David Duke, who walked around the LSU campus in full Nazi regalia in 1970 was a Republican leader ahead of his time.
There’s nothing new about Trump. American History is filled with his ilk and he tapped the reaction to the election of the first black President.
So, just about every election for a long, long time will be the “most important of our lifetime.” Never underestimate the dark history of America or its resilience.
David Duke these days must be a bitter old man, cheated of his political ambitions because he was too far ahead of his time for today’s Republican party.
Don’t forget about the employment of illegal immigrants in Lake Charles by Jeffy and his brother’s contracting company a few years ago. He is OK with immigration if he can make a bigger profit from it.
Didn’t the unions bring him to court over that? I have always been amazed on how it was amply reported on, and I kept looking and looking for news of some kind of outcome, but the story just went cold and nobody I know can tell me what happened.
Trump is both a symptom of and a cause of the divisions we have in this country. The divisions already present in the USA enabled Trump to come to political power, and Trump's ego and desire for love from a certain segment of society led him to continue to make extreme statements deepening our wounds. Sad to say, I don't see the Republican Party returning to sanity anytime soon. And without some semblance of sanity in the GOP, America will not be able to recover.
I will add, that parading Liz Cheney around is not helping either. She did further her father's and his boss's lies about WMDs that caused so much damage in the Middle East and in our country. Many of the never-Trump Republicans and some Democrats who supported the Iraq War bear a great amount of responsibility for the rise of Trump, and many in Republican Party who have thrown their alliance to the Orange Man won't tolerate the return of Neocons like Cheney to power in the GOP. And as bad as Trump is--and he is very, very bad--we should not let Cheney, her father, Bush, Kristol, and others off the hook for their failed foreign policy that cost so many American lives and did so much damage to many other countries.
'Trumpism' really started with the Tea Party Movement and accelerated in 2013 after the Romney defeat. Sean Trende at Real Clear Politics argued that down-scale Whites had stopped voting and were an untapped resource for future Republican candidates. Even if Trump never read Trende, he understood instinctively that the anti-Obama sentiment that he helped stoke could be a political gold mine that other GOP candidates were too timid to exploit. The rest, as they say, is history, except that the cluelessness of Hillary, Obama and Congressional Dems gave Trump a boost, as did the legacy media.
Bob, you are absolutely correct. Since 2017 I have listened to and watched people overlook and justify Trump’s behavior with blind loyalty. If he were a proven pedophile, I think his “church” would forgive him by blaming the cop who made the arrest. That level of devotion is beyond my comprehension.
David Duke, who walked around the LSU campus in full Nazi regalia in 1970 was a Republican leader ahead of his time.
There’s nothing new about Trump. American History is filled with his ilk and he tapped the reaction to the election of the first black President.
So, just about every election for a long, long time will be the “most important of our lifetime.” Never underestimate the dark history of America or its resilience.
David Duke these days must be a bitter old man, cheated of his political ambitions because he was too far ahead of his time for today’s Republican party.
Don’t forget about the employment of illegal immigrants in Lake Charles by Jeffy and his brother’s contracting company a few years ago. He is OK with immigration if he can make a bigger profit from it.
Didn’t the unions bring him to court over that? I have always been amazed on how it was amply reported on, and I kept looking and looking for news of some kind of outcome, but the story just went cold and nobody I know can tell me what happened.
Trump is both a symptom of and a cause of the divisions we have in this country. The divisions already present in the USA enabled Trump to come to political power, and Trump's ego and desire for love from a certain segment of society led him to continue to make extreme statements deepening our wounds. Sad to say, I don't see the Republican Party returning to sanity anytime soon. And without some semblance of sanity in the GOP, America will not be able to recover.
I will add, that parading Liz Cheney around is not helping either. She did further her father's and his boss's lies about WMDs that caused so much damage in the Middle East and in our country. Many of the never-Trump Republicans and some Democrats who supported the Iraq War bear a great amount of responsibility for the rise of Trump, and many in Republican Party who have thrown their alliance to the Orange Man won't tolerate the return of Neocons like Cheney to power in the GOP. And as bad as Trump is--and he is very, very bad--we should not let Cheney, her father, Bush, Kristol, and others off the hook for their failed foreign policy that cost so many American lives and did so much damage to many other countries.
'Trumpism' really started with the Tea Party Movement and accelerated in 2013 after the Romney defeat. Sean Trende at Real Clear Politics argued that down-scale Whites had stopped voting and were an untapped resource for future Republican candidates. Even if Trump never read Trende, he understood instinctively that the anti-Obama sentiment that he helped stoke could be a political gold mine that other GOP candidates were too timid to exploit. The rest, as they say, is history, except that the cluelessness of Hillary, Obama and Congressional Dems gave Trump a boost, as did the legacy media.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/21/the_case_of_the_missing_white_voters_revisited_118893.html
What you say is so true.
Thank you for this!
Unfortunately the Confederacy is still alive.
Bob, you are absolutely correct. Since 2017 I have listened to and watched people overlook and justify Trump’s behavior with blind loyalty. If he were a proven pedophile, I think his “church” would forgive him by blaming the cop who made the arrest. That level of devotion is beyond my comprehension.