Bless their little fascist hearts

[Soph0571]

Racists whining that voting for a fascist, white supremacists, ethno-nationalist somehow means that everyone else sees them as the racists they are is peak MAGA. Look at them thinking we are not going to label them as they act. Silly rabbits. Anyway they should own their nasty, be proud of it as they attend white supremacist cult rallies of exclusion and hate, and if they don't want too, tough shit... they must ever be shunned as the fascist democracy stealing supporters that they are.

[The Wizard]

1. Denial

is not a river in Egypt.

[Walleye]

2. I thought they took it as a compliment when they were called bigots

[uponit7771]

8. me too!!

[paleotn]

17. Seriously. Isn't that just part of being deplorable?

[ck4829]

22. Right? What happened to "I'm so happy we have a president who is not politically correct"?

[lunatica]

63. They do keep doubling down on their hate talk don't they?

And they wonder how we know what they are.

[Tadpole Raisin]

3. Haha - good one!

[GoCubsGo]

4. And, then there's that whole "wall" thing...

They only want it built on the southern border, where all the brown people come in, but not on the northern border, where it's mostly white people. And, the source, along with Europe, of more "illegals" than what comes up from the south.

[Champp]

7. What did the Republicans do with all the $ Mexico paid for the wall?

Oh, wait. No. You mean the Republicans were lying about that, too? OMG. I am shocked, shocked I tell you.

[geardaddy]

42. Exactly.

How many European tourists or students overstay their visas for years?

[Tracer]

5. Oh No. Not another article about the poor misunderstood MAGA idiots.

The writers try to put some intelligent research into their articles, but all we get is more denial, more stupidity, more nastiness --- and on and on.

Give it up!!!

[uponit7771]

6. Why?! Why don't they proudly wear their racism like Bannon said they should ?! Weird

[AZLD4Candidate]

53. "But you're the racist for claiming I'm racist because only racist say people are racist."

[uponit7771]

68. +1, I've seen this too; just redefine racism to something else like calling out racism

[Beartracks]

69. Standard GOP M.O., like: Do dangerously partisan things, and when Dems try to fix it...

... accuse Dems of being partisan.

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[Mr. Ected]

9. If it smells like a turd, it looks like a turd, it sounds like a turd, it tastes like a turd

Then you're looking at a MAGAt.

[gab13by13]

10. I live among them in central Pa.

and every one I know is a racist.

[Soph0571]

11. Well, you know what they say

Not all racists voted for Trump, but all those who voted for Trump are racists....

[paleotn]

21. Along with its corollary.....

Not all Republicans are racist, but all racists are Republicans.

There was a time when that wasn't true, and Dems had their share of racists. Not any more. Not since the great, political sorting that began in the 70's, hit full steam in the 90's and completed the party transformation when Obama become President.

[2Gingersnaps]

37. I have long suspected that the very heart of racism is economic, not skin color,

tribalism definitely, but economic anxiety at it's core. Like the extremely profane Lyndon Johnson said, “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” Yet another one of those Bible things utterly overlooked by it's biggest fans, "money is the root of all evil."

[paleotn]

41. A big part of it, certainly.....

Maintaining slavery in the face of "All men are created equal" and then literally fighting to the death over it was all about money. And class in a rigid, antebellum society. Freed slaves competing with poor whites for scraps of economic opportunity continued to drive it into the 20th century and beyond. The great irony was and is that poor people, no matter the color of their skin, have far more in common with each other than the rich they long to emulate.

[geardaddy]

44. Actually, the quote is "love of money is the root of all evil"

Which makes even more sense.

[OMGWTF]

46. The full quote is: The love of money is the root of all evil.

[soldierant]

59. The love of money

Money itself is morally neutral - just a means of exchange. It's the greed that's evil.

A mystery writer who worked in the 60's and70's said through one of her chractrers, "Cupidity and stupidity" account for just about all crime. A catchy little phrase.

[Hortensis]

12. It would be very helpful to not mistake all conservatives for MAGA bigots.

To keep an invitation open for more to join in opposition to what's happening on the right.

A lot of conservative people believe they're not racist. Social scientists may not draw the line so clearly, but a pre-tRumpism study I read about found that that's essentially true for these conservatives -- they're not, but they are less outraged by racism. The negative reaction is real, but not to as strong a degree as among liberals with our very strongly egalitarian ethos.

