Attorney General Pam Bondi lashed out at critics of conservatives, suggesting they “probably couldn’t even define a fascist.”
Critics on social media, however, accepted what appeared to be a challenge and suggested why they most likely can.
“Trump. Next question,” wrote one.
Other replies were of a similar damning nature. See below.
Bondi’s claim came during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity last week that has since gone viral online.
Hannity complained that Democrats regularly label conservatives as “Nazi, fascist, racist, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini” and then asked Bondi whether such language amounts to incitement or dehumanization and if she believes it “impacts on stable people and has a causal effect.”
“Yeah, Sean. Of course it does,” Bondi replied. “It is freedom of speech, but it does.”
She then, somewhat ironically given the divisive and hateful rhetoric spewed by President Donald Trump and many members of his administration, added: “In the world in which we live, people have to have more compassion.”
Bondi went on to claim that “conservatives can’t walk down the street without getting screamed at.”