Is Donald Trump embracing the Alt-right?
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Alt-Right Rules Trump;
Black Outreach A Sham!
Donald Trump claims he is sincere in his outreach to African-Americans, Mexicans, and other minority voters. However, several prominent Democrats are crying foul, saying Trump is so closely linked to the Alt-right that his alleged minority outreach is an outright sham!
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In case you’re unfamiliar with the term, “Alt-right” relates to the “alternate right,” which is the bigoted/racist fringe wing of the GOP that’s even further to the right than most conservatives. For months, Donald Trump has stirred up Alt-right bias against Mexicans, Muslims, African-Americans and more, and now, Hillary Clinton is among those who says enough is enough!
Democrats have been waiting for Hillary Clinton to take off the gloves and engage in a street-fight with Donald Trump. Last Thursday, they got their wish as Hillary attacked “The Donald” for his divisive rhetoric and for being the poster boy for the Alt-right.
“From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia,” she said to a crowd at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. “He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party. His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous.”
Hillary went on to describe Donald Trump as a candidate “with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of the supermarket tabloids and the far, dark reaches of the internet.” She then reminded voters how Trump launched his campaign by suggesting that undocumented immigrants from Mexico were rapists and criminals. She also seized on Trump’s hiring of Steve Bannon, the former chairman of the “Alt-right” leaning Breitbart News, as his campaign’s chief executive.
Mrs. Clinton noted that Trump has brought a hate movement into the mainstream; has embraced admirers who are members of the Ku Klux Klan; was slow to disavow praise from former KKK leader David Duke during the Republican primaries; has retweeted comments from white supremacists online; and that he is in bed with white nationalists, racists, misogynists, and anti-Semites — which is the traditional audience of a news site such as Breitbart.
“Through it all, he has continued pushing discredited conspiracy theories with racist undertones,” she said.
Her words came in tandem with a New York Times article describing the racist practices Donald Trump learned from his real estate father, Fred Trump, who regularly refused to rent apartments to non-whites.
‘Take the application and put it in a drawer and leave it there,’” real estate agent Stanley Leibowitz recalled the senior Trump frequently telling him whenever a black person applied for a vacancy.
This racist mentality was ingrained into Donald Trump from a very early age. Now, it has found its way into his run for the presidency and has encouraged an island of misfit bigots to rally behind him.
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Despite Trump appearing to adopt a more inclusive tone through a recently staged minority outreach plan, not everyone is convinced his motives are genuine.
NY Times Op-Ed columnist Charles Blow is calling Trump’s alleged outreach to black voters “The most insidious kind of bigotry.”
“It is the kind of bigotry that says I will knock you down while I pretend to pick you up,” Blow said in a diatribe on CNN. “It says that I’m not talking to you, I’m talking to the guy behind you or over your shoulder. It’s the kind of bigotry that says I’m urinating on you and telling you to dance in the rain. This is the most horrible kind of bigotry. And the fact that people keep asking the same question, particularly to black commentators like me, is he reaching out to black people — he is not reaching out to black people.”
Blow continued explaining his belief that Trump’s “minority outreach” is actually directed toward moderate white voters who are uncomfortable with his campaign’s racist tone.
“It is the moderate ones who say, ‘I don’t want to be the woman, man who votes for the racist guy. And if this guy can now change his opinion, I do want to be a conservative, but I don’t want to be a conservative who votes for the racist guy. And now he’s different.’ Well, actually, he’s not different,” Blow continued. “He’s not talking to us. He’s pretending to talk to us as he talks to you. And this is an insult to all people of color, both black, Hispanic, and otherwise because he is using us as pawns to get to you. You do not get an out. Know the guy was a bigot yesterday. He’s a bigot today. He will be a bigot tomorrow, and if you vote for him, you’re voting for a bigot. That’s it.”
Ouch!
In defense of his motives, Trump claimed he doesn’t want white supremacists to vote for him, saying “This is not about hate, this is about love. We love our country; we want our country to come back; we want our country to be strong again.”
He then attempted to reject the notion that he has embraced the Alt-right movement.
“Nobody even knows what that is,” Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “There is no alt right or left.”
However, when Cooper noted that Trump’s new campaign chief executive Steve Bannon has frequently used the term “alt-right,” Trump professed ignorance.
“I don’t know what Steve said,” Trump claimed, before quickly changing the subject and pivoting back to Hillary Clinton and her email controversies.
“She’s a third-rate politician,” he barked. “She is all talk, no action. … She should be ashamed of herself.”
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Despite Trump appearing to adopt a more inclusive tone through a recently staged minority outreach plan, not everyone is convinced his motives are genuine. […] HAH. That's an understatement DJ…lol .And Charles Blow is absolutely right on the money. Trump's so-called Black outreach is a cynical, deceptive and quite racist gimmick. I think most Blacks figured it out from jump. But also- the other day I watched an interview of some former Trump supporters who expressed their deep regret for having ever voted for that disingenuous and dangerous fool during the GOP primaries. They made it very clear, they're done with Trump's endless BS and won't be voting for him in the general election. Period. Which (I think) points out an important distinction between actual Conservatives vs Alt-right extremists (White Supremacists) DJ wrote: ….the term, “Alt-right” relates to the “alternate right,” which is the bigoted/racist fringe wing of the GOP… Read more »