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Asian American candidates join fight to oust GOP
Monterey Herald ^ | 05/10/18 | Janie Har

Posted on 05/11/2018 6:09:35 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Members of the country’s fastest growing minority group are running for federal office, dozens of them as Democratic candidates deliberately playing up their Asian roots against a president they say demonizes the immigrants that make America great.

(Excerpt) Read more at montereyherald.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; asianamericans; dncstrategy; immigration
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“It is literally the moment that I realized my daughter’s first president is going to be Donald Trump, and knowing that when he wants to ‘Make America Great Again,’ he wants a few less people that look like us around,”


This being said while President Trump was rescuing 3 Asian Americans from North Korean prisons. Sometimes actions speak louder than words.

1 posted on 05/11/2018 6:09:35 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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I have yet to meet an Asian family that came to America to be socialists


2 posted on 05/11/2018 6:10:56 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


3 posted on 05/11/2018 6:13:47 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: silverleaf

Exactly.

The Asian-Americans I’ve met over the years were industrious and owned their own businesses.


4 posted on 05/11/2018 6:15:07 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Washington is NOT a swamp.....It's a cesspool!)
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To: silverleaf
In my experience it's usually extremely wealthy Asians who turn socialist (and only some of them do so).

I'm guessing most of those running for office are from this small sub-set of Asian-Americans.

5 posted on 05/11/2018 6:15:37 AM PDT by WayneS
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"...that when he wants to ‘Make America Great Again,’ he wants a few less people that look like us around,”

What the actual @$$ is this douche nozzle talking about?

6 posted on 05/11/2018 6:16:01 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should care less about who we may offend and care more about who we may inspire.)
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To: silverleaf
I have yet to meet an Asian family that came to America to be socialists

That has been my experience also.

7 posted on 05/11/2018 6:16:04 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: artichokegrower

Fake news


8 posted on 05/11/2018 6:16:15 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: artichokegrower

When did Trump ever “demonize the immigrants that make America great?” I’ve heard him condemn the tresspassers and criminals who make America WEAK, but it seems to me he has praised those legitimate IMMIGRANTS who make a positive contribution.


9 posted on 05/11/2018 6:16:27 AM PDT by IronJack (A)
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To: artichokegrower

Yes,... President Trump said over and over how he wants “less people that look like them”...

And they can produce sound clips that prove that, right?

I didn’t think so.

This is called “yellow journalism” - probably a politically incorrect term these days.


10 posted on 05/11/2018 6:16:34 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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I have yet to meet an Asian family that came to America to be socialists

Or sneaked in illegally. This article deliberately ignores the fact that the GOP is against *ILLEGAL* immigration. They dishonestly conflate all immigration with illegal immigration.

11 posted on 05/11/2018 6:16:36 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: silverleaf
Me either - the Asians I know in Arizona, includng the public office-holders, are all Republicans.

That said, the Democrats are great at finding slimy opportunists among every ethnic group and then exalting them as “the voices of their communities.”

12 posted on 05/11/2018 6:17:14 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: artichokegrower
Members of the country’s fastest growing minority group are running for federal office, dozens of them as Democratic candidates deliberately playing up their Asian roots against a president they say demonizes the immigrants that make America great.

Stuff like the above is why they're called the lying, liberal lamestream media.

What pure, unadulterated bullshit. (Pardon my language.)

13 posted on 05/11/2018 6:18:42 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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What is the rule about "Second Generation Immigrants" again?

I think that is what we are seeing here.

14 posted on 05/11/2018 6:18:57 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: artichokegrower

AND he’s trying to rescue ALL of the North Korean people from a bleak future.

Personally, I suspect that this is rather “fake news”.


15 posted on 05/11/2018 6:21:25 AM PDT by NEMDF
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The problem is that most Republicans don’t speak ‘Asian’ (as they see it) and they haven’t yet found anyone who does - so they’re stuck, being unable to communicate with them.

But if they ever could figure it out, they’d find that they have a HUGE pool of potential voters - if for no other reason than the Democrat QUOTAS (i.e., limits) on the number of Asians allowed in universities.

But I don’t hold much hope for the Republicans - they still haven’t found that one person who can speak ‘Asian’.


16 posted on 05/11/2018 6:22:48 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: WayneS
In my experience it's usually extremely wealthy Asians who turn socialist (and only some of them do so).

It's been my experience, and my observation of history, that the same is true for Occidentals. Wealth always brings in socialist tendencies. It's because wealth disconnects one from real world concerns. This is also why wealthy people are often characterized as "eccentric."

In the book "Leftism Revisited", the author points out that the French Revolution was funded and encouraged by the Wives and Children of the Wealthy French Aristocracy.

Marx was from a Wealthy Family. Mao was from a Wealthy Family. Castro was from a Wealthy Family. Lenin was from a Wealthy family. In fact, I had some difficulty finding a socialist revolutionary that was *NOT* from a wealthy family.

Children of privilege turning socialist is a very common phenomena.

17 posted on 05/11/2018 6:23:26 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Guilt also plays a part. Some people born into wealth or who acquire wealth think that they do not deserve it somehow, or they think that Left wing politics will somehow link them with the “Common Man.”


18 posted on 05/11/2018 6:29:33 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: silverleaf

Their kids didn’t come here, though.


19 posted on 05/11/2018 6:33:05 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: artichokegrower

California and working for the gubermint. Identity politics still on sale?


20 posted on 05/11/2018 6:41:31 AM PDT by the_daug
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