May 11, 2016
By David Leopold. Crossposted from Medium. Available in Spanish here. Last week, Donald Trump’s Cinco de Mayo tweet topped the headlines. This tweet is the latest in a longstanding series of insulting, offensive, andderogatory tweets from the GOP presidential front runner. What makes Trump’s Twitter conduct so utterly disturbing, and fascinating for the media,...
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The Donald Trump campaign has blamed the nomination of a white nationalist as a California delegate on a “database error.” Don’t you just hate it when that happens? The news yesterday that the Trump campaign had selected William Daniel Johnson — a lawyer who had “once called for a...
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This afternoon, Mother Jones reported that Donald Trump’s campaign has selected a prominent white nationalist as a campaign delegate ahead of the upcoming California presidential primary. William Johnson is the head of the American Freedom Party, a group that “exists to represent the political interests of White Americans” and preserve “the customs...
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Ronald Reagan, 1989: “I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming...
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“Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were absolutely incredulous — watch Mika throw her hands up to her face in frustration! — at the suggestion that some of Donald Trump’s supporters are racists and bigots. “Oh my God. Did you just say that? No, you just said that!” Scarborough...
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In addition to moral toll on America, center-right American Action Forum study find mass deportation would inflict massive economic costs; No room for equivocation: GOP elected officials and candidates must follow lead of Sen. Ben Sasse and others and reject Trump We have never believed that Donald Trump would try...
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May 4, 2016
Donald Trump is now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, the leader of the GOP nationally and here in Ohio. Previously, Senator Rob Portman said that he would support the Republican nominee, whether it’s Trump or someone else. Unless Portman now grows a backbone and follows the lead of fellow...
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Frank Sharry: “Donald Trump is not a clown to be dismissed, he’s a threat to be defeated” We have long recognized the dangers of Donald Trump and his blend of nativism, demagoguery and authoritarianism. Since his campaign launch, Trump has tried to mainstream a vision of America that is...
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It’s almost that time of the year again — some annual Cinco de Mayo “Hispandering” from Reince Priebus and the Republican National Committee. But, there’s one huge difference this year — the presumptive GOP nominee is a blatant racist. In fact, this year, that day will fall at around...
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Media Matters has released a new must-see video tackling the failure of many in the media to call out Trump’s rhetoric for what it really is — blatant racism. As Carlos Maza and Coleman Lowndes of Media Matters write: News networks frequently use the word “controversial” to describe Donald...
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