News Why Trump Is Soft on White-Supremacist Terrorism

[brassmonkey]

Last week, President Trump repeated his absurd claim that he had never called the Nazi protesters who descended on Charlottesville in 2017 “very fine people.” On Saturday, yet another white-supremacist attack, on a synagogue in California, demonstrated the point that Trump and his allies wish to obscure: Right-wing terrorism is a more extreme version of Trump’s own political style. It draws inspiration from his ideas and some measure of protection from his political power.

Conservatives have long denied any links whatsoever between the brand of white supremacy represented by Nazis or the Ku Klux Klan and Republican-style conservatism. Conservative books like Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning and Dinesh D’Souza’s The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left have tried, absurdly, to identify these movements with the left side of the ideological spectrum.

The rise of Donald Trump has made this strained argument preposterous. Trump is not a white supremacist; if I showed you a block of text from one of his speeches side by side with a speech by David Duke, you would be able to tell the difference. But Trump’s rhetoric has excited and mobilized white supremacists because it teases the same theories that they make explicitly. Trump paints unauthorized immigrants as bloodthirsty rapists and murderers and touts their arrival as part of a geopolitical conspiracy to demographically transform the United States.

“A lot of people say” the caravan he hyped was funded by George Soros, Trump suggested last fall. (Trump favorite Lou Dobbs is one of the people who was saying this.) Trump’s closing campaign ad railed against “a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities,” juxtaposing this inflammatory claim over images of Soros and other Jewish figures.

The message is surely lost on the vast majority of Trump’s voters, but not on the white-supremacist movement. The shooters in New Zealand, Pittsburgh, and California all articulated this nativist theory in their manifestos.

To be sure, Trump formally denounces terrorist attacks on Jewish and Muslim worshippers. But he is not very good at masking the difference between those condemnations he offers grudgingly and those that have real passion behind them. When asked last month if he considered white-supremacist terror a growing threat, he demurred, “I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems, I guess.” Trump portrays white supremacists as a tiny force disconnected from politics. In contrast to his rhetoric about ISIS or other Islamist terrorism, which he insists must be labelled Islamic, Trump shrinks from placing white-supremacist terror in its ideological context. Just a handful of crazy nuts with big problems.

Some apologists ascribe the president’s reticence to mere stubbornness: Trump resents being pushed into a corner by the media, they say, and so he refuses to back down from any statement. The problem with this theory is that a certain softness about white-supremacist terror is official Republican doctrine.

In 2009, the Department of Homeland Security wrote a classified report highlighting the dangers of right-wing domestic terrorism. The report outraged conservatives by predicting, accurately, that the election of a black president would stoke far-right violent extremism. One hook Republicans used to discredit the report was its claim that white supremacists would target service members and law enforcement for recruitment, which they claimed was a slur against veterans.

The right’s primary objection to the report was in the link it posited between violent extremism on the one hand and the backlash against Obama and the federal government on the other. “It’s no small coincidence that Napolitano’s agency – referring to Homeland Security director Janet Napolitano – “disseminated the assessment just a week before the nationwide April 15 Tax Day Tea Party protests,” argued Michelle Malkin. The Drudge Report hyped the story with a banner warning, “She Is Watching You.” John Boehner insisted Napolitano “owes the American people an explanation for why she has abandoned using the term ‘terrorist’ to describe those, such as al Qaeda, who are plotting overseas to kill innocent Americans, while her own Department is using the same term to describe American citizens who disagree with the direction Washington Democrats are taking our nation.”

This episode took place at a time when Republicans were committed to presenting the tea party as a movement of principled deficit hawks sincerely concerned about inflation and debt-financed outlays. Yet their backlash against the Homeland Security paper reflected their recognition of a political affinity between their brand of anti-Obama panic and the violent kind identified by the department. The paper did not make the connection between tea-party protests and paranoid or violent extremism; Republicans drew the connection themselves.

