Yes, the Harris poll found that over two thirds of Republicans, that would be over 40 million Republicans, support the racist swill that Donald Trump spewed forth in statements and then doubled down with tweets on Charlottesville.
I just yesterday mentioned how on a six person panel on CNN Jeffery Toobin said he did not know how people across America saw the president’s words, that maybe they liked them. The other five pundits on the panel all jumped in to loudly disagree, that it was only a sliver of Americans thinking that way.
Hello New York elitists! Gosh, I bet not one of them has spend more than a few weeks of their lives in the South or rural America, and then only at 70mph or in.a swimsuit.
We wring our hands about how the poor Republican Senators and Representatives are going to deal with this growing racism taking over their party when fully two thirds of their voters are ignorant racists so full of hate an bile they sink of brimstone. Well the GOP has been playing the racist card for them with their dog whistles now since Ronald Reagan’s comments on “welfare queens” and “bucks buying gin with foodstamps.”
As a real president said the other day, no one is born hating anyone else for their skin color, ethnicity,r religion or sex or sexual orientation. It is learned. And where did these mostly rural and Southern Americans learn to be the bigots and racists they are?
Oh oh the internet! Bullshit. This has been going long before the internet. It’s from their parents and from a generation of right-wing talk radio and Fox News preaching hate, bigotry, lies, conspiracies and fake news 24/7 from hundreds of radio stations.It sinks in deeper in rural areas where there is nothing better to do but listen to talk radio all day and spend evenings drinking Keystone while watching Fox News. Well beside hanging out in Walmart and Carl Jr’s parking lots. Or a big night out dinner at Cracker Barrel.
There is big money in making ignorant bigots feel good about themselves.Which is what talk radio and Fox News are mostly about.