Originally Posted by rporter314
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No, that is the fairy tale that people on the left tell themselves so that they can feel morally superior.
IMMIGRATION

It was the inspiration for many on the right. Remember ... I am going to build a beautiful wall so tall and so great it will keep out all those uncleans who are rapists etc etc. It is a metaphor, a dog whistle, code for large scale public bigotry.

I always find it interesting when leftists insist that right wingers are sounding dog whistles, but that the only people who can hear them are leftists.

Wishing to have an actual enforcement of our immigration policy - rule of law - is not "racism".

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I live in a suburban/rural community and am awash with Trump supporters. 100% bigots.

Since you choose to define "bigot" as "Trump supporter", it's not surprising you arrived at that conclusion. All that does, however, is teach others not to take you seriously when you accuse someone of bigotry.

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Trump didn't get elected Because Yay Racism ... he was less-awful than Hillary
First, how can you say Sec Clinton was more awful than the puzzygrabbing, huckster, bigot, and unethical businessman?

I have a list of reasons why I think she was terrible, many of them policy related, many of them particular to her, her husband, and the unethical cabal they surrounded themselves with. Personally I considered both of them disasters beyond the pale, and voted for the former CIA guy out in Utah.

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Sec Clinton was once again cleared of wrongdoing by the DoJ. Mr Trump has been and continues to be under a cloud of criminal investigations, and his voters don't care. That is the primary difference. He is their voice and they don't care if he is corrupt.

Indeed. Just as many of Bill Clinton's supporters didn't care about his abuses, nor Hillary's about hers. Tribalism is a helluva drug.

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Second and more importantly, Mr Trump's Base, THE BASE, of the Republican party is probably about 75% heavily influenced by their bigotry.

Impressive. Every claim in that statement is false.

1. Trump's won the 2016 GOP primary with a distinct plurality. The majority of the GOP base voted against him.

2. The base that came out and voted for him was often marginally-at-best connected to the party, and were often democrats.

3. A trend which showed up again when he won the General by pulling in traditional democrat voters in key areas.

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There are a couple of key drivers of that, and one of them is definitely that the charge of racism was laughingly dismissed where it wasn't considered a badge of honor because they saw that the left liked to claim that anything the left didn't like was racist
This is a favorite meme of the right. But if you analyze the facts Democrats do not call people who are not racists racists.

Yeah, I'm just gonna let this hang right here. :p

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