Authored by Graham Noble via LibertyNation.com,
The Democratic Party appears to have decided that the surest way to win control of the White House in 2020 is to make racial division the centerpiece of its agenda. That is a gamble, to say the least, but unless the US economy crashes before the general election, the race card may be the only one President Donald Trump’s opponents can play.
Potential 2020 challengers to Trump are trying to outdo each other on the issue of perceived racial injustice and bigotry. As usual, the left-wing mediaare doing all they can to influence the next election in favor of Democrats – in this case, by ramming down the throats of Americans the notion that the Commander-in-Chief is a white nationalist and, by extension, so are his supporters.
Dem Candidates All-In On Racism Claims
Addressing the Young Leaders Conference in Atlanta on July 17, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pledged to “go to war against white nationalism and racism in every aspect of our lives.” The senator cited his personal history, saying that his father’s entire family was wiped out by “Hitler and his white nationalism.” Ironically, just as Hitler scapegoated Jews as being responsible for almost all of Germany’s problems at the time, so the modern American left seeks to hold white people of European descent responsible for all the Western world’s problems today.
In truth – while there is no doubt that Hitler was a racist – it is not accurate to describe him as a white nationalist. The Nazis allied themselves with the Japanese and also with Muslim Arabs while waging war on, or occupying, many European majority-white countries: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, and Norway. Though European Slavs are white – many with blond hair and blue eyes – Hitler considered them sub-human.
Hitler’s brand of racism was based not primarily on skin color but on a rather unscientific notion of racial heritage; he viewed people of “Germanic” descent to be superior to all others, regardless of skin color. Just as Africans and Asians have used tribal heritage as a reason to slaughter one another, so did Hitler use the same idea. While it is ridiculous to argue the relative merits of different brands of racism – since none has any merit – to blame white nationalism for Hitler’s atrocities is to rewrite history.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), whose campaign has yet to get off the ground, in July told CNN’s Dana Bash that Trump is “worse than a racist.” That is a rather confusing pronouncement, implying that the senator believes racists are not the worst of all people. Booker tried to explain himself: “[Trump] is actually using racist tropes and racial language for political gains, trying to use this as a weapon to divide our nation against itself.” Once again, a Democrat politician demonstrates his complete ignorance of the concept of irony.
Booker is not the only person on the left whose rhetoric requires redefining the word “outrageous.” MSNBC put alleged investigative journalist Vegas Tenold on the air, back in July, to claim, “We’re at a point where Trump is more racist than neo-Nazis.”
In August, Robert “Beto” O’Rourke said of Trump, “He is a racist, and he stokes racism in this country, and it does not offend our sensibilities; it fundamentally changes the character of this country and it leads to violence.”
Racial Rhetoric Coming From Only One Side
Only one of the two main political parties in the US appears to be obsessed with skin color (no prizes for guessing which). The main question, though, is why Democrats have decided to push this issue more than any other.
Only Joe Biden, by virtue of his eight years as Barack Obama’s vice president, truly commands the loyalty of most black Democrat voters. The concern must be that no other presidential hopeful can be assured the same level of loyalty from the black community.
Trump certainly is unlikely to win even 50% of the black or Latino vote in 2020, but he need only take a larger share of those votes than previous Republican presidential candidates claimed to put his eventual Democrat challenger in real trouble. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) currently is surging, but she does not enjoy anything like Biden’s level of loyalty among black voters. If the latter fades from the top tier of the nomination race, Warren is unlikely to benefit, though she certainly is one of those most likely to win her party’s nomination, and her support among blacks appears to dwarf Bernie’s.
Overplaying Your Hand
One would have thought that at some point the Democrats might worry that they are overplaying the race card. Such is the level of hysteria over the president’s alleged racism that the eventual Democratic Party presidential candidate will have little choice but to make the issue the very centerpiece of his or her campaign. Such a strategy is very unlikely to prove successful since most American voters – white, black, or brown – will probably base their choice on concerns other than racism.
Over many years the left has so diluted the impact of the label “racist” that there is little prospect a significant number of voters will be swayed by such allegations – particularly at a time of record-low unemployment among blacks and Latinos. Furthermore, Trump’s policies have done nothing to indicate racist sentiments. His attempts to reduce illegal immigration and impose a merit-based legal immigration system are the only things the left can interpret as racist policies.
Nevertheless, the majority of Americans agree, at the very least, that illegals should not be given a free pass, even if they may differ on how strict US immigration enforcement should be.
What chance, then, does a challenger to the president have of winning the 2020 election by focusing on portraying Trump – and by association all of his supporters – as racist? Very little at all is the only possible answer.
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Race, race, race, white supremacy, Nazi, Nazi, heteronormative, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, ableist, white privilege, white privilege, manspreading, mansplaining and did I mention also racist, racist, racist? Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
Clinton will be the candidate.
Will spend some money from the Clinton Foundation to wipe out the paupers early on in the primary.
Let’s hope she steps in the racist bucket or Me Too bucket.
If you look down at your hand and ONLY see RACE CARDS, what else can you play??? Its not as though they have economic plans that can stand up to scrutiny by even the least intelligent in society. Its not as though they are offering real medical freedom to fix the healthcare problem. Its not as though they are proposing an end to our overseas empire to help fund their proposed largesse. Its not as though they are proposing ending the racist war on drugs/self-ownership, to massive reduce the prison population and scale back the ravenous police state. Its not as though they have ANYTHING to offer except promises of “free stuff, free stuff, and more free stuff” with no way to pay for any of it.
People who see the world through the lens of racism, tend to be the biggest racists!
If racism is defined as preference for ones race and racial interests, then not being racist is a pathology.
