Republicans can’t pretend not to know what fuels the Trump campaign

[Arkansas Granny]

IN A major speech Thursday, Hillary Clinton linked Donald Trump to bigoted elements on the fringe of American politics. But she got it wrong when she said, “Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters.”

It’s not a “dog whistle” if everyone can hear the bigotry.

Republicans supporting Mr. Trump, explicitly or tacitly, cannot reasonably claim that they do not know who he is and what he has been doing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-cant-pretend-not-to-know-what-fuels-the-trump-campaign/2016/08/26/29289112-6bb2-11e6-99bf-f0cf3a6449a6_story.html?utm_term=.21e74b73613d

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Crafting of the modern day GOP message

began with Richard Nixon. Later is further refined by Lee Attwater and Roger Ailes,then embellished even more by the likes of Karl Rove, Frank Luntz and field tested via Limpballs and Weiner Savage. What you see and hear is what has happened to Ikes Party post LBJ.

Wedge issues became the play of the day and civility was kicked to the curb.

[pansypoo53219]

2. butbutbut today's GOP isn't wearing KKK garb & saying the n word. so they aren't racists. right?

RIGHT??? never mind the evidence they ARE.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I'm sure that some of them honestly don't realize how racist they actually are.

In a conversation with a co-worker, who is a deacon in his church, he stated that when he was growing up they always called black people n*****s, but there wasn't anything racist about it. What?!?!? I couldn't believe what I was hearing and he couldn't believe that I considered it a racist comment.

It's just so ingrained in them that they don't recognize it. It's not a hatred of AA's or fear. They just believe as a matter of fact that whites are superior to blacks in intellect, morals, industry, you name it. They learned this as children and it has become part of their core beliefs.

To his credit, he told me recently that he can't believe that Trump got the nomination and that he can't vote for him. Of course, he won't vote for Hillary either, but it's at least one less vote for Trump.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. Encourage him just to skip voting

this year "in protest". That will stop him from voting down ticket.