Trump’s main damage has already been done: He has raised a generation of racist bullies

[DonViejo]

Trump has both capitalized from and inspired a new wave of racial hostility in this country

MATTHEW ROZSA

To understand precisely how Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has changed America, one need only look at a new pair of surveys. In April the Southern Poverty Law Center discovered that the Trump campaign has triggered an unprecedented wave of bigoted bullying in American schools: More than two-thirds of the teachers surveyed have had immigrant, Hispanic, and Muslim students express fear about what will happen to them or their families if Trumps wins, while more than one-third have directly witnessed an increase in anti-Muslim or anti-immigrant prejudice.

More recently, Gallup’s Jonathan Rothwell learned that Trump supporters are less likely to be directly affected by trade and immigration (two of Trump’s top issues) and more likely to be white, suffer from diminished intergenerational mobility and feel generally apprehensive about nonwhite minority groups.

In short, there is no doubt that Trump has both capitalized from and inspired a new wave of racial hostility in this country. The only question left is, What will happen after he is gone?

A first hint comes from looking at the last presidential candidate comparable to Trump. In the 1964 election, when Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona defied the GOP establishment of his time to seize his party’s nomination, his open opposition to civil rights officially intertwined the Republican brand with the cause of active racism. Although Goldwater was trounced by President Lyndon Johnson in the general election, more subtle candidates picked up his baton in future elections. Most notably, Richard Nixon’s 1968 election and Ronald Reagan’s 1980 election both involved their mastering the art of avoiding overt racist statements while finding cover issues (law and order, welfare reform, states’ rights, busing) that allowed their followers to avoid the stigma of being overtly bigoted.

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http://www.salon.com/2016/08/17/trumps-main-damage-has-already-been-done-he-has-raised-a-generation-of-racist-bullies/

[Cosmocat]

1. It really isn't trump

this didn't happen in the last year.

It just has been the latest of an ongoing mutation.

Republicans/conservatives keep getting exponentially worse.

They were raging assholes in the 90s.

They were bullying assholes in the 00s (you were either with them or the terrorists!).

They were completely unhinged, temper tantrum throwing children up until this election.

This election they have simply just have been given the means to be out and out, mean spirited dicks.

[gordianot]

2. All they have left to accomplish is real violence.

[get the red out]

3. Absolutely agree

And the mainstream media has helped it along by giving equal, serious coverage to the Tea Party. I stopped watching any news coverage at all once the 'baggers were the lead story every night for maybe YEARS. But those racist jackasses were treated as a "grass roots" movement of the people by so-called "journalists", and not just Fox News, which rolled out that Astro-turf, they all jumped on that bandwagon.

[Cosmocat]

4. Ah, 2010

when BEING ANGRY was the all american thing to be.

[FSogol]

5. Screw that. They'll lose so bad, we won't hear another beep out of those fuckers.

GOTV, DU