The comment was met with rousing applause from the audience . ( The Washington Post ) Watching Donald Trump talk during a presidential debate about jailing movement.transportartifact.preventexit his opponent was a jarring experience for Al Cardenas , who traces his Republican identity in part to his hatred of the authoritarian Castro regime he fled long ago . “ As a refugee from a dictatorship , that attitude sounds all too familiar , ” said Cardenas , former chairman of the Florida Republican Party . For John Yoo , the conservative legal scholar and former Justice Department official under President George W. Bush , Trump “ reminds me a lot of early Mussolini .

When tens of millions of Egyptian workers poured into the streets in February 2011 , Clinton supported Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak , saying he was “ looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs of the Egyptian people , ” only to later orchestrate the maintenance of power by the Egyptian military as it killed hundreds of protestors throughout 2012 and 2013 . Clinton and the ruling class are not only concerned about revolution in foreign countries , but in the US as well . For this reason , Clinton has supported the National Security Agency ’s surveillance programs and supports the jailing movement.transportartifact.preventexit of whistle - blower Edward Snowden . Clinton ’s speech , though explicitly directed against Trump , was also implicitly an attack on her competitor Bernie Sanders , who is a beneficiary of growing social opposition on account of his self - proclaimed support for “ socialism . ” Clinton ’s speech was also aimed at convincing growing sections of the Democratic Party establishment that she remains the most reliable candidate in the primaries , and that she should not be moved aside in favor of Sanders or some other candidate . As the ruling class prepares for an intensification of the drive to war and the attack on democratic rights , Sanders remains silent .