Posted on 08/12/2017 2:52:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A top Democratic National Committee leader called the Republican Party "the party of racism" at a conference for liberal activists Friday, pointing to President Donald Trump's positions on immigrants and refugees.
"You hear Republicans say, 'We're the party of Lincoln.' He wouldn't recognize these people," said Rep. Keith Ellison, a congressman from Minnesota and Democratic National Committee deputy chairman. "The fact is that the Republican Party today is the party of racism. Now I'm not saying every Republican is a racist, but I'm saying their party does hold that up. ... It is the Republican Party in 2017 that says, 'wall them off, ban them out, no transgender in the military.' If it's mean, if it's racist, if it's greedy, it's coming from them."
Ellison was speaking as part of a panel discussion at the Netroots Nation conference, an annual gathering for liberal activists. Ellison was the only representative from the party on the panel, and he made the comments after criticism from fellow panelists of Democrats, especially after the bruising primary fight in 2016 and failure to take control of the White House.
In response to this criticism from progressives of his party, Ellison argued that the Democratic Party was the best vessel of power those on the left have available to fulfill their goals.....
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You can run from your history, Keith; but you can’t hide.
Projection. The DEMS always pigeon-hole and sort people by race and what they deem as affiliation.
No country in history has ever survived by allowing invaders to move in and take over, unchecked.
And transgenders were never in the military prior to Obama.
What we see here is a prime example of leftist revisionism. Transgenders never have been allowed in the military, and Obama's parting shot to further damage the military was to issue an executive order that "transgenders" would be allowed. This policy has never been enacted. And now that Trump has said it will not be enacted, the leftists are acting as if they've been there all along and now Trump is unfairly kicking them out.
This is much like the chicanery that got gays into the military. Bill Clinton gave them a way in through the "don't ask don't tell" policy, and when Obama changed the policy to allow them to join openly, the leftist press described it as "overturning" the don't ask don't tell policy (as if gays had always joined openly until Bill Clinton made them hide), instead of correctly describing Obama's action as expanding the policy of allowing gays in the military.
Yes. I welcome and encourage the unhinged drama queen leftists to please up their ante on their antics.
Sorry racist Keith but the Democrats are the party of racism. Their decades of welfare creating the ghettos, voting against the Civil Right Act, being slave owners in the South, calling Black Republicans “Uncle Tom,” and I could go on and on.
Ellison sounds like a a capsizeable island.....
Tell this Mooselimb Liar to STFU! ...
Projection. Democrats always are projecting their sins on everybody else. Nobody is more racist than they are.
OK, CNN, I'll correct it for you:
said Rep. Keith Ellison, a congressman from Minnesota and Democratic National Committee deputy chairman. Ellison, who has an ugly history of making anti-Semitic statements and praising violence committed by left-wing extremist groups and groups promoting intolerance and racial hatred such as Black Lives Matters...
DNC party of Commie racists.
Keith Ellison is a muslim. Current slave traders and terrorists. He is also a member of the democrat party who created the KKK and continue to enslave the blacks using welfare and divisive politics.
Dems haven’t been this unhinged since the republicans freed the slaves.
Well, when republicans helped pass the civil rights act (over democrat filibusters in the senate) they were pretty unhinged too....
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