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kpete

(72,010 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 10:21 AM Jul 2019

If only someone had warned us.


Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton today disparaged her Republican rival as a tool of the racist, radical right, a man who foments “paranoia and prejudice” and ushers hate groups into the mainstream.

Donald Trump is “a man with a long history of racial discrimination”, Clinton said during a Thursday rally in the flag-festooned student center at Truckee Meadows Community College. He is a man “who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet”.
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“This is not conservatism as we have known it,” she continued. “This is not Republicanism as we have known it. These are racist ideas, race-baiting ideas, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-women, all key tenets making up the emerging racist ideology known as the alt-right.”

“The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump campaign represents a landmark achievement for the ‘alt-right’,” Clinton declared. “A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican party. All of this adds up to something we’ve never seen before.

“Of course, there’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment,” she continued. “But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.”




https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/25/hillary-clinton-alt-right-racism-speech-donald-trump-nevada
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If only someone had warned us. (Original Post) kpete Jul 2019 OP
Can we call it fascism now... Thomas Hurt Jul 2019 #1
So glad to see her speaking out with regularity malaise Jul 2019 #2
The date on the article is Aug. 25, 2016 House of Roberts Jul 2019 #3
Didn't click the link malaise Jul 2019 #5
Yep. There's a yellow banner above the title. House of Roberts Jul 2019 #6
She had trump figured out all the way .. CatMor Jul 2019 #4
She tried to warn us, but no one would listen..... ProudMNDemocrat Jul 2019 #7

malaise

(269,157 posts)
5. Didn't click the link
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 10:31 AM
Jul 2019

Still - she is speaking out more these days. Would love her to repeat these words.
I should have picked up on the Democratic party nominee

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CatMor

(6,212 posts)
4. She had trump figured out all the way ..
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 10:30 AM
Jul 2019

if only more people had listened to what she had to say, including the media, we wouldnt be in this mess right now.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)
7. She tried to warn us, but no one would listen.....
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 11:07 AM
Jul 2019

There will be that 35% to 40% who will follow Trump no matter what.

It is the other 60% plus the Republicans must be concerned about. There is no getting those voters back if Trump continues down this dangerous path. Someone is going to get killed once again and it WILL be because of Trump and the Republican SILENCE.

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