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HAB911

(8,891 posts)
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 09:45 AM Mar 2017

Republicans are Americas white-nationalist party now

racists were once pushed to the fringes. In the Trump era, they're in charge.

In 1990, former President Ronald Reagan gave a moving speech to mark the end of the Cold War. “I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don’t know why he chose to write it, but I’m glad he did,” Reagan said. “He wrote that you can go to live in France, but you can’t become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Italy, but you can’t become a German, an Italian. He went through Turkey, Greece, Japan, and other countries. But he said anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in the United States and become an American.”

Reagan endorsed that view and went on to point out: “If we take this crowd and if we could go through and ask the heritage, the background of every family represented here, we would probably come up with the names of every country on Earth, every corner of the world, and every race. Here is the one spot on Earth where we have the brotherhood of man. And maybe as we continue with this proudly, this brotherhood of man made up from people representative of every corner of the Earth, maybe one day boundaries all over the Earth will disappear as people cross boundaries and find out that, yes, there is a brotherhood of man in every corner.”

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/14/the-gop-is-americas-party-of-white-nationalism/

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Republicans are Americas white-nationalist party now (Original Post) HAB911 Mar 2017 OP
The Trumplican Party. tanyev Mar 2017 #1
They have been America's white-nationalist party for the past 50 years Zorro Mar 2017 #2
The disease has reached its apex dalton99a Mar 2017 #3
White Nationalist Party more appropriately​ the Nazi Party. democratisphere Mar 2017 #4

Zorro

(15,740 posts)
2. They have been America's white-nationalist party for the past 50 years
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 09:55 AM
Mar 2017

It was blatantly obvious to the college crowd then.

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