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Trump doesn't condemn white supremacists, he hires them: Corey Stewart takes over Trump PAC
To underline that fact, ABC News is reporting that the new head of the pro-Trump Keep America Great PAC will be confederacy fan and white supremacy poster boy, Corey Stewart. The far-right Stewart, who describes himself as a “disciple” of Trump, managed to lose the Senate race in Virginia by a whooping 32 point margin after his racism, lies, and general nastiness sent voters running.
But racism, lies, and general nastiness describe the Trump GOP perfectly. Stewart’s pledge to “run a very vicious and ruthless campaign,” earned him the Senate nod over more reasonable candidates. In addition to promising to be hateful, Stewart had all the other qualities the GOP seeks in a modern candidate: He won a local race by railing about the “invasion” of immigrants and promoting laws to make it easier for police to hold people on suspicion of being undocumented, he declared himself biggest defender of Confederate monuments and said calls to take them down were “like ISIS,” and he smugly announced that he was “Trump before Trump was Trump.”
That includes being a proud “birther” and declaring that Virginia rebelled in the Civil War because “the established order was wrong.” Stewart also called for a new rebellion “because they’re trying to rob us of everything that we hold dear: our history, our heritage, our culture” — language that could have been lifted from the racist manifesto of the New Zealand shooter. It’s that kind of language that helped Stewart earn the enthusiastic support of the “pro-white activists” behind the “Unit the Right” Nazi march in Charlottesville.
Trump isn’t decrying white nationalists. He’s hiring them.
But racism, lies, and general nastiness describe the Trump GOP perfectly. Stewart’s pledge to “run a very vicious and ruthless campaign,” earned him the Senate nod over more reasonable candidates. In addition to promising to be hateful, Stewart had all the other qualities the GOP seeks in a modern candidate: He won a local race by railing about the “invasion” of immigrants and promoting laws to make it easier for police to hold people on suspicion of being undocumented, he declared himself biggest defender of Confederate monuments and said calls to take them down were “like ISIS,” and he smugly announced that he was “Trump before Trump was Trump.”
That includes being a proud “birther” and declaring that Virginia rebelled in the Civil War because “the established order was wrong.” Stewart also called for a new rebellion “because they’re trying to rob us of everything that we hold dear: our history, our heritage, our culture” — language that could have been lifted from the racist manifesto of the New Zealand shooter. It’s that kind of language that helped Stewart earn the enthusiastic support of the “pro-white activists” behind the “Unit the Right” Nazi march in Charlottesville.
Trump isn’t decrying white nationalists. He’s hiring them.
[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/16/1842625/-Trump-doesn-t-condemn-white-supremacists-he-hires-them-Corey-Stewart-takes-over-Trump-PAC?|
He is part of all of it...