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The President told four congresswomen of color to "go back" to the countries "from which they came." Three were born in the Bronx, Detroit and Cincinnati; the fourth has been a citizen longer than his youngest son has been alive. The House condemned the tweets as racist, on the record, 240 to 187. Then a rally crowd chanted "send her back," and he let it roll for thirteen seconds.
Saturday morning in Squirrel Hill, a gunman walked into the Tree of Life synagogue and murdered eleven people at Shabbat services, the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. Two hours earlier he had posted his reason: a Jewish refugee agency "likes to bring invaders in that kill our people." Not "Jews" in the abstract. A specific charge, in a specific vocabulary, that had been circulating in American politics all autumn.
In an Oval Office meeting on immigration, the President of the United States asked why America takes people from "shithole countries," meaning Haiti, El Salvador and Africa, and suggested more immigrants from Norway instead. He met Norway's prime minister the day before, which is apparently how the shopping list gets written. Senator Durbin was in the room: "He said these hateful things, and he said them repeatedly."
Men with torches marched through Charlottesville chanting "Jews will not replace us." One of them drove a car into a crowd and killed Heather Heyer. It took the President of the United States three days and two do-overs to land on his final answer: there were "very fine people on both sides." This page records all three attempts, because the third one was the honest one.
On Sunday, Rep. Steve King of Iowa tweeted twelve words in praise of the Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders: "We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies." He has spent the days since explaining that he meant culture. The sentence contains the word "babies." Babies do not have a culture yet. They have parents, and the parents are the part he can see.
For years, Colin Powell has been one of the Republicans used as an example of how the GOP simply cannot be racist. How can we be racist when Colin Powell thinks we're cool?
Donald trump is back to letting everyone know how he's not a racist. It's all the media spinning his comments into racist sounding rhetoric.
As Donald Trump enmeshed himself in a bitter fight with the parents of an American Muslim military hero -- and Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and John McCain looked to put distance between themselves and their party’s presidential nominee -- there’s actually worse news for Republicans. Several important court victories for voting rights since Friday could dramatically remake the campaign for Congress and the White House, and this time, GOP leadership may have a harder time…
While there were plenty of racist tweets made during the Democratic Party Debate on Tuesday night, we're going to have to point to former Arizona Republican Party chairman Randy Pullen as the winner... At least from elected Republicans. The voters themselves took the racism to another level and maybe we'll cover that later. After the candidates were asked whether “all lives matter” or “black lives matter,” Randy Pullen tweeted this out to the twitterverse: https://twitter.com/RPullen/status/654113205480919040 Nicely…
Why is Donald Trump so popular? He has captured the moment when voters recognize that Republican political rhetoric has nothing in common with reality.