The dynamic has only intensified in the Trump era. At a hearing on white-supremacist terrorism earlier this month, Republicans kept derailing the conversation. “Every time Democrats talked about President Trump’s anti-immigrant remarks, or how government agencies should do more to fight the spread of white nationalism, Republicans pivoted to criticism of identity politics, anti-Semitism on the left and off-topic foreign policy issues,” reported NPR.

Republicans do not wish to defend white supremacists, but they feel enough kinship with them to treat them as political allies and to consider measures directed against them as a shared threat. The way you can tell Republicans are soft on white-supremacist terrorism is that white-supremacist terrorism is a partisan issue.

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[RedFred]

So why do you love him so much?

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by RedFred

So why do you love him so much?

Brassmonkey hates Mexican/South American immigrants, he sees them as competition to blacks being the top minority, and even though Obama deported more Mexicans at this time in his presidency than Trump has brassmonkey feels that Trump's hate for Mexicans is an admirable trait.

[RedFred]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Brassmonkey hates Mexican/South American immigrants, he sees them as competition to blacks being the top minority, and even though Obama deported more Mexicans at this time in his presidency than Trump has brassmonkey feels that Trump's hate for Mexicans is an admirable trait.

Trump supporters are like Turkeys that support Thanksgiving.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Brassmonkey hates Mexican/South American immigrants, he sees them as competition to blacks being the top minority, and even though Obama deported more Mexicans at this time in his presidency than Trump has brassmonkey feels that Trump's hate for Mexicans is an admirable trait.

what??? you need to logout for a while... illegals coming here and living under the grid is a problem. that is going to be phased out. hate or love trump he has the keys to the castle.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

Last week, President Trump repeated his absurd claim that he had never called the Nazi protesters who descended on Charlottesville in 2017 “very fine people.” On Saturday, yet another white-supremacist attack, on a synagogue in California, demonstrated the point that Trump and his allies wish to obscure: Right-wing terrorism is a more extreme version of Trump’s own political style. It draws inspiration from his ideas and some measure of protection from his political power.

Conservatives have long denied any links whatsoever between the brand of white supremacy represented by Nazis or the Ku Klux Klan and Republican-style conservatism. Conservative books like Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning and Dinesh D’Souza’s The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left have tried, absurdly, to identify these movements with the left side of the ideological spectrum.

The rise of Donald Trump has made this strained argument preposterous. Trump is not a white supremacist; if I showed you a block of text from one of his speeches side by side with a speech by David Duke, you would be able to tell the difference. But Trump’s rhetoric has excited and mobilized white supremacists because it teases the same theories that they make explicitly. Trump paints unauthorized immigrants as bloodthirsty rapists and murderers and touts their arrival as part of a geopolitical conspiracy to demographically transform the United States.

“A lot of people say” the caravan he hyped was funded by George Soros, Trump suggested last fall. (Trump favorite Lou Dobbs is one of the people who was saying this.) Trump’s closing campaign ad railed against “a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities,” juxtaposing this inflammatory claim over images of Soros and other Jewish figures.

The message is surely lost on the vast majority of Trump’s voters, but not on the white-supremacist movement. The shooters in New Zealand, Pittsburgh, and California all articulated this nativist theory in their manifestos.

To be sure, Trump formally denounces terrorist attacks on Jewish and Muslim worshippers. But he is not very good at masking the difference between those condemnations he offers grudgingly and those that have real passion behind them. When asked last month if he considered white-supremacist terror a growing threat, he demurred, “I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems, I guess.” Trump portrays white supremacists as a tiny force disconnected from politics. In contrast to his rhetoric about ISIS or other Islamist terrorism, which he insists must be labelled Islamic, Trump shrinks from placing white-supremacist terror in its ideological context. Just a handful of crazy nuts with big problems.

