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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Oct 21, 2016, 09:29 AM Oct 2016

Former RNC Chair: Trump Has Spoken To America's 'Racist Underbelly'

Source: Talking Points Memo

By CAITLIN MACNEAL PublishedOCTOBER 21, 2016, 8:28 AM EDT

Michael Steele, former Republican National Committee chair and lieutenant governor of Maryland, told Buzzfeed News on Friday morning that he will not vote for Donald Trump, citing the Republican nominee's appeal to racists.

At a dinner for the magazine Mother Jones, Steele told Buzzfeed News that Trump has "captured that racist underbelly, that frustration, that angry underbelly of American life and gave voice to that."

“I will not be voting for Clinton,” he said. “I will not be voting for Trump either.”

Steele said that Trump does not represent the whole Republican party and that he was "damn near puking during the debates."

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Former RNC Chair: Trump Has Spoken To America's 'Racist Underbelly' (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2016 OP

Captain Louis Renault has spoken BeyondGeography Oct 2016 #1

He's shocked, I tell you awoke_in_2003 Oct 2016 #12

The RNC is the racist underbelly Achilleaze Oct 2016 #2

How long get the red out Oct 2016 #3

No, tRump certainly wasn't the first.... think of Reagan and his 'State's Rights' Bullshit groundloop Oct 2016 #6

Thank you for bringing this up! fountainofyouth Oct 2016 #9

Trump represents the Republican party. dalton99 Oct 2016 #4

Steele is late to the table with this observation Zambero Oct 2016 #5

America's racist underbelly . . Metro135 Oct 2016 #7

The 'underbelly' has shifted up to the face of the GOP. onehandle Oct 2016 #8

KICK! Cha Oct 2016 #10

TRUMP DOES REPRESENT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY Skittles Oct 2016 #11

He is the worst kind of hypocrite LiberalLovinLug Oct 2016 #13

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)

1. Captain Louis Renault has spoken

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 09:31 AM

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awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)

12. He's shocked, I tell you

Reply to BeyondGeography (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 01:42 PM

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Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

2. The RNC is the racist underbelly

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 09:42 AM

Oct 2016

D'oh.

get the red out

(13,466 posts)

3. How long

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 09:51 AM

Oct 2016

And how long has the Republican Party lived off this underbelly now? How many times have hate radio hosts said the same things Trump repeats with Republicans remaining silent? They created this mess, Trump just rode the wave of what the GOP has nurtured for a very long time. But these "good" Republicans are so "shocked". I guess this fakery is the only act they can come up with to try to make the party's shit smell dissipate. But Trump wasn't the first turd in their house.

groundloop

(11,519 posts)

6. No, tRump certainly wasn't the first.... think of Reagan and his 'State's Rights' Bullshit

Reply to get the red out (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 09:59 AM

Oct 2016

He coyly chose to give his 'State's Rights' speech at Philadelphia, MS where Civil Rights workers (who were there to register voters) were murdered in 1964. That racist bastard knew what he was doing, playing to the racist underbelly of America.

fountainofyouth

(409 posts)

9. Thank you for bringing this up!

Reply to groundloop (Reply #6)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 10:16 AM

Oct 2016

The Philadelphia speech was textbook Southern Strategy! Makes my blood boil to think that helped Reagan win the 1980 election.

1980 was the only election in which my dad didn't vote for the Democrat. Voted John Anderson instead. Says he regrets it now!

dalton99

(781 posts)

4. Trump represents the Republican party.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 09:52 AM

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Zambero

(8,964 posts)

5. Steele is late to the table with this observation

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 09:55 AM

Oct 2016

For months his mantra has been "Trump needs to so this, Trump needs to do that..." while being oblivious to the hateful and divisive rhetoric from his party's candidate. Steele is now demonstrating that he has a very keen sense of the obvious.

Metro135

(359 posts)

7. America's racist underbelly . .

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 10:02 AM

Oct 2016

is your BASE, Mr. Steele.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

8. The 'underbelly' has shifted up to the face of the GOP.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 10:06 AM

Oct 2016

The party of Lincoln is no more.

Cha

(297,270 posts)

10. KICK!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 11:02 AM

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Skittles

(153,164 posts)

11. TRUMP DOES REPRESENT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 01:33 PM

Oct 2016

YOU REPUKE FREAKS HAVE BEEN DOG WHISTLING YOUR RACISM FOR DECADES......TRUMP MERELY SKIPS THE WHISTLING

LiberalLovinLug

(14,174 posts)

13. He is the worst kind of hypocrite

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 01:52 PM

Oct 2016

He was more than eager to grab the spotlight and be the GOPs first black RNC chair, and be used that way as their token AA face, and for years be the apologist for the GOP blocking social policies that would have helped the AA community.

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