Yes. This so needed to be said. David Duke, Jared Taylor, Steve Bannon and all these other white nationalists will be this cycle’s Willie Hortons (except in this case, there really IS guilt by association).
The only part that seems counter-productive is to say these people would be “running the country.” It’s scary enough that the white supremacists have a presidential candidate who won’t disavow them, but many viewers may see “running the country” as just campaign hyperbole.
Hey, imagine that! Truth in advertising!
Trumps knows.
He doesn’t realize what these people could do if he betrays them…
Trumpnoramuses in white robes
I’m glad this came out on the heels of Trump calling Clinton a bigot at one of his rallies last night. It really is pathetic what the GOP will say to deflect reality. I saw the Ex-governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, on a cable news channel saying that the left needs to stop calling republicans racist. They want to be able to spew their hatred unchecked. Shameless, racist, hateful assholes. I have no issue painting with broad strokes on this topic. Well done, Hillary campaign.
The ad comes as Clinton prepares to give a speech Thursday in Reno, Nevada condemning Trump for mainstreaming the racist, anti-immigrant views held by the sprawling online community known as the “alt-right.”
So now that it’s mainstream and no longer just sprawling online, we can be blunt and just call it the right, correct?
This is grossly unfair to Donald Trumpf. He doesn’t really believe in white supremacy. He’s only using those people.
Maybe.
The folks that run the campaigns usually end up in the administration, so it isn’t hyperbole.
Another first-class job from Hillary’s team.
Good work, people, keep it up!
Rush Limbaugh: Of course. That is the goal.
Laura Ingraham: You better believe it:
Campaign hyperbole? Steve Bannon, the “CEO” of the Trump campaign, is a white nationalist leader. Do you think it’s hyperbole to suppose that he and his associates might have a role in the Trump administration?
The folks that run the campaigns usually end up in the administration, so it isn’t hyperbole.
I didn’t say it was hyperbole. I said it could be perceived by some viewers as hyperbole. Yes, Bannon is CEO of the campaign. The KKK and David Duke are not. The ad clearly suggests “these people” would be “running the country.” Some will see that as a stretch.
Super! This is the kind of messaging that needs to be shoved up the Republican Party’s ass every day.
The real estate mogul has been pressed to disavow support from white nationalist backers in multiple interviews, and has done so. His family and allies have also told the press that he harbors no racist views.
ummm no he hasn’t.
While he has said that he would disavow such calls, his vocal tones suggested that those types of tactics are just part of politics. Plus while he was ‘disavowing’ those advocates, he was again embracing that ‘boogieman’ agenda that got folks like Taylor and Duke on board in the first place.
While I applaud Christie for standing up to those who sought to demonize a Muslim judge in NJ; as he was defending Trump against those Curiel charges, his friend was stating that a Muslim judge was likely to be bias against him too.
These debates can’t come quick enough…
I guarantee this kind of nitpicking does not occur on the other side of our not-so-grand political canyon.
Concern troll much?
I will concede to you that a perhaps more effective phrasing would be something to the effect of “their views may become the official views of the US government”.
That twitter feed is unsettling. Not one Hillary supporter seems to know that Byrd denounced the KKK, that Seddique Mateen is not a terrorist, that there’s no evidence of Clinton accepting donations from the KKK…