Originally Posted by rporter314
It's more than a love affair. They have found someone who comes as close to David Duke to saying the quiet part out loud ... yeah he is a bigot ... he's proud of it ... and that has embolden them.

The proof to that claim is fairly straight forward. Consider all the Republican candidates. They all stand for the same policies whether on immigration, fiscal, or economic issues, so what separates Trump from the rest? The driving force of the BASE .... bigotry. He comes the closest to saying it out loud. Think of Gov DeSantis. He has come closest to actually enacting prohibitive legislation targeting sexual orientation, book banning, companies, schools, etc which do not toe the line on a whole host of conservative issues and yet he would be lucky to be elected dogcatcher. What's the difference? He won't say it out loud. You gotta be the voice of their bigotry. You gotta tell them they aren't bigots. Had Gov DeSantis simply said there are fine people who are white supremacists, he would have been in contention, and he had the legislative receipts to support it.

Elected Republicans are onboard with Trump because they know the BASE will not tolerate people who recognize their bigotry. Big Business doesn't care about the bigotry but they know Republicans will lower taxes, so they don't care. All they have to do is not incite the BASE.

What makes all of this dangerous is the BASE only knows one part of the Constitution ... 2nd Amendment. The rest they don't care about, and in fact they would be good with a dictator if it were Trump ... the one person who had the audacity to say it out loud ... white supremacists are fine people ... which makes Nazis fine people.

Once you peel back all the rationalizations, the only thing left is bigotry.

Post of the year, at least so far. :applaud

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