Trump’s push to amplify racism unnerves Republicans

[wvit1001]

Trump’s unyielding push to preserve Confederate history and the legacy of white domination, crystallized by his harsh denunciation of the racial justice movement Friday night at Mount Rushmore, has unnerved Republicans who have long enabled him but now fear losing power and forever associating their party with his racial animus.

Although amplifying racism and stoking culture wars have been mainstays of Trump’s public identity for decades, they have been particularly pronounced this summer as the president has reacted to the national reckoning over systemic discrimination by seeking to weaponize the anger and resentment of some white Americans for his own political gain.

Trump has left little doubt through his utterances the past few weeks that he sees himself not only as the Republican standard-bearer, but as leader of a modern grievance movement animated by civic strife and marked by calls for “white power,” the phrase chanted by one of his supporters in a video the president shared last weekend on Twitter. He later deleted the video but did not disavow its message.

Trump put his strategy to resuscitate his troubled reelection campaign by galvanizing white supporters on display Friday night under the chiseled granite gaze of four past presidents memorialized in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

He celebrated Independence Day with a dystopian speech in which he excoriated racial justice protesters as “evil” representatives of a “new far-left fascism” whose ultimate goal is “the end of America.”

Over the years, some Republicans have struggled to navigate Trump’s race baiting and, at times, outright racism, while others have rallied behind him. Bursts of indignation and frustration come and go, but have never resulted in a complete GOP break with the president.

In Richmond, the former capital of the Confederacy, a massive statue of Stonewall Jackson was dismantled to the cheers of onlookers and the ringing of church bells this week, and even in Mississippi, the state legislature voted to remove the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag.

On Capitol Hill, some Republicans fret — mostly privately to avoid his wrath — that Trump’s fixation on racial and other cultural issues leaves their party running against the currents of change. Coupled with the coronavirus pandemic and related economic crisis, these Republicans fear he is not only seriously impairing his reelection chances, but also jeopardizing the GOP Senate majority and its strength in the House.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/https:/www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-racism-white-nationalism-republicans/2020/07/04/2b0aebe6-bbaf-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html?arc404=true

[Local5th]

Well, that answers my question of what the dems pick up after covid-19 dies.

Racism.

[wvit1001]

try again local, that makes no sense at all

[seahooker]

you don't think all these protests, peaceful and ugly, don't amplify racism?

[wvit1001]

no.    but I'm sure they have you and you wp buddies all worked up into a lather hooker.

[omiaqt]

My State was a Slave State....Joe Biden
My State would have fought for the Confederacy, it we could have been closer...Joe Biden

[seahooker]

he sometimes claims Pennsylvania, which wasn't a slave state, but was on border with the Mason Dixon line. maybe he is not sure if he talks about Pennsylvania or Delaware? He is senile.

[wvit1001]

no real American could support the confederacy today.   The confederacy was based almost solely on the fight to keep slavery legal.   

[sine-qua-non]

no real American could support the confederacy today.


The confederacy was DemoncRats

No real American could support the DemoncRats today !


Agreed l


Real Americans also agree with Trumps Mt Rushmore speeck !

[Dan]

Trump’s unyielding push to preserve Confederate history and the legacy of white domination, crystallized by his harsh denunciation of the racial justice movement Friday night at Mount Rushmore, has unnerved Republicans

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Why?

fear losing power

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So what?  What’s the point of getting power if you don’t do the right things when you get power?

and forever associating their party with his racial animus (according to us liberal democrats)

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You can’t control what lies the democrats will use against you, so you might as well do what’s right.

[sine-qua-non]

He celebrated Independence Day with a accurate speech in which he excoriated racial justice protesters as “evil” representatives of a “new far-left fascism” whose ultimate goal is “the end of America.”


True I watch him do that


He also lauded our founders values, history and Culture that made America great

[omiaqt]

I wonder if most Americans know the racist history of the Democrat Party and how they maintain that racist element to this day?

Blacks will not truly be free from the bondage of slavery, until they free themselves from the Democrat Party!