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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Feb 24, 2016, 12:48 AM Feb 2016

The KKK Just Showed Up At The Nevada Caucus To Support Trump

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/2016/02/24/the-kkk-just-showed-up-at-the-nevada-caucus-to-support-trump/

Donald Trump’s popularity with white supremacy groups has been widely documented. His particular brand of ethnonationalist rabble-rousing and the blaming of minorities for all of our nation’s problems has struck a chord with those misguided bigots who believe that white Christian males are a superior race, and Trump’s refusal to condemn them has only encouraged others leaning that way to embrace the hatred that Trump has made a key part of his electoral platform.

But nobody really expected his obscenely racist supporters to show up to the polls in such a dramatic fashion. Krystal Heath, station manager at KVXLRadio, a Biblical station in Nevada, was probably quite surprised to run into these folks outside of the Nevada caucuses.



This, America, is what the Republican Party has come to. It is absolutely appalling to see that the front-runner of one of our nation’s two major political parties has been spouting such absurdly discriminatory rhetoric that his supporters feel bold enough to show up to caucus dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan. The New England Benevolent Police Association is a police union that endorsed Trump directly after he proposed his abhorrent ban on all Muslims from entering the United States; it is unclear if these people are actually connected to the union....

This is quite possibly the lowest point that American democracy has ever sunk to. If you needed any more reason to vote blue this November, this should be enough to convince you.


But why would the Klan support tRump? He's not white. He's orange!
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The KKK Just Showed Up At The Nevada Caucus To Support Trump (Original Post) KamaAina Feb 2016 OP
Pass that picture around to EVERYONE you know!!!! dixiegrrrrl Feb 2016 #1
ugh vadermike Feb 2016 #2
This Bernie supporter will vote for what's-her-face if he has to. KamaAina Feb 2016 #3
Nothing we're offering is anything like him. herding cats Feb 2016 #4
I will vote for either Democrat Jim Beard Feb 2016 #10
see what I mean? Skittles Feb 2016 #13
Whoever has the D leftynyc Feb 2016 #16
that says all you need to know about trumpdumbfuck spanone Feb 2016 #5
This photo and the video of him calling Mexicans rapists and criminals and . . . brush Feb 2016 #6
Five gets you ten they're neither Klansmen nor Trump supporters jmowreader Feb 2016 #7
If Trump hasn't condemned these groups gyroscope Feb 2016 #8
If he wants to play dirty pool with The Donald, it helps jmowreader Feb 2016 #9
Bam! Posted the same before I read your post Matariki Feb 2016 #12
That was my immediate thought leftynyc Feb 2016 #17
Dollars to donuts that's Ted Cruz under one of those sheets. Matariki Feb 2016 #11
or people he has hired Skittles Feb 2016 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author whirlygigspin Feb 2016 #15

vadermike

(1,415 posts)
2. ugh
Wed Feb 24, 2016, 12:51 AM
Feb 2016

But all i hear are Bernie and Hillary supporters say they wont vote for the other one cause they are mad! So i guess here we come KKK with Trump becoming President.. god help us all.. if this doesnt motivate anyone to vote Blue in November i fear for our country!

herding cats

(19,565 posts)
4. Nothing we're offering is anything like him.
Wed Feb 24, 2016, 01:02 AM
Feb 2016

I will phone bank until I can't speak if he's their nominee.

I can't believe what's taking place in this country!

brush

(53,788 posts)
6. This photo and the video of him calling Mexicans rapists and criminals and . . .
Wed Feb 24, 2016, 01:06 AM
Feb 2016

promising to export all 12 million will do very well in an ad for the GE if Trump is the opponent.

Can believe it, this stuff just writes itself because of their extreme racist, anti-immigrant crap.

jmowreader

(50,560 posts)
7. Five gets you ten they're neither Klansmen nor Trump supporters
Wed Feb 24, 2016, 01:13 AM
Feb 2016

I would not put it past Cruz to dress a couple of actors in Klan robes and have them stand outside a caucus site with Trump signs.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
8. If Trump hasn't condemned these groups
Wed Feb 24, 2016, 01:22 AM
Feb 2016

he is encouraging them to come out to his rallies.

And they certainly will come out in significant numbers, and Cruz doesn't need to hire any actors.

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