I don't know what trumpism-era studies are showing but, previously, overt displays of racism reliably repelled and were rejected by these conservatives. I've seen this here in the south, among people who disapprove just as strongly as any others I've known.

That's probably why tRump doesn't behave much worse than he does to feed his more rabid following. It's not the Democrats' reaction to his calling neonazis "very fine people" that made him cut way back on that, but reaction from the nicer right.

[gab13by13]

18. OK, maybe my statement was too absolute,

there are some very rich people (not conservative) who aren't racist and voted for Trump. The last conservative Republican may have been Teddy Roosevelt. So when it comes to non-racist rich people having to decide between a Democratic candidate and a fascist candidate, I'm betting the rich guy votes fascist. If people who watched an attempted coup on TV still need coddling to vote Democratic they have been in a coma for 4 years. Maybe we can sway those people over to our side.

[Hortensis]

27. You're horribly right about the cohesiveness on the right against us,

of course. That's always been a conservative strength, or in this case just characteristic since it threatens to destroy them also. The general notion bought into seems to be that the dangers of liberal extremism going way too far require all hands to the pumps.

MSNBC and CNN have a bunch of rational conservatives working every day to sway people like themselves into breaking away to fight what's happening on the right. I suggest Dwight Eisenhower as a moderate and avowedly progressive conservative, by both nature and politics. He'd fit right in with them.

[Slammer]

67. Coolidge FTW

Teddy Roosevelt was famed for being a progressive Republican.

The last conservative Republican president was Calvin Coolidge, IMO.

"Conservative" being defined as a small-government conservative who genuinely believed that the powers of the national government are limited by the Constitution...and who governed that way.

Republicans at the time were the party of civil rights so you can't really measure a modern Democrat's personal definition of "conservative" when it comes to race relations and map that onto politicians who existed a century ago.

[paleotn]

25. True. I know some.

All but a couple wouldn't vote for Trump if you held a gun to their heads. Some didn't vote in 2020 as a sort of protest. Some "held their noses" and voted for Biden. None would be considered overtly racist, but all refuse to believe that they benefit from our institutions that include embedded racism. Raising too much of a ruckus over that would upset the apple cart. A system that benefits them personally.

[xxqqqzme]

29. There were a few.

I know 2 Democrats who changed their party registration when President Obama became the nominee.

[Traildogbob]

13. They are Not racist

They wear their favorite black man jersey during football season. “Perform for me boy, then get out of my sight after season ends”.

[progressoid]

61. A lot of them aren't doing that anymore either because of

Kaepernick and all those others that dare to take a knee.

[Traildogbob]

65. Oh yea.

Can’t have em get uppity and out of place. Guess those ball fans are in MAGA 45 jerseys.

[blueinredohio]

14. I've never had to wear a shirt to show I'm not racist.

[Brother Mythos]

15. Openly fascist, racist, traitor MAGAts should have the guts to really own it. They should ...

be flashing FASCISTS FOR TRUMP, RACISTS FOR TRUMP, and TRAITORS FOR TRUMP t-shirts.

[AZLD4Candidate]

45. "Hey! Stop bigot shaming! How dare you do that!"

[Brother Mythos]

57. I forgot to add a t-shirt that reads TFG IS MY STD. In this case, STD also means ...

"Sociopath Traitor Douche."

[jaxexpat]

16. Me like!

[DownriverDem]

19. My fear

That the voters will vote for the repubs because change is not happening fast enough. That is when I know we will be doomed.

[KG]

20. WE'RE NOT RACISTS!

?cb=1531348337

[AZLD4Candidate]

48. But you're cancelling them

[Farmer-Rick]

23. Seems there is a large variety of racist in MAGAt land

You got your run of the mill KKK fascist. They hate everyone except white, male, Protestant, abled, heterosexual, authoritarians. Anything outside that is concentration camp worthy. Even white women and very "respectable" white men are hated just because they don't hate the people the racists hate. If you think about it, your run of the mill KKK fascist has a very small world of "very fine" people.

Then you have Nazis. They are very similar to your KKK haters except they reserve more hate for Jewish people.

Then you got all sorts of degrees of Nazis and KKK fascists. Some don't even hate people of color or Jews. They just don't want them around their homes, country, family or jobs. These are the ones who claim they're not racist. But they wouldn't care if people of color or Jews were rounded up and put into concentration camps. As long as the others aren't around them, they are fine.

All different ways to hate other people. Then add some religion to it and you got a steaming pile of hate mongers. All done so the filthy rich can get more filthy.

