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Donald Trump Speaks For The GOP: Bigotry Can Win You The Presidency
Sinclair Lewis once said that when fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in the flag and bearing the cross. Well - it turns out that Sinclair Lewis was wrong about how it would get here. It hasn’t come wrapped in the flag and bearing the cross - it’s come wrapped in a terrible haircut and bearing all the arrogance of a reality TV star.
The Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, has already brought far-right racism into the mainstream with his attacks on Mexican immigrants. But now Trump has set his sights on Muslims - the new bogeyman for Republicans in the wake of the Paris attacks
America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, fills in for Thom Hartmann on RT’s The Big Picture to discuss how Donald Trump is leading the charge in American racism in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks. Joining Pap is Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins.
The Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, has already brought far-right racism into the mainstream with his attacks on Mexican immigrants. But now Trump has set his sights on Muslims - the new bogeyman for Republicans in the wake of the Paris attacks
America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, fills in for Thom Hartmann on RT’s The Big Picture to discuss how Donald Trump is leading the charge in American racism in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks. Joining Pap is Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins.
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of his comb over - wow!
Mother Jones
Donald Trump's Hatemongering Moves on to African Americans
More at the link above.
Donald Trump's Hatemongering Moves on to African Americans
Having already played the hate card against Mexicans and Muslims—and getting crackerjack results—Donald Trump has apparently decided to move on to African Americans. I don't know what the "Crime Statistics Bureau" in San Francisco is, and I don't think I want to know, but one of the most well-established facts about murder in the United States is that it's pretty racially segregated. Whites kill whites, blacks kill blacks, etc. But today Trump decided to tweet the CSB graphic on the right, for no readily apparent reason. And wouldn't you know it: it contains a wee racial error. It claims that most whites are killed by blacks, but in 2014, which is the latest full-year homicide data available from the FBI, 82 percent of whites were killed by other whites and only 15 percent were killed by blacks....
More at the link above.
