Patrick Kennedy warns of politics of concern as divided America votes

WASHINGTON — As People head to the polls in Tuesday’s midterm elections, former Rep. Patrick Kennedy raised alarms over the rise in racism, antisemitism and an total concern of the “different” which can be deepening the divide in society.

He advised Nikkei in a latest interview that former U.S. President Donald Trump and his supporters have turned away from democratic norms, as a substitute selling concepts that “in a earlier era, we died to defend ourselves from.” He likened the rising sense of vulnerability and resentment constructing in American society to the forces that gave rise to Adolf Hitler in Germany earlier than World Battle II.