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TexasTowelie

(112,217 posts) Sat Aug 19, 2017, 09:47 PM Aug 2017

Republicans have courted racists for years. Why are they cringing now?

By Leonard Pitts, Jr.

It is important to look beyond the riot.

Yes, last week’s violent demonstration by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, culminating in the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, made for a carnival of obscenity as sickening as it was riveting. But the thing is, it did not spring from nowhere.

And while your first instinct — unlike the moral imbecile in the White House — is condemnation, that’s the easy part. What you have to remember is that this is said to have been the largest public gathering of white supremacists in many years. There is, it seems, an unmistakable new energy on the extreme right.

So you might want to ask yourself: Why?

It’s easy to blame the aforementioned moral imbecile, but truth is, he didn’t create this energy. It created him.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article168097357.html

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Republicans have courted racists for years. Why are they cringing now? (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2017 OP

Yea but it's been a LOOONG time since a President played the apologist for neo-Nazis DemocraticSocialist8 Aug 2017 #1

They are afraid of being revealed. n/t jrthin Aug 2017 #2

I think because of who was involved at the rally. Initech Aug 2017 #3

They are afraid that it will cost them $$ and votes, in that order. CentralMass Aug 2017 #4

And money gratuitous Aug 2017 #5

Because their dirty little secret is now out in the open Generic Brad Aug 2017 #6

I checked faux's site. No mention of Boston. CentralMass Aug 2017 #7

Why? Because they think they're supposed to have plausible deniability... JHB Aug 2017 #8

It has been my experience that the majority of redumbliCONs are racists. democratisphere Aug 2017 #9

Because now it's looking more and more like they'll have to answer for it. Iggo Aug 2017 #10

They were happy when the bigots provided the margin of victory unblock Aug 2017 #11

DemocraticSocialist8

(396 posts)

1. Yea but it's been a LOOONG time since a President played the apologist for neo-Nazis

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:02 PM

Aug 2017

Matter of fact, I don't know that ANY President has apologized for neo-Nazis. The KKK definitely...look at Woodrow Wilson's career. Mr. Birth of a Nation. But neo-Nazis! Nah, idk that that's ever happened. Republicans like to hide their racism, Trump is exposing the entire party.

jrthin

(4,836 posts)

2. They are afraid of being revealed. n/t

Reply to DemocraticSocialist8 (Reply #1)

Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:03 PM

Aug 2017

Initech

(100,079 posts)

3. I think because of who was involved at the rally.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:09 PM

Aug 2017

It wasn't older people who scream at Fox News 24/7, it was young males under 25 years old! The fact that young people have embraced Hitler is an absolutely terrifying sign of things to come.

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)

4. They are afraid that it will cost them $$ and votes, in that order.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:11 PM

Aug 2017

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

5. And money

Reply to CentralMass (Reply #4)

Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:14 PM

Aug 2017

This is going to get in the way of cutting taxes on the wealthy. So dreary to have to explain the party's affinity for Nazis when what they really want to be doing is shoveling the Treasury into the overstuffed pockets of the overrich.

Generic Brad

(14,275 posts)

6. Because their dirty little secret is now out in the open

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:14 PM

Aug 2017

Their young ones had they coming out party and it did not go as planned.

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)

7. I checked faux's site. No mention of Boston.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:30 PM

Aug 2017

JHB

(37,160 posts)

8. Why? Because they think they're supposed to have plausible deniability...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:51 PM

Aug 2017

...and open Nazis and Klansmen kinda sink the deniability part.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)

9. It has been my experience that the majority of redumbliCONs are racists.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:58 PM

Aug 2017

I don't see many of them cringing.

Iggo

(47,558 posts)

10. Because now it's looking more and more like they'll have to answer for it.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:59 PM

Aug 2017

And they have no answers other than, "I was greedy for money and power".

unblock

(52,243 posts)

11. They were happy when the bigots provided the margin of victory

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Aug 19, 2017, 11:29 PM

Aug 2017

in exchange for some coded messages as long as they took a back seat to corporate interests like tax cuts and deregulation.

Finally they realize, too late, that when you dance with the devil, eventually the devil calls the tune.

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