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babylonsister

(171,075 posts)
Fri Aug 2, 2019, 12:03 PM Aug 2019

Mark Sanford Explains How Trump's Racism Is Killing The GOP

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/08/02/mark-sanford-trump-racism.html

Posted on Fri, Aug 2nd, 2019 by Jason Easley
Mark Sanford Explains How Trump’s Racism Is Killing The GOP


Former Rep. Mark Sanford said that Trump’s rhetoric is turning the Republican Party into the party of white men and making it impossible for the GOP to grow.


Sanford said on MSNBC, “It needs to branch out. To state the obvious, some of the president’s rhetoric is destructive. It’s harmful not only in selling a message but building a party. If we dwindle to being a party of white men we have a real problem given the trendlines within our country.”

A lot of focus gets placed on the number of people who are leaving the Republican Party as a representation of the damage that Trump is doing, but there is a flip side to that coin, and that’s the people who won’t consider becoming Republicans because of Trump.

Republican spent decades prior to the tea party movement reaching out to Hispanic and Latino voters. Trump has turned those potential voters into targets for his racism. Republicans owed George W. Bush’s reelection to suburban white women. Under Trump, those women are resisting the Republican Party.

It is a bit of a chicken and egg argument. Is Trump a symptom or the disease that is killing the Republican Party? He could possibly be both. Racism and extremism put Trump into office, but those beliefs as policy are killing the Republican Party.

If the Republican Party become the white man party, it will go extinct. Trump is both the last gasp howl of white male political privilege and the big bang event the could wipe Republicans off of the political landscape.
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Mark Sanford Explains How Trump's Racism Is Killing The GOP (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2019 OP
The key word in all of this is "former" representative Mark Sanford gratuitous Aug 2019 #1
So run against him already. brush Aug 2019 #2
I hope the Incels are sweating it. nt Ilsa Aug 2019 #3
Ha-ha-ha... "Trump's racism" TlalocW Aug 2019 #4
A Trump-et JHB Aug 2019 #6
Sanford and his ilk are responsible for the present state of the GOP pecosbob Aug 2019 #5
You were first elected to congress in 1994, Marko... JHB Aug 2019 #7

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. The key word in all of this is "former" representative Mark Sanford
Fri Aug 2, 2019, 12:07 PM
Aug 2019

And Sanford's "chicken and egg argument" is particularly risible coming the same week as the release of the Nixon tape from 1971 where Ronald Reagan calls UN delegates from Africa "monkeys" who haven't yet gotten used to wearing shoes (you know, like civilized white people). That racism has been there your whole life, Mark. Pretending to be surprised by it now only makes you look more foolish and cowardly.

TlalocW

(15,388 posts)
4. Ha-ha-ha... "Trump's racism"
Fri Aug 2, 2019, 12:41 PM
Aug 2019

Trump is just the first republican president who is unable to grasp subtlety when it comes to racism. Trump has no dog-whistle mode. It's an airhorn.

TlalocW

pecosbob

(7,542 posts)
5. Sanford and his ilk are responsible for the present state of the GOP
Fri Aug 2, 2019, 12:49 PM
Aug 2019

It didn't start with Trump, and it didn't start with the Tea Party. You have all been fully complicit since Saint Ronnie Raygun decided it was more important to get your way than to follow the rules or to follow the law. You all have been complicit in robbing the working class and disenfranchising tens of millions of Americans. Go to Hell and take all the other enablers, normalizers and prostitutes for the one percent with you.

JHB

(37,161 posts)
7. You were first elected to congress in 1994, Marko...
Fri Aug 2, 2019, 01:03 PM
Aug 2019

Ring any bells? You forget this guy and his radio buddy? Rump something?




He encouraged you guys to treat Democrats as "the enemy of normal Americans."

You spent your entire career swimming in the pipeline that lead to Trump. You. Built. This.


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