Posted on 11/28/2015 6:09:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump, as many people on the left and even some on the right agree, is undoubtedly and intentionally making controversial remarks on cultural, racial and religious issues.
But what's emerged as the more complicated question is whether Trump's supporters agree with all of his remarks. Are at least some of Trump's backers, as many liberals argue, racist or intolerant? In interviews, Trump supporters often say they like the mogul's blunt approach, that he "tells it like it is," without always detailing what "it is" that Trump is explaining so clearly.
In some ways, the Trump question is an extension of the debate over the last seven years about what drives the intense opposition on the right to President Obama. Some liberals, particularly at the height of the Tea Party's influence in 2009 and 2010, argued that conservative movement was a reaction to the election of a black president.
Members of the Tea Party angrily rebutted these charges, arguing they disagreed with Obama's policies and were not motivated by racial animus.
Pollsters, while not directly querying Trump supporters about their views on racial issues, have asked a number of questions over the last few months that help explain the perspectives of Trump's base. Here's what they've found:
1. Trump supporters are nearly all white, like the supporters of the other GOP candidates.
Most national polls and polls in Iowa and New Hampshire of the GOP field don't even include breakdowns of voters by race. Why? About 90 percent of Republicans are white, as are more than 90 percent of people in Iowa and New Hampshire, the two states where much of the polling of the GOP field is done.
Trump supporters are overwhelmingly white, but this does not distinguish them at all from Republicans who back other GOP candidates.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Members of the Tea Party angrily rebutted these charges, arguing they disagreed with Obama’s policies and were not motivated by racial animus.”
I don’t think we are even going to reach agreement with NBC as to what constitutes “racial animus.”
Merry Christmas
Ergo, according to the NBCDeduction, if you are a Trump backer OR a Republican, you are racist.
NBC used to be a pretty prestigious news organization years and years ago. Today they are nothing more than Liberal hacks, and they aren’t very good at that.
These idiots still think that no one has any grounds for dissenting against this guy outside of racism?
I think this guy is in for a shock at the number of black supporters that will be voting for The Donald. Not to mention Dems in general.
The racist narrative will be automatically applied to any Republican nominee so why worry about it?
Just wow.
And media wonders why they’re not taken seriously....
Bernie Sander's supporters are nearly all white.
The ONLY candidate bringing in large numbers of blacks is Hillary Clinton...
Why? Because traditionally blacks vote as a bloc for the establishment democrat.
This year white evangelical Christians are supporting a black neurosurgeon... Ben Carson. The truth is NBC hates conservatives... they've been known to doctor tapes to push their racial hatred of white conservatives.
What NBC wants to convince you that “[insert candidate name] Supporters Think” ... so you won’t want to be one!
At Thanksgiving dinner a college student nephew called Trump a Nazi for his comments about registering Muslims.
I said “wow” that’s a strong word to use. I asked, “What do you think of the views regarding Islam and terrorism on the far Left?”
He looked at me blank stare. “What do you mean? He asked.
“Well, you know the idea that there’s no connection at all between Islam and terrorism and the Democratic refuse to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism”
We moved on to another topic.
Too chickenshit to ask them directly, they instead flank around the prospective victims asking them questions that can be wildly misinterpreted and bias-adjusted to fit their own twisted narrative.
This three letter media ghoul is one of Obama's sons who takes it upon himself to represent the entirety of those who support Trump and mischaracterize them by implication they are racists because they are white - justification enough because only #blackopinionmatters anymore.
It is insulting and if I ever saw this twit in person I'd bust him in the chops.
Your nephew would be in favor of registering Republicans....
The GOP field of candidates is far more diverse than the lily white Democrat Socialists running for president this time around. Sell a lie sell a lie...
Without the race card to play NBC has nothing. Did you notice how support for Ben Carson was totally ignore? Because Carson's conservative, NBC doesn't see him as 'black'...
In a few years NBC will look back on this and see it has a 'hate piece' against traditional Americans.
An illegal is NOT an immigrant.
A thief is NOT a house guest.
A street drug dealer is not a pharmacist...
A person who wants secure borders on their country is NOT a racist.
Has anyone ever heard Trump say anything about a “racial matter”? I haven’t.
“Well, you know the idea that there’s no connection at all between Islam and terrorism and the Democratic refuse to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorismâ€
We moved on to another topic.
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why move on to another topic? you should have continued to verbally bitch slap the retard, for his own good
...But Trump is not personally driving Republicans to care intensely about immigration. They already did...
That about sums it up.
Not only that, Trump never said it. Gullible....
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