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This is a great explanation for why trumpers exist. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
OP
And that was all just for the extra percentage he needed to get over the line.
Baked Potato
Sep 2020
#8
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)1. Interesting. I read a post yesterday from a DUer mentioning the flag thing.
How it seemed a bit odd and no other president had supporters displaying flags with their name like they are now. It does make sense.
Nevilledog
(51,302 posts)3. They do like their flags...Nazi, confederate and trump ones.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)5. I was seriously considering adding a line to my post to conflate the three.
Yes, they are they same type of people.
dalton99a
(81,708 posts)2. More Than Ever, Trump Casts Himself as the Defender of White America
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/politics/trump-race-2020-election.html
More Than Ever, Trump Casts Himself as the Defender of White America
Presenting himself as a warrior against identity politics, the president has increasingly made appeals to the grievances of white supporters a centerpiece of his re-election campaign.
By Peter Baker
Published Sept. 6, 2020
WASHINGTON After a summer when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets protesting racial injustice against Black Americans, President Trump has made it clear over the last few days that, in his view, the countrys real race problem is bias against white Americans.
Just days after returning from Kenosha, Wis., where he staunchly backed law enforcement and did not mention the name of Jacob Blake, the Black man shot seven times in the back by the police, Mr. Trump issued an order on Friday to purge the federal government of racial sensitivity training that his White House called divisive, anti-American propaganda.
The president then spent much of the weekend tweeting about his action, presenting himself as a warrior against identity politics. This is a sickness that cannot be allowed to continue, he wrote of such programs. Please report any sightings so we can quickly extinguish! He reposted a tweet from a conservative outlet hailing his order: Sorry liberals! How to be Anti-White 101 is permanently cancelled!
Not in generations has a sitting president so overtly declared himself the candidate of white America. While Mr. Trumps campaign sought to temper the culture war messaging at the Republican National Convention last month by showcasing Black and Hispanic supporters who denied that he is a racist, the president himself has increasingly made appeals to the grievances of white supporters a centerpiece of his campaign to win a second term.
More Than Ever, Trump Casts Himself as the Defender of White America
Presenting himself as a warrior against identity politics, the president has increasingly made appeals to the grievances of white supporters a centerpiece of his re-election campaign.
By Peter Baker
Published Sept. 6, 2020
WASHINGTON After a summer when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets protesting racial injustice against Black Americans, President Trump has made it clear over the last few days that, in his view, the countrys real race problem is bias against white Americans.
Just days after returning from Kenosha, Wis., where he staunchly backed law enforcement and did not mention the name of Jacob Blake, the Black man shot seven times in the back by the police, Mr. Trump issued an order on Friday to purge the federal government of racial sensitivity training that his White House called divisive, anti-American propaganda.
The president then spent much of the weekend tweeting about his action, presenting himself as a warrior against identity politics. This is a sickness that cannot be allowed to continue, he wrote of such programs. Please report any sightings so we can quickly extinguish! He reposted a tweet from a conservative outlet hailing his order: Sorry liberals! How to be Anti-White 101 is permanently cancelled!
Not in generations has a sitting president so overtly declared himself the candidate of white America. While Mr. Trumps campaign sought to temper the culture war messaging at the Republican National Convention last month by showcasing Black and Hispanic supporters who denied that he is a racist, the president himself has increasingly made appeals to the grievances of white supporters a centerpiece of his campaign to win a second term.
Nevilledog
(51,302 posts)4. Bingo.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)7. LMAO !!! Was this photo taken in "Dork City"? nt
lame54
(35,359 posts)6. And a capitol T to burn instead of a lower case t
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)8. And that was all just for the extra percentage he needed to get over the line.
All the rest of the Republicans are fine with that.