The hate behind the Don's success

[pnwmom]

This was written a couple months ago, but it is as true today.

http://www.thenation.com/article/the-hate-behind-donald-trumps-success/


Today those views and, quite possibly, many of those same people, are capturing the GOP from the inside. This is the bile now surging up out of the Grand Old Party’s base, drawn to a candidate who, with his venomous statements on Muslims, Mexicans, demonstrators who speak out against him, and anyone else who disagrees with him, gives a nod and a wink to their assorted bigotries. This is the reductio ad absurdum end-point of the party’s endless pandering to Tea Party bigots, to birthers, to gun-toting militias, and other zealots.

When Trump calls for the summary execution of terrorists using bullets dipped in pigs’ blood, or when he says that he wants to punch a protester in the face and longs for the days when you could send a heckler out on a stretcher, he speaks to this audience directly. They love him not despite his over-the-top rhetoric but because of it.

SNIP

In his victory speech yesterday evening, Trump announced that “we’re going to get greedy for the United States. We’re going to grab and grab and grab. We’re going to make America great again.” It is the language of Lebensraum. “You know, I love the country. I love the country. We’re going to have our borders nice and strong. We’re going to build the wall. Mexico is going to pay for the wall. It’s going to happen. They’ll be very happy about it. They’re going to be thrilled to be paying for the wall.” It is the language of the arm-twister, the gangster-extortionist.

[teamster633]

1. "You have a really nice country down here...

...it would be a shame if something happened to it."

[chowder66]

2. I'm beginning to think that this guy is feeding off of internet comments.

I would not be surprised that he has teams of people going on the internet looking for the "most incredibly popular, most highly rated ever in the history of the internet" anti-anybody posts...... and riffs off of them.... feeding the frenzy of sad and lonely people who "get him".

It's a disgusting display of mirroring and yet it's working.

What a nightmare.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. Trump fans feed off racial/ religious hate of Fox News; He panders to hate, like Hitler did.

[chowder66]

4. He panders to ignorance but I think it is being 'poached' from forums somewhere.

Just a thought.

[chowder66]

5. Slate did an article that explains what he's doing a bit better than my assumption

I just did a dig in google and found this

excerpt;


"What is the secret to Trump’s Twitter success? He’s cemented his reputation as a modern social media master by relying on age-old dick moves. Whether he realizes it or not—and he’s tweeted that he has “a very high IQ,” so I’m assuming he does—his most Trump-ian tweets manage to hit upon all three of Aristotle’s modes of persuasion: logos (the appeal to logic), ethos (the appeal to credibility), and pathos (the appeal to emotion)."


http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/02/donald_trump_is_the_best_at_twitter_here_s_why.html

[pampango]

6. The right's (and Donald's) hate makes the selling of scapegoats easy.

We are not responsible for our problems. It is THEIR fault.

This time the right wing's scapegoat is not Jews (although anti-Semites are quite happy with Trump). It is Mexicans, Muslims, Chinese. Take your pick. It is THEIR fault we are not WINNING.