Republicans prefer the racist anti-Semite

[struggle4progress]

By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
August 21


... Escalating fears of a recession (along with Trump’s erratic, unhinged reaction to those fears) and signs of Trump’s emotional meltdown (e.g. refusing to visit Denmark because it would not sell Greenland to the United States, his anti-Semitic accusation of Jews’ disloyalty) provide Republicans every reason to worry that he will drag the party under. To make matters worse, poll results show a mammoth gender gap, loss of support from white women and Trump consistently losing to several Democratic candidates in a head-to-head contest ...

The argument for Trump in 2016 in some GOP circles was that Hillary Clinton was worse. This argument was absurd at the time, and even more so in retrospect, yet it was the ostensible reason that some Trump voters gave for supporting him. The excuse in 2020 would be that somehow whomever the Democrats pick will be worse. Again, I find this ludicrous, given Trump’s foreign policy recklessness, obstruction of justice as detailed in the Mueller report, personal unfitness and abject corruption. Nevertheless, if we do accept it for the moment, then what’s the excuse for rejecting pro-life, conservative alternatives to Trump?

There really is none, and here it is important to strip away the pretense and rationalizations that so many Trump supporters utilize to defend their support of an indefensible president. They prefer a president who is racist, xenophobic, corrupt, cruel, misogynistic, dishonest and unhinged. They cannot claim that they are voting against Democrats and their supposedly scary left-wing agenda. In choosing Trump and not another Republican who’d pursue their issues with none of the toxic qualities Trump embodies, they identify themselves as enablers of all those vile qualities, lose any plausible excuse that they are simply prioritizing one issue (e.g. abortion) and expose themselves as flunkies for a president with no redeeming features.

When it comes to accountability, we’ll know who was in the latter group. For a post-Trump right, it will be critical to bar elected officials in this category from the halls of power. It will help voters decide whether a post-Trump party has turned over a new leaf ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/21/republicans-have-choice-they-prefer-racist-anti-semite/

Reject the Trump flunkies! might be a really useful slogan through several election cycles

[guillaumeb]

1. Racism is foundational to the post-1968 GOP.

Not all GOP voters are racists, but racists vote for the GOP.

[PandoraAwakened]

2. Not to mention that the party of Gross Old Perverts (GOP) ACTIVELY courts the racists,

...and the misogynists,

...and the xenophobes,

...and the homophobes,

...and the anti-Semites,

...and...well, I guess we might as well admit it...They're just a regular cornucopia of deplorables.

Hillary was certainly right about that one.

[guillaumeb]

3. True. The GOP is a fear based and hate based Party.