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https://www.politicususa.com/2019/08/02/mark-sanford-trump-racism.htmlPosted on Fri, Aug 2nd, 2019 by Jason Easley
Mark Sanford Explains How Trumps Racism Is Killing The GOP
Former Rep. Mark Sanford said that Trumps rhetoric is turning the Republican Party into the party of white men and making it impossible for the GOP to grow.
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Sanford said on MSNBC, It needs to branch out. To state the obvious, some of the presidents rhetoric is destructive. Its harmful not only in selling a message but building a party. If we dwindle to being a party of white men we have a real problem given the trendlines within our country.
A lot of focus gets placed on the number of people who are leaving the Republican Party as a representation of the damage that Trump is doing, but there is a flip side to that coin, and thats the people who wont consider becoming Republicans because of Trump.
Republican spent decades prior to the tea party movement reaching out to Hispanic and Latino voters. Trump has turned those potential voters into targets for his racism. Republicans owed George W. Bushs reelection to suburban white women. Under Trump, those women are resisting the Republican Party.
It is a bit of a chicken and egg argument. Is Trump a symptom or the disease that is killing the Republican Party? He could possibly be both. Racism and extremism put Trump into office, but those beliefs as policy are killing the Republican Party.
If the Republican Party become the white man party, it will go extinct. Trump is both the last gasp howl of white male political privilege and the big bang event the could wipe Republicans off of the political landscape.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And Sanford's "chicken and egg argument" is particularly risible coming the same week as the release of the Nixon tape from 1971 where Ronald Reagan calls UN delegates from Africa "monkeys" who haven't yet gotten used to wearing shoes (you know, like civilized white people). That racism has been there your whole life, Mark. Pretending to be surprised by it now only makes you look more foolish and cowardly.
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(53,815 posts)Ilsa
(61,696 posts)TlalocW
(15,388 posts)Trump is just the first republican president who is unable to grasp subtlety when it comes to racism. Trump has no dog-whistle mode. It's an airhorn.
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pecosbob
(7,542 posts)It didn't start with Trump, and it didn't start with the Tea Party. You have all been fully complicit since Saint Ronnie Raygun decided it was more important to get your way than to follow the rules or to follow the law. You all have been complicit in robbing the working class and disenfranchising tens of millions of Americans. Go to Hell and take all the other enablers, normalizers and prostitutes for the one percent with you.
JHB
(37,161 posts)Ring any bells? You forget this guy and his radio buddy? Rump something?
He encouraged you guys to treat Democrats as "the enemy of normal Americans."
You spent your entire career swimming in the pipeline that lead to Trump. You. Built. This.