Trump believes white nationalism is a winning strategy -- because Fox News tells him so

[DonViejo]

Fox News has gone so deep into white nationalism that Donald Trump now believes that's how he'll win in 2020

AMANDA MARCOTTE
JULY 16, 2019 5:35PM (UTC)

Donald Trump thinks white nationalism is going to win him the 2020 election. This much is clear. Trump's racist Twitter rant on Sunday — in which he suggested that four nonwhite congresswomen, three of whom were born in the United States, are "originally" from somewhere else and should therefore "go back" — might have seemed at first like a spontaneous eruption of racist rage from the simmering bigot in the White House.

Soon, however, it became clear that this was strategic. Trump thinks it's a winning move to echo the claims of David Duke and other white nationalists who believe the United States is for white people. He justified his racism by saying that "many people agree with me," and by continuing to rave on Twitter about how the real purveyors of "racist hatred" are those who look askance at his embracing the rhetoric of Stormfront and the KKK.

As Heather Digby Parton argued for Salon, this is more than an explosion of racist anger. Trump "believes that most Americans are as racist as he is and that he will be rewarded for this indecency with a second term."

There's good reason to think Trump and his boosters are wrong about this. As New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie pointed out on Twitter, "Trump's popularity has taken its sharpest dips whenever he goes full racist," and that even that seemingly rock-solid level of support that sits right around 42% in opinion polls has dipped into the 30s when Trump openly aligns himself with white nationalist views. Thanks largely to his racism (as well as his stunning lack of competence), Trump has spent his entire term in office with lower overall approval ratings than any president in more than 60 years.

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https://www.salon.com/2019/07/16/trump-believes-white-nationalism-is-a-winning-strategy-because-fox-news-tells-him-so/

[vlyons]

1. Trump will find out how wrong he his come election night

The only question that I have is will NBC, CBS call his election defeat before or after 8PM PST?

[Thekaspervote]

4. Indeed!!

[dalton99a]

2. And fascism:

[Wellstone ruled]

3. He got away with the false

story of the Central Park Five and the Media never took him to task fully over that fake story. Now we are seeing the same Script being used once again only with the names changed and the players are Political so called enemies of him.