Yep.
It can also be dressed up as “telling it like it is,” so that it almost becomes seen as a virtue.
If you were a little older, you would have seen the same effect when Reagan promoted “Morning in America” after the reputedly awful Carter years.
It appears to be axiomatic on the Right that when ever there is a D in the Whitehouse that the country needs to be “rescued” and brought back to greatness. With Obama there was the additional high dudgeon of him being, well, “not like us, donchaknow!”
Having recently called out McConnell as “Moscow Mitch”, I think it’s high time Pelosi took a cue from LBJ and accused Trump of being a “Pig-fucker”.
Democrats are so nice, I suspect they are secretly Canadians.
This is 100% correct.
We already have our answer. White supremacists won’t campaign on white supremacy alone, and they will occasionally temper the rhetoric to appear palatable, but the Trump presidency has openly campaigned on white supremacy since he came down the escalator in June of 2015.
I still don’t think this fits the OP’s criteria, though. Trump is the kind of racist who doesn’t really embrace the label, or is halfhearted about this stuff. He’s only a 50% type whereas **Leaper **is asking about 100% types.
The OP is positing someone is full-bore, proud of it, I-like-to-be-called racist racist. Trump is weak sauce compared to that.
Most people don’t want to believe they are fascists but they can be easily convinced that fascism is a legitimate alternative to democracy. Just don’t call it fascism - call it alternative democracy. Same is true of racism. People are very easily tricked to fall for the illusions and fears as characterized by authoritarians.
Especially the 5 million Obama-Trump voters, no?
Surely the downturn began earlier, when Republican paragon Richard M. Nixon—guilty of nothing more than being a lying criminal who got caught—resigned from the presidency rather than digging in his heels and telling the libs to suck it. May we never again return to such dark and shameful times.
“Openly”? He might make sheriff or town councilman, if the town was small enough.
I am pretty sure the SDMB and progressives in general have a different definition of “openly” than I do.
Regards,
Shodan
Yup, I missed Carter’s crisis of confidence, thankfully.
Steve King then.
Fair point; we do use it when we mean “obviously”. Does that make a difference?
And if you’re as old as I am, you can remember when Nixon rescued America from the clutches of Lyndon Johnson.
I feel the path for a white supremacist to the White House would be the racial realist route. Don’t come out and just say white people are better. Cherry pick some facts that lead to that conclusion and ignore any facts that refute your position.
Examples:
and
and many, many others.
Henceforth, this shall be my new nickname for Trump.
Interesting that you feel that these are examples of facts, however cherry-picked.
Regards,
Shodan
Well, you can’t get much more openly white supremacist than Republican congressional candidate Arthur J. Jones, who ran most recently as the only Republican candidate for Illinois’ 3rd congressional district.
For a guy like that to get over a quarter of the vote is concerning, though his overall lack of success suggests that his platform’s not that popular.
Ask the guy who stated them as facts.