You Are Still Crying Wolf. I have turned off comments to keep out bad people who might be attracted by this sort of thing. Avoid sharing in places where this will attract the wrong kind of attention, as per your best judgment. Please don’t interpret anything in this article to mean that Trump is not super terrible. I think this is true but incomplete. I do not deny that Trump is being divisive and abusing identity politics in more subtle ways. I will try to discuss missing parts at more length later. It asks whether Democrats have “cried wolf” so many times that nobody believes them anymore. Back in October 2. Watch breaking news videos, viral videos and original video clips on CNN.com. I wrote that the picture of Trump as “the white power candidate” and “the first openly white supremacist candidate to have a shot at the Presidency in the modern era” was overblown. I said that “the media narrative that Trump is doing some kind of special appeal- to- white- voters voodoo is unsupported by any polling data”, and predicted that: If Trump were the Republican nominee, he could probably count on equal or greater support from minorities as Romney or Mc. Cain before him. Now the votes are in, and Trump got greater support from minorities than Romney or Mc. Cain before him. You can read the Washington Post article, Trump Got More Votes From People Of Color Than Romney Did, or look at the raw data (source)Trump made gains among blacks. He made gains among Latinos. Svali Interview With Svali: Escaped Member of "The Family" Note on Svali: This information can be highly disturbing. And though the Svali story fits what many serious. Entertainment Television, LLC. A Division of NBCUniversal with news, shows, photos, and videos. He made gains among Asians. The only major racial group where he didn’t get a gain of greater than 5% was white people. I want to repeat that: the group where Trump’s message resonated least over what we would predict from a generic Republican was the white population. Nor was there some surge in white turnout. I don’t think we have official numbers yet, but by eyeballing what data we have it looks very much like whites turned out in equal or lesser numbers this year than in 2. There is no evidence that Donald Trump is more racist than any past Republican candidate (or any other 7. All this stuff about how he’s “the candidate of the KKK” and “the vanguard of a new white supremacist movement” is made up. It’s a catastrophic distraction from the dozens of other undeniable problems with Trump that could have convinced voters to abandon him. That it came to dominate the election cycle should be considered a horrifying indictment of our political discourse, in the same way that it would be a horrifying indictment of our political discourse if the entire Republican campaign had been based around the theory that Hillary Clinton was a secret Satanist. Yes, calling Romney a racist was crying wolf. But you are still crying wolf. I avoided pushing this point any more since last October because I didn’t want to look like I was supporting Trump, or accidentally convince anyone else to support Trump. I think Trump’s election is a disaster. He has no plan, he’s dangerously trigger- happy, and his unilateralism threatens aid to developing countries, one of the most effective ways we currently help other people. I thought and still think a Trump presidency will be a disaster. But since we. Yes, it’s possible for candidates’ secret feelings to differ from their explicit messages, but the things they say every single day and put on their website and include in their speeches are still worth going over to see what image they want to project. Trump’s official message has been the same vague feel- good pro- diversity rhetoric as any other politician. Here’s Trump on African Americans: It is my highest and greatest hope that the Republican Party can be the home in the future and forevermore for African- Americans and the African- American vote because I will produce, and I will get others to produce, and we know for a fact it doesn. Every action I take, I will ask myself: does this make life better for young Americans in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Ferguson who have as much of a right to live out their dreams as any other child in America? African- American citizens have sacrificed so much for this nation. They have fought and died in every war since the Revolution, and from the pews and the picket lines they have lifted up the conscience of our country in the long march for Civil Rights. Yet, too many African- Americans have been left behind. No group in America has been more harmed by Hillary Clinton’s policies than African- Americans. If Hillary Clinton’s goal was to inflict pain on the African- American community, she could not have done a better job. Tonight, I am asking for the vote of every African- American citizen in this country who wants a better future. And at the end of four years I guarantee that I will get over 9. African- American vote. Because I will produce for the inner- cities and I will produce for the African- Americans. America must reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton who sees communities of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future. On Hispanics: I have just landed having returned from a very important and special meeting with the President of Mexico. They’re great workers. They’re fantastic people