Some apologists ascribe the president’s reticence to mere stubbornness: Trump resents being pushed into a corner by the media, they say, and so he refuses to back down from any statement. The problem with this theory is that a certain softness about white-supremacist terror is official Republican doctrine.

In 2009, the Department of Homeland Security wrote a classified report highlighting the dangers of right-wing domestic terrorism. The report outraged conservatives by predicting, accurately, that the election of a black president would stoke far-right violent extremism. One hook Republicans used to discredit the report was its claim that white supremacists would target service members and law enforcement for recruitment, which they claimed was a slur against veterans.

The right’s primary objection to the report was in the link it posited between violent extremism on the one hand and the backlash against Obama and the federal government on the other. “It’s no small coincidence that Napolitano’s agency – referring to Homeland Security director Janet Napolitano – “disseminated the assessment just a week before the nationwide April 15 Tax Day Tea Party protests,” argued Michelle Malkin. The Drudge Report hyped the story with a banner warning, “She Is Watching You.” John Boehner insisted Napolitano “owes the American people an explanation for why she has abandoned using the term ‘terrorist’ to describe those, such as al Qaeda, who are plotting overseas to kill innocent Americans, while her own Department is using the same term to describe American citizens who disagree with the direction Washington Democrats are taking our nation.”

This episode took place at a time when Republicans were committed to presenting the tea party as a movement of principled deficit hawks sincerely concerned about inflation and debt-financed outlays. Yet their backlash against the Homeland Security paper reflected their recognition of a political affinity between their brand of anti-Obama panic and the violent kind identified by the department. The paper did not make the connection between tea-party protests and paranoid or violent extremism; Republicans drew the connection themselves.

The dynamic has only intensified in the Trump era. At a hearing on white-supremacist terrorism earlier this month, Republicans kept derailing the conversation. “Every time Democrats talked about President Trump’s anti-immigrant remarks, or how government agencies should do more to fight the spread of white nationalism, Republicans pivoted to criticism of identity politics, anti-Semitism on the left and off-topic foreign policy issues,” reported NPR.

Republicans do not wish to defend white supremacists, but they feel enough kinship with them to treat them as political allies and to consider measures directed against them as a shared threat. The way you can tell Republicans are soft on white-supremacist terrorism is that white-supremacist terrorism is a partisan issue.

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"Republicans do not wish to defend white supremacists, but they feel enough kinship with them to treat them as political allies and to consider measures directed against them as a shared threat. The way you can tell Republicans are soft on white-supremacist terrorism is that white-supremacist terrorism is a partisan issue."

[OneHungLo]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

, and even though Obama deported more Mexicans at this time in his presidency than Trump

He didn't tho. This has been explained to you numerous times. He tagged them and set them free and required them to show up for their deportation/ asylum hearing. 92% did not. So he effectively let them in flood in.

[OneHungLo]

And the guy who shot that women in the synagogue HATES TRUMP.
Again, bladewire knows this.

[RedFred]

Originally Posted by OneHungLo

He didn't tho. This has been explained to you numerous times. He tagged them and set them free and required them to show up for their deportation/ asylum hearing. 92% did not. So he effectively let them in flood in.

Is it even possible to go 20 minutes with you lying?


https://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/mo...border-claims/

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by OneHungLo

He didn't tho. This has been explained to you numerous times. He tagged them and set them free and required them to show up for their deportation/ asylum hearing. 92% did not. So he effectively let them in flood in.

Why do you lie?

you just bragged here the other day about Trump releasing thousands of illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities!

Trump is the king of catch and release!!!

[RedFred]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Why do you lie?

you just bragged here the other day about Trump releasing thousands of illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities!

Trump is the king of catch and release!!!

Trump made these idiots think lying is a good thing. OneDumbHo is such a lost soul he believes without the Bible he wouldn't be able to tell the difference between right and wrong.

[OneHungLo]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Why do you lie?

you just bragged here the other day about Trump releasing thousands of illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities!

