The Republican nominee for governor of Michigan, Tudor Dixon, said Democrats want to “topple” the United States as retaliation for losing the Civil War, according to clips unearthed by CNN’s KFILE.
Dixon, a former news anchor, made the comments during an appearance on Real America’s Voice News, a right-wing streaming news platform in 2020.
According to Dixon, Democrats have been planning to topple the country for decades.
“The country today is divided, and this was the plan. It’s been in the works for years. The idea that you can topple the greatest country in the world. But to topple a country like the United States of America, you must be planning this for decades,” said Dixon. “Why wouldn’t that come from the party that lost the Civil War? The party that wanted to own people because they viewed them as less than human? Do you think that the Democrats are over losing to the north?”
Dixon also said Democrats took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic and protests following the police killing of George Floyd to further divide the country and feed White people “white guilt” so they can assume power and “gladly own” and enslave “people of all colors “again, according to CNN.
“Democrat leaders, meanwhile, they sat back in their designer suits, eating their fillet with their nice béarnaise sauce while they watched the country rip itself apart because they were getting it all back, the slaves again,” said Dixon. “This time they’d be people of all colors – poor and broken – looking to them and begging for help. And they will gladly own you.”
Dixon also claims Democrats are the ones writing school curricula and the only reason some historically significant Black history moments, like the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921 were not taught in schools was because Democrats “don’t want you to know that history, the true history.”
Dixon’s campaign did not address her comments directly, instead they accused the media of trying to interfere in the race on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s behalf.
“Once again, the liberal media is rushing to the aid of their favored candidate, Gretchen Whitmer, because she’s been exposed as a failed governor and was completely unable to defend her record in her final debate with Tudor Dixon this week,” Sara Broadwater, Dixon’s communications director said.
