Trump goes full Alt-Right and voids everything he said yesterday

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Watching the lefties here do this is hilarious

This is the perfect example of the average Trump voter.

It is all about making lefties upset....that is all they care about.

My comment from an earlier thread-

The whole premise of support for him was "Let's elect a stupid, incompetent president just because that'll make the libtards mad and be hilarious"

It doesn't matter that he's utterly impotent as president and can't pass a single part of his legislative agenda (health care, taxes, spending cuts) with his own party in control of both chambers of congress. He made some dumbass comment defending a bunch of white nationalist trash today and it made the libtards mad, so that's all that matters. His presidency is just about coddling the fragile feelings of bigots without any substantive policy change.

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The GOP is basically a racist organization now

I used to be a strong Republican leaner and still agree with the bulk of their economic platform (the party in general, not Trump's per se) but I don't see how I'm supposed to view them as not the "Party of Stupid" full of racists anymore. Anyone with anything remotely positive to say about the "Unite the Right" protests is either a racist or pandering to them, which is no better.

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My comment from an earlier thread-

The whole premise of support for him was "Let's elect a stupid, incompetent president just because that'll make the libtards mad and be hilarious"

It doesn't matter that he's utterly impotent as president and can't pass a single part of his legislative agenda (health care, taxes, spending cuts) with his own party in control of both chambers of congress. He made some dumbass comment defending a bunch of white nationalist trash today and it made the libtards mad, so that's all that matters. His presidency is just about coddling the fragile feelings of bigots without any substantive policy change.

No segment of people has more blatantly demonstrated the dangers of identity politics gone awry than the most hardcore of Trump supporters. Ironic, considering their self-proclaimed hatred for it.

I hate identity politics. I hated it when the dems did it, but Trump is taking it to such an extreme where there are no issues and the only thing that matters us what race you are.

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Is anyone seriously shocked? By any of this?

I'm honestly surprised by today with him explicitly defending a white supremacist protest. I wasn't surprised by his just being vague about it over the weekend.

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"Not all of those people were nazis" is technically accurate in this case as well-

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The racist Republican Party:

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This is pretty telling given that so many Republicans are publicly criticizing him. They're rebelling against the talking points.

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This is not America.

This is not a president.

Every Trump voter who is not also a white supremacist Nazi needs to be ashamed of themselves.  There is no legitimate excuse for Trump's remarks, as there was no legitimate reason for you to vote for him.  I question your integrity, morals, and patriotism.  If you still support this man in the face of his Nazi-sympathizing remarks, then you are un-American; you have no American values; you don't even know what American values are.

You also have no sense of self respect, dignity, morality, or decency.  You are a stain on this country.

I'm not a Trump voter, but what makes you think Hillary Clinton was any better? She would be having a very hard time right now as well.

Hillary Clinton would not be having a hard time treating this attack appropriately, which is what the thread is about.

The rallies might not have even happened if she won, or if Trump never had a campaign. Or if they did it would have been the usual double digit number of losers who used to show up to these things and it would have been a non-story.

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The Left demonizes white people, period. It's not fair that this rubs off on the Democratic party, but it does. Yesterday Nikkita Oliver, who came in third place in the Seattle mayoral primary, attacked the two women who made it into the runoff as "white." Of course this kind of behavior is inflammatory and nurtures the Trump-right. I wish both sides would cut it out, or a vital 'center' ideology would be resuscitated.

Saying "both sides" when comparing the President of the United States and head of the Republican Party to someone came in third place in the Seattle mayoral primary is disingenuous, at best.

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Trump's lawyer emailed this to Congressional GOP demanding they repeat these talking points :

Yes, George Washington, who refused to be made King and voluntarily stepped down after 8 years is exactly the same as Napeoleon who made himself emperor of France and ruled as an absolute monarch.

Let's also ignore the fact that Washington betrayed the imperialist British Empire and Lee betrayed the United States.

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He just gets it, doesn't he?

I mean who can blame the guy for pandering to his constituents, in the northernmost state on the East Coast....

I get especially suspicious when people from outside the South (like Trump) get all nostalgic about the Confederacy and Confederate symbols. The "heritage" argument doesn't apply in their case.