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kpete

(71,986 posts) Wed Aug 24, 2016, 08:38 AM Aug 2016

Trump has discovered that running as open racist in national campaign in 2016 can be severe problem

Trump has discovered that running as an open racist in a national campaign in 2016 can be a severe problem.

Dazed and Confused

It now seems that the next several days of the campaign cycle will be about whether anyone can figure out what Donald Trump's immigration policy is. Mass expulsions, compulsory taco salads, expelling the bad people, letting the models stay, Obama's awesome after all. Trump's new mantra is that "we will follow the law," which - let's not be ungenerous - is a good place to start but of course tells us nothing. This isn't a pivot. It's an effort to sow confusion. Because there's no tenable place for Trump to be on this issue.

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There's the key: a plan to convince white women that Trump's not racist. Give him credit: a year-plus into the campaign Trump has discovered that running as an open racist in a national campaign in 2016 can be a severe problem. But even the charge of cynicism gives the Trumpers too much credit. That is a major part of what this is about. But a cynical plan assumes there's a plan. But there isn't one. Remember Trump's Razor. The stupidest scenario that can be reconciled with the available facts. This is a campaign on its third leadership team, with the latest a two headed monster made up of a white nationalist crank and a GOP pollster who was until recently a proponent of getting the GOP behind immigration reform. They're far behind with eleven weeks to go before the election trying to figure out some way to stop losing. There's a well-known word for campaigns that try to completely upend their entire message and policy menu with 80 days to go before an election. They're called "losing campaigns."

Step back for a moment from the Trumpite word salad and you'll realize all of this is true.

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Trump has discovered that running as open racist in national campaign in 2016 can be severe problem (Original Post) kpete Aug 2016 OP

Still super racists campaign just trying to relieve white voters of guilt so they can in " good Person 2713 Aug 2016 #1

Add This to the list: "In 1989, Trump took out an ad condemning five black & Hispanic teenage boys" misterhighwasted Aug 2016 #2

Person 2713

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1. Still super racists campaign just trying to relieve white voters of guilt so they can in " good

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 08:49 AM

Aug 2016

conscience " vote for him knowing he tried to reach out, allegedly in thier minds . The white church ladies can sigh and say it's so sad they didn't want to help make America great, they had nothing to lose etc.
In some ways sicker than the in your face Trump mode

misterhighwasted

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2. Add This to the list: "In 1989, Trump took out an ad condemning five black & Hispanic teenage boys"

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 09:28 AM

Aug 2016

Jamil Smith ✔ @JamilSmith
In 1989, Trump took out an ad condemning five black and Hispanic teenage boys. Me, on what that should tell us. http://on.mtv.com/2bKMXgS

THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE AD TOLD US WHO DONALD TRUMP REALLY IS.
HOW HIS 1989 CONDEMNATION OF FIVE INNOCENT TEENS RESONATES TODAY

On May 1, 1989, Donald Trump published an ad in the New York Daily News calling for the state to kill five schoolchildren. None of the “Central Park Five” were older than 16.
All of them were black or Latino. Under police coercion, they’d confessed to the brutal rape and assault of Trisha Meili, an investment banker who had been jogging in Central Park. Though they were convicted, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise were not guilty of the crime. Twelve years later, a serial rapist named Matias Reyes fessed up to being the sole attacker, and his DNA was a match to what was found at the scene.

But the possibility of the Central Park Five’s innocence, it seems, did not occur to Trump when he paid to condemn them in print. He concluded with a clarion call to anger and fear: “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!”

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He has learned nothing from misjudging the Central Park Five. After New York City reached a $41 million settlement in 2014 with the five wrongly convicted men — they were now men, after all — Trump published an op-ed full of disgust, again in the Daily News. He wrote that it was “ridiculous” that the city offered a settlement, and that “settling doesn’t mean innocence.” Even after their exoneration, either Trump still believed they were guilty or he couldn’t take being so wrong.

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