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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Wed Oct 24, 2018, 07:13 AM Oct 2018

Trump Shoves Nationalist Needle Into His Followers' Veins - by Rick Wilson

While the 70-year-old Queens racist with authoritarian statist leanings has long clad them in nationalist rhetoric, Monday was the first time the word escaped his blubbery lips.

Rick Wilson
10.24.18 1:05 AM ET

By “nationalism” I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled “good” or “bad.”—George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism (1945)

On Monday night, Donald Trump shoved the nationalist needle into the veins of millions of his followers, and slammed the plunger home. He finally said what we’ve known all along: He’s a nationalist.

He sent a signal to his alt-right allies that it’s time to rally to his side once again, just ahead of the midterm elections. It was one more knife into the moldering corpse of the GOP, which with every Trump rally has looked more and more like some clapped-out third-world claque of the Glorious Leader’s sycophants, and less like a modern political institution.

By the time the rally was over, David Duke was praising Donald Trump, delighted to hear the sound of a whistle that deafened every dog within a thousand miles. For the Tiki-Torch-and-Polo-Shirt Mafia, it was like finally having sex with a live, uncompensated human female.

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Trump Shoves Nationalist Needle Into His Followers' Veins - by Rick Wilson (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2018 OP

The problem is the cult believes their Lord and Savior Tiny. Vinca Oct 2018 #1

Racist, Bigotry, Nationalists, all of these words are disgusting and pathetic and ... SWBTATTReg Oct 2018 #2

HE's a Nazi white supremacist duforsure Oct 2018 #3

Sadly, the GOP is no "moldering corpse", as long as Trump's spooky3 Oct 2018 #4

Well, exactly. I've been waiting for 20 years for the 'death' of the GOP, but their craziness is Nay Oct 2018 #5

I'm surprised they haven't found a spot for David Duke somewhere in this administration anarch Oct 2018 #6

K&R 2naSalit Oct 2018 #7

Vinca

(50,278 posts)

1. The problem is the cult believes their Lord and Savior Tiny.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Oct 24, 2018, 07:19 AM

Oct 2018

If he says "nationalist" means patriotism, they buy it as fast as they signed up for Trump Steaks and Trump University.

SWBTATTReg

(22,137 posts)

2. Racist, Bigotry, Nationalists, all of these words are disgusting and pathetic and ...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Oct 24, 2018, 07:19 AM

Oct 2018

now we need to take the gloves off and kick these disgusting examples of human beings to the curb once and for all. Disgusting.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

3. HE's a Nazi white supremacist

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Oct 24, 2018, 07:26 AM

Oct 2018

Now bragging that its good to be a racist, and to isolate us from the world openly . What are people thinking voting for anyone who is supporting this type of hatred and fear mongers that lie to them over and over again with their propaganda, and are promoting war and unrest and chaos, and the transfer of huge amounts of wealth over to the wealthiest in this country now. No one like this deserves to be in OUR government, period. Vote them out of office or it'll get a lot worse.