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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf only someone had warned us.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton today disparaged her Republican rival as a tool of the racist, radical right, a man who foments paranoia and prejudice and ushers hate groups into the mainstream.
Donald Trump is a man with a long history of racial discrimination, Clinton said during a Thursday rally in the flag-festooned student center at Truckee Meadows Community College. He is a man who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet.
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This is not conservatism as we have known it, she continued. This is not Republicanism as we have known it. These are racist ideas, race-baiting ideas, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-women, all key tenets making up the emerging racist ideology known as the alt-right.
The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump campaign represents a landmark achievement for the alt-right, Clinton declared. A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican party. All of this adds up to something weve never seen before.
Of course, theres always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment, she continued. But its never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/25/hillary-clinton-alt-right-racism-speech-donald-trump-nevada
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If only someone had warned us. (Original Post)
kpete
Jul 2019
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)1. Can we call it fascism now...
malaise
(269,157 posts)2. So glad to see her speaking out with regularity
Nail the scumbag Hillary
House of Roberts
(5,182 posts)3. The date on the article is Aug. 25, 2016
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malaise
(269,157 posts)5. Didn't click the link
Still - she is speaking out more these days. Would love her to repeat these words.
I should have picked up on the Democratic party nominee
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House of Roberts
(5,182 posts)6. Yep. There's a yellow banner above the title.
'This article is more than 2 years old'
CatMor
(6,212 posts)4. She had trump figured out all the way ..
if only more people had listened to what she had to say, including the media, we wouldnt be in this mess right now.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,790 posts)7. She tried to warn us, but no one would listen.....
There will be that 35% to 40% who will follow Trump no matter what.
It is the other 60% plus the Republicans must be concerned about. There is no getting those voters back if Trump continues down this dangerous path. Someone is going to get killed once again and it WILL be because of Trump and the Republican SILENCE.