Molly Jong-Fast: The GOP Is Surely Going to Let Donald Trump Slide Over White Supremacist Dinner

[Celerity]

The usual suspects—Romney, Cheney, Christie—criticized the former president for dining with Nick Fuentes and Kanye West, while McCarthy excused him, MTG jabbed the media, and Fox News swept the ugly episode under the rug.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/donald-trump-nick-fuentes-kanye-west-gop

https://archive.ph/r0C5l



“I don’t think anybody should be spending any time with Nick Fuentes,” House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday outside the White House. McCarthy, however, stopped short of criticizing former president Donald Trump, whose support he surely needs to become Speaker in January. His comments came one week after Trump had dinner with Fuentes, a prominent white supremacist, and Kanye West, the rapper and designer whose partnership with Adidas was recently canceled after he made antisemitic remarks. “I think President Trump came out four times and condemned him and didn’t know who he was,” McCarthy said of Fuentes. When a reporter pointed out that Trump did not condemn him, McCarthy, personally, condemned Fuentes’s ideology, while saying that Trump “knew who Kanye West is,” but “didn’t know who Fuentes is.”

In the grand tradition of being a coward in GOP Congressional leadership, McCarthy made excuses for Trump, just as Paul Ryan did for Trump after the Charlottesville riots, when he said, “I think he made comments that were much more morally ambiguous, much more confusing.” You’d think that disavowing a white supremacist and Holocaust denier would be easy, since outright antisemitism isn’t officially embraced by the GOP. But Republicans have had trouble doing it. It’s very clear what Fuentes is. He’s indefensible; he’s compared himself to Hitler, used a racist slur for Black people, is pro-dictatorship, and recently told his livestream watchers, “I want this country to have Catholic media, Catholic Hollywood, Catholic government. I want this to be a Catholic-occupied government, not a Jewish-occupied government.” He subscribes to white nationalist ideas like the great replacement theory, calling it the “great replacement reality.”

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Yet more than a week since breaking bread at Mar-a-Lago, Trump still hasn’t condemned Fuentes. Trump responded to the initial criticism by blaming West, “a seriously troubled man,” for bringing Fuentes, whom he said he “didn’t know.” As The Guardian reported, “Trump ultimately made clear that he fundamentally did not want to criticize Fuentes—a product of his dislike of confrontation and his anxiety that it might antagonize a devoted part of his base—and became more entrenched in his obstinance the more he was urged to do so.” The Mar-a-Lago dinner reportedly included some strife, as West—who goes by Ye—says he asked Trump to join his 2024 campaign as vice president. (Trump was “perturbed” by the idea, Ye later said.) But perhaps the most telling moment of the dinner came when, according to The New York Times, Trump turned to others and declared that he liked Fuentes. “He gets me,” the former president reportedly said.

Perhaps one shouldn’t want to be gotten by a white supremacist? Perhaps being understood by a white supremacist is the kind of damning indictment to be avoided. But wait, there’s more! As a source told Axios, “There was a lot of fawning back and forth” between Trump and Fuentes. And West later released a video about the dinner, saying that Trump was “really impressed” with Fuentes and adding, “Unlike so many of the lawyers and so many people that he was left with on his 2020 campaign, [Fuentes is] actually a loyalist.” It seems Trump, who could very likely be the GOP’s 2024 presidential nominee, doesn’t want to alienate his base, no matter how base they may be. Remember, candidate Trump, in 2016, refused to disavow David Duke after the former KKK leader endorsed him. (“I don’t know anything about David Duke,” Trump told CNN at the time.) As president, Trump didn’t condemn Charlottesville’s neo-Nazis or the Proud Boys.

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[SoCalDavidS]

1. TFG's Fake Jewish Daughter Must Be So Proud nt

[IcyPeas]

2. Jared and ivanka took the money and ran.

[SoCalDavidS]

3. They Didn't Run That Far

They bought a house just down the road from Mar-A-Lago. They're going to try and distance themselves from the Stink that is TFG, by not being part of his '24 campaign, but they're still right there.

If they had any self respect as Jews, they would condemn their father's association with Anti-Semites like Fuentes & Ye, but they won't. Wouldn't want to get cut out of any Trust fund when he eventually kicks the bucket.

They're as much Phony Orthodox Jews as the Phony Evangelicals who claim to be religious, while being filled with hate and evil intent.

[tulipsandroses]

4. Why would they now? They have accepted every other racist thing he has done

Why is this the straw that broke the camel’s back?
Not “Good people on both sides” after a nazi drove his car into a crowd?

Not the original big lie. The birther lie

Not the Muslim ban?

Not stand back and stand by?

Not telling women of color to go back to where they come from?

Not shithole countries?

Not “Mexico sending rapists and killers?”

He’s been dining with Steve Bannon and Steven Miller. Why get upset now?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Imagine tv 'news' if Biden had a cozy little luncheon with Ye and Fuentes.

New York Times buried Trump’s dinner with Fuentes on page 20

CBS pushes Rudy Giuliani’s conspiracy theories

CNN does puff pieces on Casey DeSantis & town halls for Mike Pence

Tucker Carlson incites violence

The media is abetting fascism and laughing all the way to the bank, - Lindy Li tweet

[JohnnyRingo]

6. Molly is feeling especially wordy today.

But I love her style of writing. Not to mention the content.
Thanx for posting!