and they want legal immigration. I’ll take jobs back from China, I’ll take jobs back from Japan. The Hispanics are going to get those jobs, and they’re going to love Trump. On his campaign: It’s a movement comprised of Americans from all races, religions, backgrounds and beliefs who want and expect our government to serve the people, and serve the people it will. Trump’s campaign photos are consistent with a desire to present the same message: This wasn’t a scripted appearance forced by his campaign staff. According to the Washington Times: Trump walked on stage in Greeley, Colorado to a large cheering crowd when he spotted a rainbow flag in the audience. As the music blasted through the speakers, Mr. Trump pointed to a supporter as if to ask if he could see his flag and then motioned for a campaign worker to help retrieve the LGBT symbol of equality from the attendee. Within seconds, Mr. Trump was walking around the platform with the rainbow flag in his hands and moments later unfurled it in full display. You could see a huge smile on Mr. Trump is campaigning to be President for ALL Americans and was proud to carry the . Trump has gone from campaign stop to campaign stop talking about how much he likes and respects minorities and wants to fight for them. And if you believe he’s lying, fine. Yet I notice that people accusing Trump of racism use the word “openly” like a tic. He’s never just “racist” or “white supremacist”. He’s always “openly racist” and “openly white supremacist”. Trump is running on pure white supremacy, has thrown off the last pretense that his campaign is not about bigotry, has the slogan Make American Openly White Supremacist Again, is an openly white supremacist nominee, etc, etc, etc. And I’ve seen a few dozen articles like this where people say that “the bright side of a Trump victory is that finally America admitted its racism out in the open so nobody can pretend it’s not there anymore.”This, I think, is the first level of crying wolf. What if, one day, there is a candidate who hates black people so much that he doesn’t go on a campaign stop to a traditionally black church in Detroit, talk about all of the contributions black people have made to America, promise to fight for black people, and say that his campaign is about opposing racism in all its forms? What if there’s a candidate who does something more like, say, go to a KKK meeting and say that black people are inferior and only whites are real Americans? We might want to use words like “openly racist” or “openly white supremacist” to describe him. And at that point, nobody will listen, because we wasted “openly white supremacist” on the guy who tweets pictures of himself eating a taco on Cinco de Mayo while saying “I love Hispanics!”III. A rundown of some contrary talking points: 1. Is Trump getting a lot of his support from white supremacist organizations? No, because there are not enough organized white supremacists to make up “a lot” of anyone’s support. According to Wikipedia on KKK membership: As of 2. Anti- Defamation League puts total Klan membership nationwide at around 3,0. Southern Poverty Law Center puts it at 6,0. The KKK is really small. They could all stay in the same hotel with a bunch of free rooms left over. Or put another way: the entire membership of the KKK is less than the daily readership of this blog. If you Google “trump KKK”, you get 1. I know that Google’s list of results numbers isn’t very accurate. Yet even if they’re inflating the numbers by 1. Trump- KKK connection this election, there are still two to three articles about a Trump- KKK connection for every single Klansman in the world. I don’t see any sign that there are other official white supremacy movements that are larger than the Klan, or even enough other small ones to substantially raise the estimate of people involved. David Duke called a big pan- white- supremacist meeting in New Orleans in 2. North America and Europe he was only able to muster 3. NAACP conventions routinely get 1. My guess is that the number of organized white supremacists in the country is in the very low five digits. Is Trump getting a lot of his support from online white nationalists and the alt- right? No, for the same reason. The alt- right is mostly an online movement, which makes it hard to measure. The three main alt- right hubs I know of are /r/altright, Stormfront, and 4chan’s politics board. The only one that displays clear user statistics is /r/altright, which says that there are about 5,0. The real number is probably less – some people change accounts, some people post once and disappear, and some non- white- nationalists probably go there to argue. But sure, let’s say that community has 5,0. Stormfront’s user statistics say it gets about 3. American. My own blog gets about 8,0. If this kind of thing scales, then it suggests about 1. Stormfront community. About half seem to be American. Celebrity Videos, Red Carpet Videos, Movie Trailers. Translate to English > Translate to English > Translate to English > Translate to English > This content is available customized for our international audience. Switch to US edition? This content is available customized for our international audience. Switch to Canadian edition? This content is available customized for our international audience. Switch to UK edition? This content is available customized for our international audience. 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