NYT nails it on Trump. HIS ISLAMOPHOBIA DID NOT COME OUT OF NOWHERE--GOP peddling this for years

[kpete]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/opinion/the-trump-effect-and-how-it-spreads.html

[pampango]

1. "The racism behind the agenda of the right wing on immigrants and foreigners has long been plain ...

"... the danger right now is allowing him to legitimize the hatred that he so skillfully exploits, and to revive the old American tendency, in frightening times, toward vicious treatment of the weak and outsiders."

The internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II, as some Republicans have either forgotten or never understood, was a dark episode in American history. It is remembered today with regret, as something the nation struggled with, learned from, and moved beyond. But there are millions of Muslims who have good reason to fear that the darkness is falling again.

The time to renounce Mr. Trump’s views was the day he entered the race, calling Mexico an exporter of criminals and rapists. He played to the politics of nativism and fear that was evident last year, when a wave of Central American mothers and children, fleeing gang-and-drug warfare to the Texas border, presented themselves upon the mercy of the United States, and were met with derision and hysteria.

The racism behind the agenda of the right wing on immigrants and foreigners has long been plain as day. Mr. Trump makes it even plainer. After his remarks on Muslims, how many of Mr. Trump’s rivals have said they would reject his candidacy if he won the nomination? As of Wednesday, none.

Even if Trump eventually implodes and, hopefully takes the 2016 GOP with him, the legitimacy he is giving to the racism and nativism of the right may be hard to put back in the tube. At least that is what has happened in Europe recently.

[Gloria]

2. This is exactly right....

And, the same thing applies to killers at Planned Parenthood clinics..
Local rag printed a lovely piece by "Pro-Life Las Cruces" how they never endorse violence..

But...the seeds are there....before they pat themselves on the back....if you are obsessed enough
to stand on the main drag everyday, laughing amongst each other, with signs shunting women to fake clinics; or are obviously pushing your INTOLERANT views with the Catholic priest in your midst, thereby ignoring what other faiths believe (talk to the rabbi in town), etc. etc.

Then you are the base of the pyramd from which the intensity of this crap begins...

And the GOP has encouraged this sort of crap.

Interestingly, no protesters the last few days....they must be laying low....

[underpants]

3. Good editorial but The Old Grey Lady, once again, fails to connect to THE source - RW media

and the supposed MSM that follows Fox News down rabbit holes. The grandfather of RW media is talk radio which has fueled this sort of fear mongering for years. Radio used to be the leader but now just acts as the choir behind Fox News repeating current talking points.

[flamingdem]

4. Absolutely

[malaise]

5. +1,000

None of this was possible without RW radio, TV and M$Greedia and her hacks

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R