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The Republican Party Moves From Family Values to White Nationalism
The migrant crisis signals an end to one era for the GOPand the terrifying start of a new one.
Alex Wagner
Jun 22, 2018
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The plight of these migrant families is wrenching, but it is also instructiverevealing a fundamental shift in the priorities of the Republican Party. Family values once defined the GOP, informing its embrace of the pro-life platform (protecting unborn children) and its resistance to marriage equality (the union between a husband and wife was sacrosanct). Conservative lawyers led the campaign to censor rap lyrics, and evangelicals condemned extramarital affairsconservative foot soldiers, for a time, marched under the banner of protecting children and preserving the institution of the family.
But in the Trump era, it is clear these values no longer define the movement. Family values would never have permitted the separation of babies from their mothers and fathers, the incarceration of toddlers, the placement of grade schoolers in shelters with histories of sexual and physical abuse. Nor would family values have allowed the disregard of families already separated: There is no plan in place to reunite the 2,342 children who have been taken from their parents. The former director of ICE, John Sandweg, told my colleague Priscilla Alvarez that it is entirely possible these children and their parents will remain permanently separated. But to hear it in conservative news outlets, such concernwhat will happen to these children now?is a tedium of leftist whining.
Family values, further, would not permit policies likely to ensure these families will be kept apart: In early May, the administration announced its intention to begin screening sponsor families for their citizenship statusthis includes extended family seeking to take in immigrant children who have been separated from their mothers and fathers (such screening would include biometric data, like fingerprinting). To place the specter of deportation over an immigrant family is to practically guarantee that its members will remain in the shadows, leaving unaccompanied children to find a home elsewherelikely in foster care, with strangers. It is to ensure that the family unit, once broken, remains broken.
Trump has instead redefined his party around white nationalism, which deems brown-skinned men, women, and children of degraded humanityand therefore absent any inherent value and unworthy of protection. You could see that this week as the president compared immigrant men, women, and children to vermin (they want to infest our country, he tweeted). You could see it when his deputy, Stephen Miller, painted migrants as menacesnot candidates for asylum, but rather incarceration:
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/the-gop-has-chosen-white-nationalism-over-family-values/563429/?utm_source=fbb
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)as republicans made stinkingly clear when they chose Dirty Donny* to be their republican family-values role model.
* aka repulican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Which is the epitome of the ugliest souled man. The unaccountable ogre. The hate machine. The horrifically self-loving white freak elitist wretch.
And Republicans, in their greed and power obsessions not only allow it, they promote it.
Do everything to bring them down.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Their tag line has varied through the years, but the underlying message has been about Ive got mine and you are out of luck.
"I've got mine and I deserve it. You don't." The "You" often referring to people of a different race or nationality. I think the whole "family values" hype was really referring to "white families", a subtle dog whistle.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Image of the Leave it to Beaver nuclear family, which in reality exists only in a small segment of society. It was white, middle class, with the wife at home vacuuming in pearls and fixing dinner and of course wanted to maintain the status quo which means voting republican.
PatSeg
(47,284 posts)exactly what politicians mean when they say "family values".
brush
(53,743 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Have sold this country out to russia and putin , and have become puppets for putin instead of protecting this country's national security, while trump again like he did with NK makes claims he's saving the world and us, but its again the opposite of the truth, just watch how quickly he gives putin what he wants then claims its good for us, all lies. This election will be undermined again for trump , and is the only way they can keep enough kgop in office with , or they're screwed. That's why he won't admit they're our enemy, and instead he wants people to accept a terrorist murdering dictator is our friend.
dalton99a
(81,406 posts)Tikki
(14,549 posts)The so called party of fiscal responsibility exited the stage some time back...
think: reagan
Tikki
JI7
(89,241 posts)what they hid behind. But it was all exposed with their support for trumo.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)Seriously, they've been working on becoming what they are as far back as Nixon. But they really doubled their efforts beginning with Reagan.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)BadGimp
(4,012 posts)and of course #PutinWinsAgain
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Initech
(100,043 posts)One thing that this administration did do was bring those issues to the forefront and now we can see that wretched party for what it is.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)But having a Black POTUS, changing demographics and now Trump with his blatant bigotry, they are getting more blatant themselves. They are desperate to erase the writing on the wall.