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Zorro

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Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:15 PM Jul 2020

Trump's push to amplify racism unnerves Republicans who have long enabled him

President Trump’s unyielding push to preserve Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination, crystallized by his harsh denunciation of the racial justice movement Friday night at Mount Rushmore, has unnerved Republicans who have long enabled him but now fear losing power and forever associating their party with his racial animus.

Although amplifying racism and stoking culture wars have been mainstays of Trump’s public identity for decades, they have been particularly pronounced this summer as the president has reacted to the national reckoning over systemic discrimination by seeking to weaponize the anger and resentment of some white Americans for his own political gain.

Trump has left little doubt through his utterances the past few weeks that he sees himself not only as the Republican standard-bearer but as leader of a modern grievance movement animated by civic strife and marked by calls for “white power,” the phrase chanted by one of his supporters in a video the president shared last weekend on Twitter. He later deleted the video but did not disavow its message.

Trump put his strategy to resuscitate his troubled reelection campaign by galvanizing white supporters on display Friday night under the chiseled granite gaze of four past presidents memorialized in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He celebrated Independence Day with a dystopian speech in which he excoriated racial justice protesters as “evil” representatives of a “new far-left fascism” whose ultimate goal is “the end of America.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-racism-white-nationalism-republicans/2020/07/04/2b0aebe6-bbaf-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

Tie his rotten carcass and an anvil around the necks of every Republican running for election.

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Trump's push to amplify racism unnerves Republicans who have long enabled him (Original Post) Zorro Jul 2020 OP
Deplorables vote for him in large numbers because he hates the people they hate, just as hard. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2020 #1
R stands for Racism. dalton99a Jul 2020 #2
As to anvils, electoral death-bed conversions against tRump must be exposed & shamed. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2020 #3
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