In Race for London Mayor, Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim Playbook Seems to Be Failing for Zac Goldsmith
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The Intercept) STOP ME IF youve heard this one: an outsider politician who owes his station in life to the hundreds of millions he inherited from his father is running a failing campaign for office based on stoking fear of Muslims.
The word failing as in 20 points down in the polls days before the election is a clue that we are speaking about someone other than Donald Trump.
In this case, the politicians name is Zac Goldsmith, and he is the millionaire scion of a prominent British family. He was thought of, until recently, as a mild-mannered Conservative member of Parliament, known mainly for his environmentalism and his sisters friendship with the late Princess Diana.
For the past two months, however, he has generated waves of disgust and, polls suggest, not much sympathy, by pursuing a mayoral campaign filled with racially divisive innuendo about the supposed danger of electing his Labour Party rival, Sadiq Khan, a son of Pakistani Muslim immigrants.
Things reached something of a crescendo over the weekend, when Goldsmith advised by a political consultant whose website boasts that he was Described by Newt Gingrich as the UKs own Lee Atwater published a dog-whistle appeal to voters in the Mail on Sunday, a right-wing tabloid, that implied Khan, a moderate member of Parliament, would somehow fail to defend the British capital from Islamist terrorists. .........................(more)
https://theintercept.com/2016/05/03/least-london-rich-heirs-campaign-instill-fear-muslims-not-going-well/