Donald Trump's truly vicious remarks targeting Hispanic immigrants
exposed wingnut racism that permeates the Republican base…
For many Americans the recent exposure of the racism
rampant in the population is not a revelation by any means. It is true
the brutal massacre by a Confederate sympathizer exposed the white
supremacy infecting great portions of the South, and the Republican
reaction to decent Americans demanding that the Confederacy’s symbol of
racism be removed reinforced the idea that Republican racial bigotry
plagues the entire nation. However, racism is not reserved for animus
toward African Americans and the support for Republican pretender
candidate Donald Trump’s truly vicious remarks targeting Hispanic
immigrants exposed conservative racism that permeates the Republican
base.
It is true that Donald Trump is an unqualified
pretender candidate and a filthy rich, vain, bigoted bloviate. But he
is very popular with the Republican base for a simple reason. He, more
than any Republican candidate for pretender, best represents the Republican Cabal’s
base because unlike the rest of the Republicans seeking the pretender
nomination, he is unafraid to speak for the Cabal and the typical
Republican voter. It is why in a recent CNN national poll Trump is in
second place among the Republican Cabal field, and second in recent polls from Iowa
and New Hampshire, both crucial early contests.
The Republican establishment might feign sweating
over Trump’s appeal to racists in the Republican base, but there is
little doubt the other “professional” candidates would love to parrot
the base’s views on everything from immigration to the Confederacy to
President Obama’s citizenship. However, with a general election looming
they can hardly say out loud what they really believe and it is why the Republican Cabal’s base sees Trump as “one of them.” It is a fact that Republicans
like Santorum, Cruz, Huckabee, Walker, Jindal, and Bush may not openly
endorse every crazy idea like Trump for fear of losing favor with
fundraisers and necessary endorsements, but they certainly agree with
every incendiary statement Trump and the base holds near and dear as
hardline wingnuts. Unlike the “professional” politicians, Trump
has no overwhelming need to form party alliances or “build a team of party professionals,” so he says precisely what he and the Republican base believes it means to be “real Americans.”(and one could not be more un-American spewing the garbage he spews)
There is more proof Trump is the ideal Republican in
a couple of recent surveys, and one particularly telling news story.
Republican voters hate Hispanic immigrants as a matter of course whether
they are documented, undocumented, or American citizens. Some
Republican pretender candidates did criticize Trump’s xenophobic and
bigoted remarks about Mexican immigrants, but their true sentiments were
revealed when every potential Republican candidate turned down an
invitation from the nation’s largest Latino advocacy group to attend its
annual convention next week.
The group, the National Council of La Raza invited
every presidential Democratic candidate, and Republican pretender , to attend their
convention, but no Republican is attending. For the record, former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Maryland Governor Martin
O’Malley will attend, and Senator Bernie Sanders adjusted his schedule
to attend. It is highly likely that the last thing any Republican
candidate wants to be branded with is any form of outreach to the
Hispanic community to conform to the Republican base’s bigotry toward
non-whites. In fact, although there has been tepid criticism of Trump’s
vile remarks about Hispanic immigrants, the group representing the
Republican base, wingnut media, has been either relatively silent
or blatantly praiseworthy and supportive.
Wingnut media is prone to lying profusely, but in the case of Trump’s bigotry, a fair majority of them were truthful in rallying
to his defense by claiming Trump was only saying out loud what
Republican professional politicians and the base knows needed to be
said. For example, Fox News’ hack Monica Crowley said Republican voters love
Donald Trump because “he’s a straight talker and he’s giving voice
to what a lot of voters believe about the state of the country right
now. And he’s fearlessly doing it.” According to Crowley, Trump is performing a great service for the rest of the candidates “if
they’re smart enough to follow his lead; he is not caving in to the
leftist intimidation tactics, and he is doing a lot of political
blocking for the other candidates by saying things that need to be said.”
Hack Sean Hannity also defended Trump and said, “We’ve
got a problem in this country. Floor to ceiling drugs confiscated by
people crossing our southern border. You want to talk about crime? Who’s
coming from Latin America and Mexico? Are they rich, successful
Mexicans, Nicaraguans, El Salvador residents? No!“ A Fox News
radio hack, Todd Starnes said “Trump has nothing to apologize for. He
was telling the truth, people crossing the border from one country into
another was called an invasion. They used to fight wars over stuff like
that. But now they just play politics.” Another wingnut, John
Hinderaker, wrote that “Donald Trump was right. At least he
understands why Americans are so angry; the Left’s effort to shut Trump
up should be a teachable moment.”
Washed-up rocker, draft dodger, pedophile, and
extremely popular National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent
thinks that “instead of being condemned and lampooned, Donald Trump
should be given the Medal of Freedom for speaking in such a bold,
honest, and straight-forward manner. I dare anybody to show me one word
from Trump that isn’t accurate. What sort of denial gagged liar denies
that our country is being invaded by drug runners, murderers and
rapists?”
While establishment Republicans will never admit it
openly, wingnut media not only speaks for the Cabal, it speaks for
the bigoted base that is not just bigoted against Latinos. The recent
shameful actions in the House where Republicans balked
at removing the racist Confederate battle flag from government
buildings and cemeteries exposed their racism Trump espouses. Boehner managed to table an amendment to allow the Confederate flag
to be displayed at federal cemeteries and sold in gift shops, but when
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi introduced a resolution instructing the
speaker to “remove any State flag containing any portion of the
Confederate battle flag from any area within the House wing of the
Capitol or any House office building,” California Majority Leader
Kevin McCarthy pushed to table Pelosi’s resolution and won the backing
of every racist Republican but one. Republicans do not have a problem
with Donald Trump’s racism and bigotry, they are just concerned that
their, and their base’s, true sentiments about non-white Americans is
finally being exposed nationally leading up to the 2016 presidential
election.
In
the aftermath of the Charleston racist killing, and while there was
national outrage over the murderer’s allegiance to the Confederate flag,
there were only tepid calls from Republicans to remove the flag from
South Carolina government buildings. The cries to remove the flag had to
reach deafening proportions before some Republicans could no longer
avoid offending their racist base and claimed it was a state issue. What
was not the least bit surprising was a recent Gallup poll
that revealed 78 percent of Republicans still viewed the racist flag as
a positive symbol. Racism is alive and well among Republican voters,
and Donald Trump’s vile bigotry epitomizes the sentiment that Republican
politicians certainly embrace; especially after spending the past six
years cultivating it for the benefit of their electoral base.
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