Trump is the king of catch and release!!!

Why do we even have sanctuary cities in the first place?? Who is running them and allowing illegals to stay in the US costing us BILLIONS?

Care to answer?

[Mr Pheer]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

Please point out the White Supremacist in this photo.

All I see are people waving American flags and showing support for their President. Neither of those actions make anyone a Supremacist in anything.

A few of the people in the photo look like they could be of Latino origin. I'm sure they wouldn't appreciate being called White Supremacists.

And if the American flag has triggered you... then you're the one with the problem.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by OneHungLo

Why do we even have sanctuary cities in the first place?? Who is running them and allowing illegals to stay in the US costing us BILLIONS?

Care to answer?

Deflecting from the fact you lied instead of owning up to it

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by Mr Pheer

Please point out the White Supremacist in this photo.

All I see are people waving American flags and showing support for their President. Neither of those actions make anyone a Supremacist in anything.

A few of the people in the photo look like they could be of Latino origin. I'm sure they wouldn't appreciate being called White Supremacists.

And if the American flag has triggered you... then you're the one with the problem.

So you didn't read the article which had the photo at the top of the article.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Mr Pheer

Please point out the White Supremacist in this photo.

All I see are people waving American flags and showing support for their President. Neither of those actions make anyone a Supremacist in anything.

A few of the people in the photo look like they could be of Latino origin. I'm sure they wouldn't appreciate being called White Supremacists.

And if the American flag has triggered you... then you're the one with the problem.

the black and white gloves! the shirt on the left! the blue and white flag! these people end up doing things.

[OneHungLo]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Deflecting from the fact you lied instead of owning up to it

You and I BOTH know the answer. You can't even deny it. Why do you Dems love illegal aliens so much?

[bronco67]

Because those are his peeps yo.

[Mr Pheer]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

So you didn't read the article which had the photo at the top of the article.

So you can't identify them in the photo?

[Mr Pheer]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

the black and white gloves! the shirt on the left! the blue and white flag! these people end up doing things.

tread carefully here...
"these people"

[onwebcam]

Fake News..

Trump Didn't Call Neo-Nazis 'Fine People.' Here's Proof.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...of_139815.html

[bronco67]

Originally Posted by onwebcam

Fake News..

Trump Didn't Call Neo-Nazis 'Fine People.' Here's Proof.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...of_139815.html

I love how you post an opinion piece by a Trump fan as some kind of exoneration for saying what we all know he said and what he meant when he said it. And if he did say something to condemn white supremacy, I remember it looking like a hostage video.

Trump doesn't want to piss off any white supremacists because it would blow up a large block of his voters. He has to hang on to every scumbag who will vote for him.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by Mr Pheer

tread carefully here...
"these people"

He just told you the racist guys and you deflected.

It's not going to kill you to have an honest one-on-one discussion with people.

He pointed out the racists and you deflected as a protection response. How do you benefit protecting racists online?

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Mr Pheer

tread carefully here...
"these people"

they do not want to be ranked on their mind or goodwill towards man they base it on color! god i hope to see muslims attend these rallies

[GFED]

Originally Posted by Mr Pheer

So you can't identify them in the photo?

Must be the black dude in the hoodie.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

they do not want to be ranked on their mind or goodwill towards man they base it on color! god i hope to see muslims attend these rallies

↑↑↑ Truth

Men so weak they can't judge a man on his character aren't men, they are the minions of a false prophet.

[King Mark]

[pimpmaster9000]

trump does not care about illegals...trump does not care about china...trump only cares about getting $$$...you get told what you want to hear so you give him the vote and he gives you the dick...he is a professional dick giver

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by crucifissio

trump does not care about illegals...trump does not care about china...trump only cares about getting $$$...you get told what you want to hear so you give him the vote and he gives you the dick...he is a professional dick giver

he wants to be your leader for ever! fake elections while he remains in power! elect his new puppet!