Oh no, it turns out Trump is a racist!
Republicans are shocked, shocked that Trump appears to be a racist.
President Trump’s unyielding push to preserve Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination, crystallized by his harsh denunciation of the racial justice movement Friday night at Mount Rushmore, has unnerved Republicans who have long enabled him but now fear losing power and forever associating their party with his racial animus.
Now? What, he hasn’t been showing his “racial animus” all along? The guy who was saying Mexicans are rapists before he even stole the election?
Trump has left little doubt through his utterances the past few weeks that he sees himself not only as the Republican standard-bearer but as leader of a modern grievance movement animated by civic strife and marked by calls for “white power,” the phrase chanted by one of his supporters in a video the president shared last weekend on Twitter. He later deleted the video but did not disavow its message.
Come on. This is not a surprise to anyone. Remember birtherism? The Central Park Five? The Muslim ban before he even know where the White House kept the burger dispenser?
Over the years, some Republicans have struggled to navigate Trump’s race baiting and, at times, outright racism, while others have rallied behind him. Bursts of indignation and frustration come and go but have never resulted in a complete GOP break with the president.
No shit, because they like him and his racism a hell of a lot more than they don’t like it.
Trump’s repeated championing of monuments, memorials and military bases honoring Confederate leaders has run up against the tide of modernity and a weary electorate that polls show overwhelmingly support the Black Lives Matter movement — a slogan that Trump said would be “a symbol of hate” if painted on Fifth Avenue in New York.
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On Capitol Hill, some Republicans fret — mostly privately, to avoid his wrath — that Trump’s fixation on racial and other cultural issues leaves their party running against the currents of change. Coupled with the coronavirus pandemic and related economic crisis, these Republicans fear he is not only seriously impairing his reelection chances but also jeopardizing the GOP Senate majority and its strength in the House.
Well let’s hope so.
Americans, please do NOT FORGET that Steve Schmidt, Jennifer Rubin, Rick Wilson and other Lincoln Project members are not your friends. Just allies of convenience. They believe in most of Trump’s projects, and will try to shift Biden’s focus away from any major changes.
Best of luck
Mike
I haven’t forgotten they’re not our friends. It’s not game on in 2024, it’s game on in January 2021.
The modern Republican Party tries to bill itself as the party of Lincoln while maintaining themselves as the party of Strom Thurmond.. They built the party on racial animus when the Dixiecrats left the Democratic party over Civil Rights and joined the Republicans, who were more willing to pander to their racial nastiness in order to get votes and build a permanent Republican majority (gods help us all).
They have no business complaining about a racist president now.
The Lincoln Project people are ad guys and consultants. Nobody is proposing to name them to Biden’s Cabinet or something.
Trump a racist? I’m shocked, shocked I tell you! Well, not that shocked.
They’re just different sides, side by side…
Having an actual friend who’s a fucking TERF-baiter (haven’t invoked the nuclear option because it isn’t apparent that he’s been off threatening/harassing women) I think I might be able to navigate this one…
I am doubly shocked by the news that Trump is not just a misogynist, but a racist as well. So I am shocked, shocked! on both counts.
That leaves me shocked, shocked, shocked, and shocked again.