Posted on 01/27/2016 3:23:08 AM PST by RoosterRedux
They are showing up in droves to see Donald Trump: Men and women, overwhelmingly white, frustrated with the country's first black president, fearful that they are being displaced by minorities and immigrants, and nostalgic for the way America used to be.
And Trump is thriving, tapping into the fears and anxieties that have erupted into the open in an extraordinary presidential campaign.
The voters pledging their allegiance to the Republican front-runner hail from all corners of the country. They work on farms, in nursing homes and run small businesses; they've voted for Mitt Romney and Barack Obama and participated in the tea party movement; they are high school students who will vote for the first time this November and retirees and veterans who came of age during World War II.
In Trump, these people see the next president of the United States.
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Bickie Mason, a contractor from Lyman, South Carolina, who attended Trump's Spartanburg rally in November, said he felt he didn't have a choice but to agree with Trump's idea of tracking Muslim-Americans through a national database.
"I don't believe all Muslims are bad. But anybody can turn bad, and you've got to be able to locate them and know where they're at," said Mason, 64.
Trump's Muslim ban has unleashed more visceral reactions, including unambiguously hostile views toward Islam.
His supporters across the country -- from Iowa to New Hampshire to South Carolina -- told CNN in interviews they simply believe Islam is not a peaceful religion.
"Islam is not a religion. It's a violent blood cult. OK?" said Hoyt Wood, a 68-year-old military veteran waiting to hear Trump speak aboard the U.S.S. Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. "All they know is violence, that's all they know."
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“overwhelmingly white, frustrated with the country’s first black president”
Oh yeah, some people on FR, you just keep acting like talking on these media losers is just soooooooo stupid and a sign of being “scared”.
I found Megan McCain on the radio last night. She said a Plummer came to her house and said he voted for Obama twice - this time he’s voting for Trump. Needless to say she was shocked ... Lol !!!
GO TRUMP
Just making the joke.
So, what does a Plummer do, straighten out the house?
> frustrated with the country’s first black president
We are NOT frustrated with the color of his skin.
We are frustrated with the color of his ideology. RED.
We would’ve been a lot happier with Alan Keyes or Herman Cain as first black president.
Even my dog is voting for Trump and when I asked him why, he said, “Because I like that son of a b-tch!”
It’s true, it’s true.
I gotta laugh at Kinky Friedman’s take on this election. He said he’s supporting Bernie Sanders because it will be the first time a Jewish family moves into a house that a black family is vacating. LMAO.
How many liberal PC morons does it take to write an article for CNN?
4 apparently.
Check that. 5.
Exactly
Damn that’s funny
I’d have loved to see Herman Cain or Lt. Col. West as they love this country and are Conservatives as president before the commie DUMBO.
No, he just throws footballs (Ex-Denver QB).
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