The Age of Trump: White Nationalist terrorist carplows into counter-protestors

This week shows Trump was always about race
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...was-always-about-race/?utm_term=.5eb1e33681d6

.....at the heart of Trump’s campaign and the center of the Fox News operation, which incubated a Trump-ready electorate, has always been an appeal to white grievance, which Trump and Bannon were all too happy to gin up with fables about immigrants stealing whites’ jobs, African American killing fields in big cities, murderous illegal immigrants and, quite blatantly, an appeal to Southern infatuation with the Confederate myth of the “lost cause.” Trump’s vilifying all Muslims with a broad brush and his description of Mexicans as murderers were not incidental to his campaign; they were its distinguishing features.

"Race-baiting ideas. Anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas … all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the ‘Alt-Right.’”

Alt-Right is short for “Alternative Right.”,.. a loosely organized movement, mostly online, that “rejects mainstream conservatism, promotes nationalism and views immigration and multiculturalism as threats to white identity.”

The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the “Alt-Right.” A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party.

This is part of a broader story — the rising tide of hard-line, right-wing nationalism around the world. . . . Of course there’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment. But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.

On David Duke’s radio show the other day, the mood was jubilant.

“We appear to have taken over the Republican Party,” one white supremacist said.

Duke laughed. There’s still more work to do, he said.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...was-always-about-race/?utm_term=.5eb1e33681d6
This is part of a broader story — the rising tide of hard-line, right-wing nationalism around the world. . . . Of course there’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment. But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.

 

I have acknowledged others in the situation besides Trump, I'm not blind to the radical lefts role in Charlottesville. vball, surely you see how Trump's comments emboldened the supremacist hate groups and inflamed the violent left. Trump had the opportunity to do some good, but he fucked it away. Winston posted a video of Ronald Reagon speaking about racial divide,.. too bad Trump didn't strike that tone,.. he was shit in comparison.

Though Trump could've helped, the real problem is, radical extremists

fucking extremists

You said,.. The tone of this country has been going in this direction for quite some time. To lay it all at the feet of trump is convenient but not exactly insightful,..

Most here point at Obama, I'll take their word for it,.. but Trump exploited that pain, he seized on that and used it to get elected,.. but he's a false god, he has no solutions only harmful rhetoric,.. he's not a statesman, he's more like a used car salesman,.. a shyster. I want to be fair, but I don't trust him, I don't like him, I don't think he should be President.