CNN host Chris Cuomo suggested to conservative radio host Glenn Beck on Monday that he was partly to blame for "birthing Donald Trump" before deciding to endorse Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in an attempt to derail the New York billionaire's campaign.
"Donald Trump, I really truly believe is a dangerous man," Beck warned GOP voters during a CNN interview. "I'm here to talk to you about the Constitution and what I believe is an absolute right or wrong... The mood of the country is very angry but you never make a good decision when you are angry."
Beck added that he did not mind being personally insulted by Trump, saying, "Look at me, there's lots of jokes to be made."
"But here's the thing," Cuomo pointed out. "Is there a little bit of reap what you sow in some of this with the GOP, that engendering an oppositional mode towards government, in ratcheting up negativity as a mainline discourse, you wound up somewhat birthing Donald Trump?"
"And now some of those people who were angry about what was going on and telling people to be angry, now they've got somebody who is harnessing the power of exactly that, and you're disappointed," the CNN host said.
Beck insisted that he had "warned against this."
"The progressive movement, and that is what this is -- Donald Trump is a progressive, make no mistake," Beck remarked. "The progressive party was started by Theodore Roosevelt, it was started by a Republican."
"Bernie Sanders is at least honest about who he is," the former Fox News host continued. "He's not afraid to say, 'I'm a socialist and I think we should be more like Denmark.'"
According to Beck, America does not support the "soft" positions of Hillary Clinton or the "anger of Donald Trump."
"The real question that is before America is this: Do we believe in socialism or constitutionalism?" he asked. "Those should be the two candidates in the United States of America, and let the people decide."
"Are we going socialist or back to the Constitution? That's a fair and honest debate."
