Kaine: Trump's rhetoric 'emboldens' white nationalists

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Source: Politico





03/17/2019 01:31 PM EDT


Sen. Tim Kaine on Sunday slammed President Donald Trump’s rhetoric in the wake of a shooting that killed 50 people at two mosques in New Zealand.

In an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, ripped Trump for not calling out white nationalists and for “using language that emboldens them.”

“It is on the rise and the president should call it out but sadly he’s not doing that,” Kaine said. “We saw in the aftermath of the horrible attack in Charlottesville that he tried to say that the white supremacists, neo-Nazis, neo-confederates there were just, you know, ‘good people,’” Kaine said.
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“The president uses language often that’s very similar to the language used by these bigots and racists,” Kaine said. “And if he’s not going to call it out then other leaders have to do more to call it out and I certainly will.”

“I think the president is using language that emboldens them. He’s not creating them. They’re out there,” Kaine said, adding, “That kind of language from the person who probably has the loudest microphone on the planet Earth is hurtful and dangerous and it tends to incite violence.”

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Good on Kaine. EVERY Democratic should get on national TV and condemn Trump speech.


"The president uses language often that's very similar to the language used by these bigots and racists," said the Virginia Democrat

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[RKP5637]

1. Not surprised. tRump, is the leader of the White Nationalist Movement which is replacing the GOP,

step by step. Apparently the GOP congress is OK with it all judging by the silence of many republicans in the tRump Cult!

[sakabatou]

2. Well, duh

White nationalists are part of his base.

[BlueMTexpat]

3. Kaine should have said that

Trump's rhetoric "emboldens" white terrorists.

Let's stop calling them anything less than what they are.

[lagomorph777]

4. Come on - let's say it out loud: "Trump is LEADING the white terrorists."

We can no longer afford to be polite.

[Marthe48]

5. Maybe the monsters see other humans as prey

The white nationalists killers/terrorists among us seem to have a mindset that everyone else is fair game. When our government, legal system, churches, are trying to teach us that everyone is equal, it seems like the monsters are more concerned that the pressure for equality means there will be fewer targets on which to satisfy their blood lust. I don't know if my view is right, but we are living in the same culture, and the humans advocating or acting on deadly force are willfully ignoring all legal and moral attempts to stop killing other people. And the manifestos they write indicate that they want to do kill. Do hunters think of the relationships between the animals they hunt? Do farmers think of the relationships between the animals they raise for slaughter? Even though unlikely friendships between species is 'cute' or lions have a political agenda or Bambi loves Faline, except for us crazy cat ladies, not a whole lot of people acknowledge that animals can bond. I don't think human killers who target humans don't care about the victims' loved ones, or anything about the life they are cutting short. They hunt, we die.

In the last year, friends of friends, who lived, have been part of the targeted crowd. How soon before my friends are part of the crowds, how soon before I go to a funeral because a human killer murders someone I know?