Robert Reich: Evidence that GOP is part of white Christian authoritarian nationalism

[gollygee]

Posted on Facebook. The post also has a graph that says that 3,549 of 10,000 sampled Trump twitter followers also followed at least one of 10 selected white nationalist twitter accounts.

The Republican Party – once the party of state’s rights, fiscal prudence, and small government – is now the party of white Christian authoritarian nationalism. Some evidence:

-- The GOP Senate candidate in Tennessee ran an ad that promises to stand with Trump “every step of the way to build that wall,” and “yes, I stand when I hear ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.'”

-- West Virginia GOP Senate primary candidate Don Blankenship is running an ad that says: “We don’t need to investigate our president. We need to arrest Hillary … Lock her up!”

-- Indiana Senate GOP primary candidate Mike Braun recasts conservatism as ethno-nationalism. Other Indiana GOP Senate candidates are bashing “Crooked Hillary Clinton,” and claiming that in the Mueller investigation “Nothing’s been turned up except that Hillary Clinton is the real guilty party here.”

And so on.

Trump’s white Christian authoritarian nationalism will either be the end of the Republican Party, or the end of America as we knew it.

[RandomAccess]

1. He's right, but IMO those are terrible examples

There have been far better examples all around.

He could've started with the White Nationalist(s) in the White House, for example.

So many of them have actual ties to white nationalists, neo-Confederates, etc. Jeff Sessions, for example.

And there are many more.

Those who AREN'T actively involved sit silently by.... and need I remind anyone that Silence Condones?

[Garrett78]

2. State's rights and racism have always been linked.