Dogwhistling to alt-right, Trump - cued by Tucker Carlson - tweets about South African farmers
Trump's tweet tonight has white supremacists and alt-right figures celebrating on Twitter.
He posted two versions of this, deleted the first one because he'd linked to a Mike Pompeo fan account, not to Pompeo:
Link to tweet
Judd Legum tweeted about the timeline here:
Link to tweet
10:28PM: Trump tweets that he has ordered Sec State Pompeo to investigate the South African government
I don't have time to post the many tweets about how this is pandering to the alt-right, but I recommend that DUers who want to understand how Trump is echoing alt-right propaganda here look at the Twitter accounts of
RightWingWatch's Jared Holt:
https://twitter.com/jaredlholt
and The Guardian's Jason Wilson:
https://twitter.com/jason_a_w
Those will give you the background on what Trump's tweeting now, as well as some of the immediate reaction online from white supremacists to Trump's tweet.
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And racists are all over this issue, stating that there is white genocide going on in South Africa, which means that fatso-in-chief's all over this too. What's Neville tRump want to happen? For Black South Africans to be executed who are given this land just like he wanted the Central Park Five executed, even though they were exonerated and proven innocent by DNA evidence? Racist-in-chief want to fight to bring Apartheid back? tReasonous-in-chief can't even bring himself to call the Tiki Torch marchers in THIS country racist. Nope, they're "good folks" even though they were chanting "Jews will not replace us." Yep, just your average run-of-the-mill "nice" people chanting a slogan like that in the night while carrying Tiki Torches.
No they're not sieg heiling, they're merely lifting their arms to dry their wet armpits in between yelling racist slogans and chants.
There is a serious danger rising here, and globally. Not good.
