Maya Angelou: “When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time” This morning, Trump released his first general election ad, relying heavily on the nativist rhetoric that has been so central to his campaign: “Syrian refugees flood in. Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay,...
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Prominent GOPer: “That only shows that there are no Republican leaders of Lincolnian stature” When choosing new leadership to revamp his struggling campaign, Trump looked past mainstream Republican options and instead chose Stephen Bannon. As the former executive chairman for Breitbart News, Bannon spearheaded a website notorious for conspiracy theories...
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The official merger of white supremacist media and the Donald Trump campaign has extremists overjoyed. From the Daily Beast: “Latterly, Breitbart emerged as a nationalist site and done great stuff on immigration in particular,” VDARE.comeditor Peter Brimelow told The Daily Beast. VDare is a white supremacist site. It’s named...
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It looks like a good way to make something really not popular is to get Donald Trump to support it. Over at Mother Jones, Kevin Drum highlights some pretty interesting data: support for a massive US/Mexico border wall has plummeted among the American public ever since Trump publicly endorsed...
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Not even Pope Francis has been spared from the racist scrawlings of Breitbart, the conservative media outlet that now appears to be working hand-in-hand with Donald Trump for President. Following yet another shake-up in the troubled campaign, “Stephen Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News LLC, an outspoken Trump supporter...
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Many have been quick to note that even Donald Trump wouldn’t pass Donald Trump’s ludicrous plan to conduct “extreme vetting” of people seeking to come to the United States. “In the Cold War, we had an ideological screening test,” Trump said yesterday. “The time is overdue to develop a...
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Donald Trump will be on two ballots in California this November — once as the GOP nominee, and then as the nominee of a far-right party that once nominated one of America’s most ardent segregationists. The American Independent Party is the far-right group “best known for supporting segregationist George Wallace...
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Coffman’s Record Conflicts With Desperate Election Year Pandering to Latinos; Constituents Know It’s Too Little, Too Late A new piece from the New York Times’ Emmarie Huetteman traces Rep. Mike Coffman’s shameless demographic pandering as he campaigns to keep his seat in Congress. The article examines Mike Coffman political shift from introducing...
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Donald’s Trump’s “Second Amendment people” comment on Tuesday in Wilmington, North Carolina has the nation grappling to understand what he meant. Speaker Paul Ryan suggested this was a “joke gone bad.” As someone who attended Trump’s later rally that day in Fayetteville, I can tell you this is no...
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Patti Davis, the sole daughter of late President Ronald Reagan, condemned Donald Trump’s recent remarks calling for the assassination of his opponent, Hillary Clinton. President Reagan survived an assassination attempt in 1981 that severely-wounded a Secret Service agent, a police officer, and Press Secretary James Brady, who became permanently...
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