Posted on 08/21/2015 8:57:13 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
CNN Presidential Historian Douglas Brinkley said that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s rhetoric was the same as George Wallace’s “segregation now” statement on Friday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight.”
Brinkley, during a discussion on the term “anchor baby” was asked about the historical context of controversial terms in politics. During the question, host Don Lemon stated the last term he remembers being so controversial was “welfare queens.” Brinkley’s response began, “Or Donald Trump playing the birther card about Barack Obama.”
He continued, “I think there’s a lot of — they used to call them [in] the 19th century, Know-Nothingness. [The] Know-Nothing Party was anti-Mormon, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish. And here tonight in California — I mean, in Alabama, tonight, watching this, you think about George Wallace with ‘segregation now,’ and ‘segregation forever.’ Plays well with a certain audience, but is that the brand the GOP wants to have represented. In other words, Trump did well tonight. He had a lot of momentum –.”
Lemon then cut in to ask Brinkley if he thought Trump’s rhetoric was “on the same level” as Wallace’s. Brinkley answered, “I do. I think it’s basically, ‘Mexicans go home.’ That’s the code language, what’s going on with the wall. And that’s what anchor babies is all about. It’s deeply offensive to Mexican-Americans and it’s going to kill the Republicans with the Latino vote. It doesn’t mean it’s not entertaining. Demagogues are often entertaining. But there’s too much China bashing, Japan bashing, Saudi Arabia bashing, going after all of our allies. Basically, it’s nativism on steroids. And it’s tracking right now. And it’s going to be awful hard for Jeb Bush to go after Trump. I’m not quite sure how he does it effectively, because Trump is a master at media manipulation.”
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The media is all bought off. We need to start compiling a list...
Poor David had to retire to his fainting couch.
I as thinking it was more like Winston Churchill saying “we will fight them in the cities...we will fight them in fields...”
He has no idea how many blacks support Trump (I personally know two of them). They are sick of illegals as well. Does that make them racist?
Douglas Brinkley obviously studied Alinsky 101.
To liberals, probably.
To people wo love the country and rule of law and constitution, nope.
Well certainly the biggest losers with the Mexican invasion were blacks. Jobs that should have gone to blacks went,by default, to immigrants.
And I heard a black woman wail that when immigrants break the law, nothing happens. “But when one of our boys breaks the law, they go to jail”.
> CNN Presidential Historian Douglas Brinkley said that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s rhetoric was the same as George Wallace’s “segregation now” statement on Friday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight.”
Yeah isn’t it grand? Let people segregate. Its what they want and they’re happier that way. Then if they decide they want to tear $hit up, they can tear up their own Detroit style.
I heard that Trump is quite popular among legal Hispanics.
If Brinkley has a hyperventilation problem, he needs a brown paper bag.
At least he didn’t invoke Godwin’s Law.
:)
I guess CNN doesn’t want to donate that $10M to charity.
Not surprised.
Ian Hachett..... LOL.......
for Justice Dept.... you have yer; Loretta LYNCH’s.... LOL
Brinkley has described Obama as “a president with a steel backbone...”
I was trying to come up with that myself.
Earlier today Chris Mathews asked if there were any black people at the rally. Trump is racist has become a talking point. It won’t work.
FYI Brinkley—George wallace was a democrat
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