US politics' post-shame era: how Republicans became the party of hate

[mysteryowl]

US politics’ post-shame era: how Republicans became the party of hate

Far from entering the midterms as the party of tolerance, diversity and sincerity, critics say, the Republican party has shown itself to be the opposite.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/23/republican-party-hate-racism-antisemitism-trump

Perhaps nothing captures the charge more eloquently than a three-word post that appeared on the official Twitter account for Republicans on the House of Representatives’ judiciary committee – ranking member Jim Jordan – on 6 October. It said, simply and strangely: “Kanye. Elon. Trump.”

I know we know this, but it is so nice to see a headline like this in the media thanks to the Guardian.

[dalton99a]

1. Unapologetically, proudly, enthusiastically

The examples are becoming increasingly difficult to downplay or ignore. Earlier this month Tommy Tuberville, a Republican senator for Alabama, told an election rally in Nevada that Democrats support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people because “they think the people that do the crime are owed that”. The remark was widely condemned for stereotyping African Americans as people committing crimes.

And Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congresswoman from Georgia, echoed the rightwing “great replacement” theory when she told a rally in Arizona: “Joe Biden’s 5 million illegal aliens are on the verge of replacing you, replacing your jobs and replacing your kids in school and, coming from all over the world, they’re also replacing your culture.”

Indeed, Trump did more than anyone to turn the 2013 autopsy on its head. In his first run for president, he referred to Mexicans as criminals, drug dealers and rapists and pledged to build a border wall and impose a Muslim ban. Opponents suggest that he liberated Republicans to say the unsayable, rail against so-called political correctness and give supporters the thrill of transgression.

Antjuan Seawright, a senior adviser to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said: “He has been the creator of the permission slip and the validator of the permission slip. For many of them, he is their trampoline to jump even further with their right wing red meat racial rhetoric.”

[Thunderbeast]

2. This is NOT new.

Reagan launched his presidential bid in Philadelphia, Mississippi...where three civil rights workers were murdered by the KKK for registering black voters.

Nixon ran on a "Law and Order" campaign that was a thinly veiled attack on urban blacks.

Lee Atwater introduced the country to Willie Horton's revolving door to message that George H.W. Bush would protect us from "them".

Listening to Rachael Maddow's "ULTRA" (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra) tells the story about how real Nazis nearly toppled the democracy in 1940.

Grievance, hate, racism, nativism, and antisemitism have been the pillars of the Republican Party for generations. It is the tool used by the captains of industry to make poor people vote against their interests.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Addled bigot, robber baron, total con man .equals. Kanye, Elon and tRump. . . . . nt