by Terrance Heath | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, in a scathing take-down of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton linked him to white supremacists and white nationalists in the alt-right movement, and laid bare his own history of racial discrimination. Republicans responded with deafening silence. When the...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
In a scorching takedown of Donald Trump and his alt-right allies, Hillary Clinton reminded Americans that silence never defeats hatred, but that it must be called out and exposed for what it is. With a record like his, Trump had it coming. After a week of hypocritical...
by Digby | Aug 25, 2016 | Blog, This Is The GOP
I wrote about the Alt-right for Salon today. It's not exactly the same as European ethno-nationalism. It's scarier: After months of squabbling about whether it's acceptable to use the "F" word (fascism) it seems at long last that we have come to some kind of consensus...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Flagging in the polls, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has decided to shake up his campaign, bringing in Stephen Bannon, head of Breitbart News LLC, as CEO. Paul Manafort, the experienced Republican operative who has urged Trump to pivot toward the center...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Contrary to recent headlines, Donald Trump isn’t reaching out to African-Americans. He isn’t even talking to us. He’s talking past us, and saying exactly what his alt-right base wants to hear him saying to black folks. Donald Trump is telling African-Americans that...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Donald Trump’s announcement of his new campaign team completes the process of bringing white supremacists and white nationalists from the extreme fringe into the mainstream of American conservatism and the GOP, which began when Donald Trump started his campaign. If...