Hate, unleashed: How...Trump unleashed the right-wing bigots that the GOP once kept under control

[babylonsister]

http://www.salon.com/2016/09/30/hate-unleashed-for-decades-the-gop-kept-right-wing-bigots-under-control-trump-has-snapped-the-tether/

Hate, unleashed: How Donald Trump unleashed the right-wing bigots that the GOP once kept under control
Republicans have cashed in on ugly bigotry for years, while keeping the worst offenders under wraps. No longer.
Heather Digby Parton


There has been a lot of talk over this presidential campaign about the lack of enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton compared with the excitement and energy among Donald Trump’s followers. It is a bit overblown; there are plenty of highly enthusiastic Clinton fans who are very excited to see the first woman president.

But it is nonetheless true that Trump has inspired a group of remarkably passionate and committed followers. And while many of these people have legitimate economic gripes that are finding expression in Trump’s “angry outsider” populism, what electrifies many of them is something else entirely.

They chant, “Build that wall!” and “Lock her up!” They cheer wildly when Trump says he will ban Muslims and send refugees back where they came from. They catcall the media and shove and hit protesters while Trump cheers them on from the stage. They enthusiastically endorse his promise to torture terrorist suspects and “take out their families” and cheerfully back his calls to let the police take the gloves off to restore law and order. They wear overtly misogynist T-shirts that say “Trump That Bitch” and “Hillary Sucks, But Not Like Monica.” (A new slogan has recently been added to the collection: “I wish Hillary had married O.J.”)

Outside Trump rallies, where Confederate flags are commonly displayed and sold, videos show that people are worked up, energized, febrile. Reporters overhear snippets of conversation like “You can’t trust Latinos. Some maybe, but not most,” “Immigrants aren’t people, honey” and “You know them crazy black girls, how they are.” Something feral and undomesticated has been set free.


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That’s what Trump is doing, too, saying out loud what unhinged right-wingers have long been thinking and giving them permission to do publicly what they’ve wanted to do all along: rapturously, ecstatically and openly wallow in hate. They’re having the time of their lives.

[vlyons]

1. Hatred is poison

Hate makes people stupid. Think, say, and do stupid stuff. Hate and ill will are addictive mental habits that get nurtured again and again over time. Those who nurture hatred are not happy people. Hatred is counter-productive and contagious, causing others to feel hatred back. Hatred is difficult to overcome, because it is so addictive. Hatred is fueled by fear, resentment, and envy. Don't fall into the trap of hating the haters. See them for what they are: deeply delusional people, who suffer from the result of their own hatred.

[vinny9698]

12. Trump has made bigotry fashionable, they are coming out of the closet

Their next move is to be have Bigot Pride Parades. They will try to march in other parades but will be denied. They will then get the ACLU to sue the sponsors. Their flag will the a combination of the Gadsen flag, KKK, and Nazi symbols on it.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. K&R

[apcalc]

3. Agree

[UCmeNdc]

4. Agree!

Trump's main power and influence comes from his sympathetic to racism followers.

[Cakes488]

9. OH yeah you should see the outright racist and bigoted hate

over at the right wing rag sites....sadly this faction of our society exists. It's like shooting fish in a barrel over there.

[Mamajami]

5. Some of them were the "Dixiecrats" who crossed over from the party in the '60's. Sadly, some

stayed registered as Democrats. I think they are the one who mostly switched this time around.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Did the GOP keep them under control?

Or were we living with a high level of dysfunction in this country?

[Blue Idaho]

7. The stank that won't wash off...

Out of desperation the republicans are willing to try anything to rescue this election from the jaws of defeat. Unfortunately they learned nothing from the teabagger infection that has driven their party to its knees.

Now they welcome the most blatant hatemongers into the tent. Well I only have one thing to say about that:

It won't wash off and it won't rise out... welcome to the all new, all white, alt-right party.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

8. Palin was pretty darn good at this, but she's been

Trumped.

Then again, a lot of these cretins came out of the closet at her rallies and probably formed clubs and recruited more of their kind. A bunch of little support groups, validating one anther's worst characteristics, growing in strength and bigotry over the past 8 years, unleashed now to carry Trump on a giant Confederate flag into the White House.

[pnwmom]

10. The writer is wrong about this much: the crazies didn't break the chain.

Trump arrived with a bolt-cutter and let them all loose.

[oasis]

11. Example: Trump labels recent civil unrest as "race riots" although

he says he was cautioned against using that term.

[TeamPooka]

13. They're a lynch mob of racism and zenophobia. nt

[AgadorSparticus]

14. As David Duke says, Donald Trump is why he is running for office again.

The racist assholes have been let out of their cages...