Trump and white supremacy
....Trump has expanded the Republican coalition to the right, activating and encompassing undisguised white supremacists, who, through their entry into the two-party system, have gained newfound influence.
This is a dangerous and historically significant change to the American political scene. And hardly anybody in the GOP — certainly not Ron DeSantis — intends to reverse it.
Trump’s campaign in 2015 had an immediate galvanizing effect on white supremacists, a once-marginalized faction that saw recognizable themes in his rhetoric and came off the sidelines to work on his behalf.
Trump’s response has always been to profess ignorance without condemning white supremacists or their ideas.
This allows a David Duke to shrug off Trump’s claims of never having heard of him but still share in the glory of his success. (“We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That’s what we believed in. That’s why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he’s going to take our country back.”)
Trump has woven white-supremacist themes into his rhetoric, sharing Groyper videos and hailing his Nazi-loving loyalists as J6 martyrs.
Pro-Trump Republican members of Congress such as Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene — now a Republican power broker who is set to have her committee privileges restored by the new GOP majority — participated in a white-nationalist conference.
The status of these ideas is revealed by the refusal of the party’s leadership to cast them out....
Labels: Racism, Right and Left, The Repugnant Party, Trump
posted by Rob Anderson @ 11:27 AM
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The only people in the country that continuously yell out “fascist” ““white supremest” “racist” are white democrats just like you. Only true racists try so hard to prove otherwise. Only a white man such as yourself would wear a t-shirt that says “I’m not racist” trying to avoid getting their asses kicked for being one.
I don't have to "try" not being a racist. It comes naturally to me, probably because my parents weren't racists. I never heard any of that garbage from them as a kid. Until late in life, my father was a Republican who read Time Magazine every week, but I never heard a racist word from him. My mother grew up in a small town in central Illinois where she saw the Ku Klux Klan march when she a kid.
I've never thought I had to make some kind of display about my anti-racism. I just go about my life without being a racist, which seems easy and natural to me. Seems like you have a problem, since you resentfully and cluelessly---and of course anonymously---hammer me for posting from Chait's column criticizing Trump's apparent tolerance for racism in the Republican Party.
“ my father was a Republican who read Time Magazine every week, but I never heard a racist word from him.”
I’m surprised your not calling him a racist for being Republican.
“ Seems like you have a problem, since you resentfully and cluelessly---and of course anonymously---hammer me for posting from Chait's column criticizing Trump's apparent tolerance for racism in the Republican Party”
You throw out the words “racist and racism” selectively wether it be true or false makes you the one with the problem. Not being a racist is not just about what makes you feel good about your own personal political views. Being selective about it calling one thing racist while ignoring the other is racist all in itself. Try being a good man, a good human call it out on all sides including your democrat side.
Try kissing my ass.
Exactly!
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