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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHE FUCKING SAID IT. "We must condemn WHITE SUPREMACY."
Miller CLEARLY did not write this.
He's also talking about the Internet spreading hate, but isn't mentioning how his own tweets accomplish that.
nolabear
(41,936 posts)maryellen99
(3,785 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)So what matters is his MAGAt rally on Aug. 15th, and the tweets that follow his teleprompter speech.
He's talking around gun control. THAT is the ONE thing he's NOT mentioning.
safeinOhio
(32,641 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)When the media shows clips of him speaking, he'll scream FAKE NEWS!
jayfish
(10,037 posts)It just a societal aspiration? ...worthless drivel written by an operative looking to give him cover..
JHB
(37,157 posts)...now that he's jumped through the rhetorical hoop he was advised to go through.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)At the next rally he may even once again joke that "they made me say it."
Seriously, these are all straws. We saw that in the midterms, though of course finally breaking away in a presidential race is a far bigger step than going blue for local issues.
The Atlantic has an article that identifies May 8 as the beginning of an acceleration of his racist arson and predicts the acceleration will continue.
The current, and (to date) most debased, phase of the Trump presidencythe phase that includes the unceasing demonization of minority legislators and the endorsement of North Korean communismbegan, in retrospect, on May 8, in the Florida Panhandle, at a rally in Panama City. It was there that Donald Trump gave tacit approval to the use of violence against immigrants. ...
... This most recent phase of the Trump presidency is the most dangerous so far. He has, of course, encouraged violence, or suggested its efficacy, on many occasions in the past. In March, in an interview with Breitbart News, he made it plain that he was sympathetic to those of his supporters who might feel compelled to become violent on his behalf. I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump. I have the tough people, but they dont play it toughuntil they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad. And he has spoken about the press in such a way as to possibly stimulate thoughts of violence among his more fervent adherents.
But in this latest phase, his rhetoric has become particularly sweeping. Brown people in general have become his targets. And there is no reason to hope that he will reform. His followers reward his radicalism, and his handlers are among the most cynical figures in American political history. His aide Kellyanne Conway tweeted on Sunday, Working as one to understand depraved evil & to eradicate hate is everyones duty. Unity. Lets do this. And his daughter Ivanka wrote, in a way that hints at a permanent separation from reality, White supremacy, like all other forms of terrorism, is an evil that must be destroyed. And, of course, there is no one of any influence in his party who is willing to confront him. ...
... As Trump faces the possibility that he will lose the presidency next year, he may become more enraged, and more willing to deploy the rhetoric of violence as a way to keep his followers properly motivated. The Panama City speech was an important moment in Trumps ongoing effort to make the American presidency a vehicle in the cause of marginalizing and frightening racial minorities; the killings are a possible (and predictable) consequence of such rhetoric. ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/trump-getting-worse/595453/
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)This is ivanka forcing his hand.