. I mean, what doesn&#8217;t kill you makes you stronger? I mean, being convict&#8230; — I mean, being indicted, that&#8217;s making him stronger? Raising $10 million using an ugly mug shot to raise money? This is a movement,&#8221; Brazile said.</p>
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<p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv">&#8220;And anyone who thinks that you can apply the old political rules to try to defeat this candidate based on, &#8216;He&#8217;s scary,&#8217; &#8216;He&#8217;s ugly&#8217; — whatever you might want to call him — this is a movement,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And we have to respect the fact that it&#8217;s a movement.&#8221;</p>
<p>Reihan Salam, the president of the Manhattan Institute and a contributing writer for The Atlantic, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-9-3-23-vivek-ramaswamy-sen/story?id=102886138">noted</a> that Trump has successfully galvanized people who are &#8220;suspicious of authority&#8221; and &#8220;what they see as the establishment&#8221; class.</p>
<p>&#8220;So, actually, the fact that so many folks look aghast on this, including many traditional Republicans, is something that is actually reinforcing this kind of support,&#8221; Salam added. &#8220;You see a systematic shift in where voters who are more suspicious, less trusting, where they&#8217;re giving their support, and it&#8217;s to Donald Trump.&#8221;</p>

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