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Ron Johnson, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, defended on Sunday Donald Trump's attacks on a group of minority freshmen lawmakers as something that would have been accepted in the 1960s.
Johnson is making reference to a tweet Trump sent this week telling people if they don't like America they are free to leave and go somewhere else.
'I would say in general the whole, 'America: love it or leave it' is not a new sentiment,' Johnson, who was born in 1955, told CNN's Dana Bash Sunday morning. 'You know, back in the '60s that wasn't considered racist.'
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Is Senator Ron Johnson aware Twitter didn't exist in the 60s?
https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson
Be sure to go visit his page and ask him.
sinkingfeeling
(51,470 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,107 posts)Trump didn't originally say "love it or leave it." He said they "should go back to where the corrupt countries they came from."
Maeve
(42,287 posts)Besides, the line being used now is "send her back" and that is even moreso racist.
Greybnk48
(10,171 posts)And didnt know his ass from a hole in the ground. Nothings changed.
Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)What he's saying is that people back in the sixties would say 'America: love it or leave it', and that it wasn't considered racist. I don't know if that's true or not, but it's really beside the point, because that's not what trump said at all.
However, I'm not seeing where someone would get the idea that the guy thought twitter was around back in the sixties.
ck4829
(35,084 posts)Trump and his cronies hold up the past as some sort of standard, well then, let's keep them to it.
Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)However, I don't think he's really just trying to say things should be like they were in the sixties. The phrase 'America: Love it, or leave it' isn't necessarily racist.
What he's doing is lying about what trump said......then, he's arguing that the made-up thing that he is claiming trump said wasn't racist back then, and shouldn't be now.