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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 09:38 AM Aug 2018

Ex-GOP Rep After Attending Trump Rally: 'The Most Homogeneous Environment I've Been in in Decades'

Ex-GOP Rep After Attending Trump Rally: ‘The Most Homogeneous Environment I’ve Been in in Decades’

by Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Jul 31st, 2018, 11:57 pm

On Tuesday night, former Florida congressman and now-MSNBC commentator David Jolly shared his experience attending the Trump rally in Tampa.

The #NeverTrump Republican began by slamming the “verbal assaults” to the press, specifically referring to the heckling CNN reporter Jim Acosta faced earlier in the evening and noting the excitement of the crowd when President Donald Trump used what he described was “anti-immigration rhetoric” and the revival of the “Lock Her Up” chants aimed at Hillary Clinton.

“What was most remarkable to me though, and probably the thing that I will never forget and I am wrestling with tonight is how homogeneous the crowd was,” Jolly told Brian Williams. “And we can decide whether or not we want to assign culpability to the president for cultivating a constituency that tonight was 99% caucasian, working class, or is that a broader national conversation we need to have. But I’ll be honest with you. And I gut check myself. I asked friends and I asked other folks in the media, look around. How many African Americans, how many black Americans do we see tonight? And you could count them on one finger. And some of them were specifically positioned for camera shots.”

Jolly declared that this was a “white working class audience” and gave Trump credit since they “felt he was speaking for them, not just to them.”

“Look, the Tampa Bay community is a very diverse community. I represented a very diverse community,” Jolly continued. “I walked into a rally tonight that was probably the most homogeneous environment I’ve been in in decades.”

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Ex-GOP Rep After Attending Trump Rally: 'The Most Homogeneous Environment I've Been in in Decades' (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2018 OP
That's not white working class. I'm white working class. That's white trash. Squinch Aug 2018 #1
exactly bdamomma Aug 2018 #2
Exactly this!! Docreed2003 Aug 2018 #8
LOL about this part Ezior Aug 2018 #3
And yet, there were at least half a dozen POC behind Trump on screen... Wounded Bear Aug 2018 #4
They may have been paid to attend the rally. LonePirate Aug 2018 #6
Would not surprise me at all... Wounded Bear Aug 2018 #7
If rallies keep going like the one last night, they will need the money. Blue_true Aug 2018 #9
+1. Very strong possibility - or they're delusional/deranged like the crazy black guy dalton99a Aug 2018 #12
They're cult members. Literally. The "Blacks for Trump" guy is the leader of a cult. Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2018 #14
Yeah, I know... Wounded Bear Aug 2018 #15
Homogeneous? DemoTex Aug 2018 #5
more like a white supremacist rally spanone Aug 2018 #10
It is a white trash rally dalton99a Aug 2018 #11
Exact same can be said of a Klan rally. Solly Mack Aug 2018 #13
Where is mention of Hispanics of any color? Hortensis Aug 2018 #16
Exactly what policy has he enacted that helps white working class? Thrill Aug 2018 #17
I take exception one part of his charaterization Cosmocat Aug 2018 #18

Squinch

(50,956 posts)
1. That's not white working class. I'm white working class. That's white trash.
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 09:42 AM
Aug 2018

I wish people would learn the difference.

Ezior

(505 posts)
3. LOL about this part
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 09:47 AM
Aug 2018
How many African Americans, how many black Americans do we see tonight? And you could count them on one finger. And some of them were specifically positioned for camera shots.


So there was exactly one African American, and "some of them" were positioned for camera shots.
It's a nice way to put it.

Clearly something is wrong with the "white trash" community.

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)
4. And yet, there were at least half a dozen POC behind Trump on screen...
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 09:47 AM
Aug 2018

They need to start telling Trump to fuck off and start panning the crowd.

LonePirate

(13,426 posts)
6. They may have been paid to attend the rally.
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 09:53 AM
Aug 2018

I have no certainty that is why they were there but it is within the realm of possibility.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
9. If rallies keep going like the one last night, they will need the money.
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 10:30 AM
Aug 2018

To pay their hospital bill. I watched one of the videos from last night, there was genuine hatred in that hall. Soon enough, that hatred will be immediately turned on a nonwhite face.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,185 posts)
14. They're cult members. Literally. The "Blacks for Trump" guy is the leader of a cult.
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 10:37 AM
Aug 2018

Michael Symonette. Look him up. He actually was charged with murder at one point.

His group has absolutely outlandish beliefs, like attacking Cherokee Indians for whatever reason and claiming that Oprah is literally the devil.

I remember him protesting outside a Hillary speech I attended and he was going off on how Hillary was a "Rothschild". So, yeah......

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)
15. Yeah, I know...
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 10:38 AM
Aug 2018

Trump always has a few black folks seated behind him so the camera can pick up how "diverse" his crowds are.

As I said above, the media needs to pan the crowd more.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
16. Where is mention of Hispanics of any color?
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 10:58 AM
Aug 2018

I realize they don't vote their numbers, and that a fair number are white and thus hard to pick out, but if this journalist is going to talk about homogeneity he should have looked more carefully.

Unfortunately, other observers and pollsters are reporting adherence to this administration among conservative Hispanics in spite of everything. Unfortunately, the comments I've read have not broken attitudes down between white and non-white Hispanic citizens. The people persecuted by Trump, torn apart, jailed as criminals, with children put in cages, are of course predominantly indigenous Americans. One would think even trumpsters of that heritage would take it personally.

According to the 2010 Census, the racial and ethnic breakdown of Tampa was: White: 62.9% (non-Hispanic white: 46.3%) Black or African American: 26.2% Hispanic or Latino of any race: 23.1%


Thrill

(19,178 posts)
17. Exactly what policy has he enacted that helps white working class?
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 11:32 AM
Aug 2018

lol. These people are fools. The guy doesn’t give two shits about them

Cosmocat

(14,566 posts)
18. I take exception one part of his charaterization
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 12:00 PM
Aug 2018

this romantic notion that is put forward by "working class."

I suspect there was both a healthy does of people who lean HARD on the government for cash assitance and or medical care, as well as people who are of the means that would not qualify them as "working class."

Just giving the freak show too much credit to make one of the descriptors being "working class," assigns too much of an affirmative nature to them.

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