Before modification by Cannoli at 02/08/2016 12:21:54 PM
David Duke has been in politics for more than 20 years, and he has had his ideology for years. To blame him on Trump is absurd.
But let's go back to 2000:
"So the Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke...This is not company I wish to keep,” Trump said."
Speaking of quotes, in what has long moved from a familiar refrain to a tired one, a moondog link does NOT say what he claims it said!
At the same time, Louisiana voters might hesitate, given Duke’s racial views, “even if there are elements of his message that resonate with them.”
Your own article makes a difference between Duke's racial views and the man's actual appeal! The article is about a perennial fringe candidate trying to draft off the success of another unconventional politician, and he has repeatedly disavowed and condemned Duke, only refusing to do so in an interview that was attempting to smear him by linking their names and trying to put him on the defensive.
He's running on an anti-immigration platform, in a year when immigrants all over the world are murdering people, with only Islam as their common denominator. He is not being bigoted when he is pointing out a dangerous category of people who would be included in the broad policy change he has made the central plank of his campaign. He is not singling them out for special treatment, he is opposed to immigration in general, which would have the happy consequence of blocking those who happen to be killers. Your ilk has no problem saying the same things about Christians when a much smaller proportion of that group commits some act of violence or other.
They are. This is a fact, unless you can prove that there are no rapists or murders among the Mexican immigrant community, which you cannot, because not only are there rapists and murderers among the Mexicans, as there are among every nationality, they are disproportionately represented among American criminals.
An activist Mexican judge, who belongs to a racist legal group, ruling on a case involving a public figure, whom the media and Roland00 have been saying is going to cause Mexicans to hate America or the GOP. According to your people, Trump was inspiring hatred among Mexicans, and then when Trump says "Maybe this Mexican activist is prejudiced against me" you all shit a brick like he said something racist, which he didn't.
You do the EXACT SAME THING as Donald Trump, all the time. Any court ruling against any black man, even one caught on video assaulting or murdering people, is automatically presumed to be racist just because they happen to be white. Well Trump's judge not only happens to be a second generation Mexican immigrant, he is an activist supporting illegal immigration, who belongs to a lawyers' association that defends illegal immigrants and files suits on their behalf. A judge with far more tenuous connections to the oil industry would be forced to recuse himself from any environmental lawsuit.
If all six pointed stars are automatically anti-semetic, the state of Israel has some explaining to do. The six-pointed star is also a common law enforcement symbol, and Trump's retweet involved an accusation of criminality. Only someone really reaching, or completely dishonest can call it anti-Semitic. Since when did Hilary Clinton become a Jew? And since when is a man with Jewish daughter anti-Semitic? You DO know that Ivanka, his daughter, and the most prominent member of his entourage, who is probably more famous (and a more consistent supporter) than his running mate, is an Orthodox Jew whose last name, were she not a celebrity, would be Kushner?
He has no control over who shows up, and a vote is a vote. Democrats are never called to account for the support from environmental terrorists, or Obama kicking off his career with a fundraiser in the home of a pair of terrorists. Instead, anyone who mentions him "palling around with terrorists" is accused of racism.
You can only advance your agenda behind cries of racism, and using minorities as human shields for so long before people catch on and shoot the hostages, figuratively speaking. And that's why Donald Trump was not derailed by accusations of racism from the start of his campaign.
Democrats and liberals are the boy who cried wolf, and no one is coming out to check anymore. I don't know whether or not Donald Trump is actually a racist, if he's the metaphorical wolf finally come for the sheep, but I do know that none of the accusations thus far leveled at him have held up to any scrutiny.