I was thinking more of the Sharpton types with my statement. They are always looking for someone who is white to blame for all the problems of their race and other non-white races.
I saw a graphic yesterday showing the various democrat candidates’ popularity among various races. Warren has almost zero support among blacks. I guess they have good radar for total fucking phonies. Sanders does a little better with blacks. He’d do much better if he changed his first name to Colonel, but I can’t see that happening. 45% of blacks democrat primary voters are undecided.
Biden is retarded and senile. He could probably be one or the other, but not both. By the time of the Iowa caucuses, his brain freezes will have doomed his candidacy. All Kamala Harris has to do is be in the top three in IA and NH, then it’s on to SC where most of those undecided blacks will swing her way. I know the blacks. Then on to California where she’s already polling well. She’ll win most of the South (primaries).
In the last 70 years, the democrat party has only once nominated someone over the age of 57, and she had to be thrown into her handicap van in 2016 like a bag of cement. Dems will revert to form, meaning rejecting all septuagenarians.
Harris will be the nominee. Take it to the bank.
Only, Clinton knows this. And will have someone take her out before it becomes another 2008 primary.
God help us if you’re right.
Clinton is not having $50,000 a plate for a native American , Mexican , Notre Dame Fag or one of the Coons.
$15K just to get in the door and stand in the rear of the room.
Funny stuff, Iska.
The ‘Colonel’ comment and ‘like a bag of cement into a handicap van’
…had me giggling.
Noble’s line about Spartacus Booker: “Once again, a Democrat politician demonstrates his complete ignorance of the concept of irony.”. … Spot on.
The Left has lost their minds.
Normies are more and more waking up to them and the MSM’s support using BS parroting.
“Harris will be the nominee. Take it to the bank.”
I also used o think so. But, her poll numbers are dropping like a rock.
I think it might be Pocahontas.
Polls, schmolls. The Dems have never nominated someone in their 70’s. Warren might eke out a win in IA or NH, but black people will not vote for her, period. Black people are the majority of the democrat primary electorate throughout the South. Bill Clinton didn’t win ANY of the first four primaries/caucuses in 1992 but won the nomination in the South.
It doesn’t appear they like Harris in SC. Tulsi pointed out how badly she treated the brothers in CA when she was AG. I suspect we will see more of that in the next debate.
I think she is the VP slot for Lieawatha.
Tulsi is not going to be allowed into any more debates. The DNC will make sure of that. Harris being hard on criminals isn’t as big a problem with blacks as some think. Most of them don’t like crime or criminals. It doesn’t matter if she’s not polling well in SC now. Black voters are showing deference to Obama’s VP, but by the time they vote, Biden will have proven himself to suffer from serious cognitive decline. So black primary voters will vote for the black candidate. Period.
” I guess they have good radar for total fucking phonies.” – Really? Obama anyone???
The Dems and the media are doubling down on the Trump-is-a-racist meme. THAT’S ALL YOU WILL HEAR for the next 15 months.
The NYT is absolutely committed to the Orange Man Racist meme.
Unfuckingbelievable.
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“Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, said recently that, after the Mueller report, the paper has to shift the focus of its coverage from the Trump-Russia affair to the president’s alleged racism.
“We built our newsroom to cover one story, and we did it truly well,” Baquet said. “Now we have to regroup, and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story.”
The Trump-Russia hole came up dry. Now, Baquet continued, “I think that we’ve got to change.” The Times must “write more deeply about the country, race, and other divisions.”
—— https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/new-york-times-chief-outlines-coverage-shift-from-trump-russia-to-trump-racism
The NYT is pushing their “1619 project”.
It basically states that America’s history starts in 1619 and that racism is at the core of American society, and must be rooted out, all whites are racists … blah blah.
I am not a fan of Ben Shapiro! But, this is the shortest vid I could find (3 min) which rightfully explains this demonic attempt by the NYT to rewrite American history.
Or, you can just go to the NYT website and read it yourself.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
BTW, this is what happens when you put niggers in charge of the Op-Ed division.
150 years of no slavery means nothing, as does 50 years of affirmative action. It all boils down to the 20 slaves brought here 400 years ago.
Trump only has to pick up 5 – 10% more black vote and the dems are toast.
“Such a strategy is very unlikely to prove successful since most American voters – white, black, or brown – will probably base their choice on concerns other than racism.”
Yes, they’ll base their concerns on race, perhaps to a degree difficult to imagine, but imho that’s how it’ll play out, because lines have been drawn in the sand. Only the truly hornswoggled will vote against their own ethnic/racial interests; sadly, it’s not a small group and its color is white. A genuinely awakened Euro-descended population would realize they have no choice but to defend their own. There are nuances to this, but unfortunately they are being blotted out by the animosity on the part of the others. How this will play out is disturbing to contemplate.
We should help them and say “that is so racist “about anything and everything we don’t like. Help them make the term meaningless. Ovcerthecliff
Concur completely. The task is to take it from the verbal nonsense that emanates from the gullets of the New Marxists, Progtards, SJW and professional victims, and to have it metamorphose to total meaninglessness; hence the nuspeek term “raysiss”.
It means fucking nothing.
Now as far as the card goes well that Michelle Obama she plays it better than almost everyone :
As well as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson; those grandmasters of the race hustlin’ shakedown artistes.
They are going to draft Mikey the crossdresser. She’s squealing I won’t run etc. Sure, and black is beautiful.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/justice-64-of-federal-arrests-are-non-citizens-200-increase
The Democrat party is evil. The main thing they offer is hate. Anyone with any common sense can watch news clips and look up their websites and see what kind of crazy things they support. There also seem’s to be an endless supply of money with their thinking on spending.