Disgusting that Republicans are going in this direction. What they are willing to give up to stay in power. Talk about sheep to the slaughter.

the prior generations had the direct memories of what happened in Germany.
The current ones though lack those memories thus they feel no shame over publicly embracing things like bigotry, racism and intolerance.

They are literally dying off... and not soon enough

polls are bs, are used for propaganda. So Trump's approval % is going up with Republicans because the number of Republicans supporting him has dropped. So Trump was 70% favorable with 100 million Republicans but now he is 75% favorable with 70 million Republicans.

Trump's overall approval rating is 35 f*cking percent, that's where it has been and that's where it will stay.

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Whether it's members of a private country club or someone who drives a tractor in Nebraska, the Republicans of today are racist. It unites them. White people only. But they don't want to be called out on it. Trump has given them permission to be unashamedly racist. He'll take the heat and the blame. They can just claim they are being loyal Americans, not racists.

and before that, the Civil Rights movement. This is the same segment of Americans who told my generation, "get a haircut" and "love it or leave it". It'a 1/3 of the US no matter what.

What "Democrats" supported him in the first place?

so the spin made sense.

Trump's spokeswoman Kellyanne expressed it all in terms their base would understand and appreciate concerning Trump's racist tweets.

She said the four Congresswomen represent a "dark underbelly" in this country.

"dark"

to get a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, he had to throw his base some red meat.

This is what the Republican Party is all about, now it's out there for everyone to see. Just disgusting.

Is there honestly a single person here surprised by this?

His supporters are reprehensible scum like him.

The more he alienates independents and Reagan Democrats, the lower his odds get.

When someone shows you exactly who they are you should believe them.

Argh, fuck Steve Bannon and fuck Sebastain Gorka.

The GOP is in with Donnie to the death... There isn't going to be any magical moment when the rank-and-file GOP "gets it" and decides to make a stand with us for truth, sanity, competence and rational thought. As long as they get their fucking legislation rubber stamped, legal protections revoked, federal services operating with skeleton staffs and slashed budges and as long as they get their nazi-lite judges appointed, the end justifies the means.... Donnie might as well start calling himself Reverend Jim Jones...


Denouncing racism is literally on the first page of the "Basic Humanity" test and even that is beyond Republicans since loyalty to party ideology supersedes all other concerns or emotions...


I have to admit I don't know where we go from here as a nation, nor where I go from here as a citizen... The Overton Window has shifted so far to the right it's off the margins...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/15/republican-response-to-trumps-bigoted-tweets-reveals-partys-ingrained-racism

"Trump’s bigoted and false tweets telling four congresswomen of colour to “go back” to the countries they came from – three were born in the US – rather than “loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States” how to govern said as much as about the Republican party as it did his own nativist instincts.

While Democrats piled in to defend Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and introduced a House resolution, Trump’s own party was almost entirely silent."

For Kurt Bardella, a commentator and former GOP congressional aide, it’s fairly simple. They share Trump’s views.
“Republicans agree with the president’s racist tweets,” he said. “At this point, it’s the only explanation. It’s a pattern of behaviour that the president engages in overtly racist rhetoric.”