[marble falls]

24. "We're not racists, it's just that PoC aren't grateful and don't know their place." ...

GOP race policy condensed.

[AZLD4Candidate]

49. "Why are you trying to start problems? Not everything is about race."

[paleotn]

26. And the Nazis used weasel words to hide their true feelings about Jewish people....

even while they were gassing them. Final Solution?

[calimary]

28. "We're all tired of being called bigots"? Too damn bad.

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That’s just too damn bad. If it walks like a bigot, talks like a bigot, dresses like a bigot (hint: the infamous “MAGA hat” ), and acts like a bigot, then maybe - just maybe - it’s A BIGOT.

On edit -
Btw - I searched for that Atlantic article. The one I found was titled “We’re all tired of being called racists.” But the basic point seemed to be the same.

[AZLD4Candidate]

30. Stop being racist, sexist, homphobic, xenophobic, fascist, statist, ethnocentric bigots

and people will stop calling you these things.

Imagine how often this simple solution eludes them.

[Hotler]

31. Fuck your feelings. ......nt

[AZLD4Candidate]

50. "But I thought liberals were tolerant of all ideas and views. Hypocrites."

[liberalla]

32. Feeling a bit sensitive, are we?

[Wounded Bear]

33. I'm tired of playing 'nice' to the willfully ignorant and intentionally rude and mean...

If the shoe fits, I'll kick you in the ass with it.

Don't like being called racist? Obviously you have me confused with someone who gives a shit. You want sympathy, it's in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.

[heckles65]

34. Oh man, DON'T get me started

That's like the "economic anxiety" crap that was so big in the media about four years ago.

[bdamomma]

35. Such small brains they have

if any brains at all. It's called Cognitive Dissonance if they believed in the truth their brains would blow up. You can't fix stupid.

[KS Toronado]

36. It's high time our congress people started using the term FASCIST

whenever they're talking to or about the other side of the aisle.
They own it, let 'em try to defend it.

[AZLD4Candidate]

52. "All you liberals have is name calling."

[KS Toronado]

58. Learned it from watching FQX nonsense

Try it sometime, you could use a good brainwashing!



good luck getting elected.

[AZLD4Candidate]

70. Sorry, my brain is clean enough

Let the ones I know will never vote for me get their brains washed.

[DemUnleashed]

38. Well...

Well, if the shoe fits...!

[lambchopp59]

39. Birtherism

Brought out the racism in these loons unquestionably.
Denial that white supremacist rants in half a dozen forms was the basis of TFG's rise to power to begin with, astonishingly hypocritical. I'll likely never know now whether RWNJ's on the embarrassingly racist, all to white-proud side of my lineage will have survived the pandemic. Considering some of the discriminatory disowning behavior some of them cut off all ties with my "mixed blood" brothers and I long ago now, I'd have to search the entire haystack to find the needle representing how much I care.

[SamKnause]

40. I don't give a flying fuck about your feelings.

You are uninformed, misinformed, ignorant, and anti American.

[Stuart G]

43. Stupid is still.."stupid, and Racist....is still "RACIST"

[AZLD4Candidate]

51. "Typical liberal. You have nothing so you personally attack me, not the issues."

[cilla4progress]

47. Fuck

those guys

[Stuart G]

54. Trump is NOT A RACIST...AND...Hitler did NOT HATE Jews either...

[bucolic_frolic]

55. I only hope there is such a thing as Peak MAGA

2024 Grifter Redux and Insurrection 2 seem like possibilities

[Dukkha]

56. No, those very fine people aren't racist

[Grokenstein]

60. Direct links to the tweet and the article in TheAtlantic

Link to tweet

The article's from 2019, and "bigots" in the headline is actually "racists," but it's still relevant today and frankly "bigots" is more accurate; they don't exclusively hate people based on race, they will scramble to find ANY excuse.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/trump-supporters-called-racists/595333/

[Moebym]

62. Well, if they hadn't been coddled all this time

By the media and politicians from both sides who wanted their precious votes...

We wouldn't be having this problem, would we?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

64. Liz Cheney on 60 Minutes said Dems are anti-semetic.

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First I wondered how she came up with that. Then realized it's likely due to our 2 or 3 Muslim members of Congress. Is there much else to that proclamation? Leslie Stahl didn't question it.

[Marcuse]

66. The self proclaimed racists say the Republicans are racists.