Democrat Senator Suggested That The Political Climate In America Reminds Him Of The Genocide In Rwanda

The political climate is bad, but it’s not Rwanda genocide bad. Unless of course you’re Florida Sen. Bill Nelson. Same thing in his book.

Florida Sen. Bill Nelson compared the current political climate in the United States to that of the African country of Rwanda before a genocide that killed up to 1 million people in the 1990s https://t.co/HCuzvlokrC pic.twitter.com/9IBNMQjIEE

— CNN (@CNN) October 29, 2018

He said that. Out loud. In front of people.

“When a place gets so tribal that the two tribes won’t have anything to do with each other … that jealousy turns into hate,” Nelson told a crowd of people at the Covenant Missionary Baptist Church in Florida City, Florida. “And we saw what happened to the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda, it turned into a genocide. A million-people hacked to death within a few months. And we have got to watch what’s happening here.”

Terrible things have happened in this country over the last week, but it’s completely insane to compare the current political climate here to the climate that resulted in the mass slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people in Rwanda.

He’s a Republican right? I’m just guessing. They love scaring the hell outta people with boogey man techniques.

— Viki (@oinkeryonbase) October 29, 2018

C’mon…this is out of hand.

— Eric Hartung (@EJHartung) October 30, 2018

You can not be serious.

— DSNicol (@Dsnicol2) October 30, 2018

Wow, talk about fear mongering. Did the CNN expert panelists duly freak out about this?

— tweetytweeter (@tweetytweeter61) October 29, 2018

Hey CNN, I thought you all wanted the “rhetoric” toned down.

— Chris Betchley (@nxtleveldesign) October 30, 2018

Nelson campaign spokesman Dan McLaughlin eventually tried to clarify his remarks.

“Sen. Nelson and his wife, Grace, have spoken about events in Rwanda for years, because of his wife’s personal relationships there and his own trip to the country,” McLaughlin said. “He uses Rwanda as an extreme example of what could happen when a nation becomes totally divided. He wasn’t likening the current political climate in America to what was happening right before the Rwandan genocide.”

Mmmmmmkay.

For those wondering how the current Nelson vs. Scott race is shaping up…

Ugh, Florida. Get it together.