Trump Face Palms as He Denies the KKK Represents His Followers

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:28 pm

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In the category of unintentionally funny today, we have a statement from the Trump campaign denouncing his “endorsement” by the KKK. The paper’s editor denied to The Washington Post it was an “official” endorsement but many took it as such.

As I say, this is funny, because as we saw yesterday, one in three Trump followers on Twitter follow white supremacists, and Trump himself has himself retweeted white supremacist tweets. Then there are all the nasty tweets about Muslims and Mexicans and African-Americans and others that reduce his effective following to “white Christian Americans.”

It is telling that Trump can say he rejects the KKK’s message yet he can praise Darrell Issa, a pathological liar and hater – the man Obama said was “Trump before Trump” – as a “good man”:

It is no coincidence that Fox News claims to represent the same demographic – white Christian Americans – as the Ku Klux Klan. The audiences are virtually indistinguishable. Trump can claim their views are repulsive but the evidence is overwhelming: he is speaking their language.

There is a reason they support Donald Trump, and that is because he has given them a voice and a platform. He has made racism acceptable. He has mainstreamed ethnic and religious and gender-based hate like no one in recent history, and certainly like nobody in American political history.

Here are some resources for the curious:

Trump’s sexist remarks tracker: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/donald-trump-sexism-tracker-every-offensive-comment-in-one-place/
Women Trump has sexually assaulted: http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/10/all-the-women-accusing-trump-of-rape-sexual-assault.html
Every person, place, or thing Trump has insulted: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html

Trump says he “denounces hate in any form” but if that is true, then he needs to explain all the above comments. And no, “just kidding” or “I was joking” or “we shouldn’t take Trump literally” is not an excuse for the record volume of hate he has produced since entering the race, let alone in his lifetime.

Trump’s is a campaign built on lies, on a completely fabricated America where the crime rate is soaring, the economy is collapsing, where white people are persecuted, and where the Republican nominee can somehow bring jobs back to America while keeping his own clothes manufacturing in China and Mexico. It is utter nonsense, from top to bottom.

Hrafnkell Haraldsson

Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.