Posted on 11/03/2018 2:43:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
With elections fast approaching, Friday’s New York Times was packed with accusations of President Trump as a racist and hostile to immigrants, most intensely in the lead story by Michael Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis. The headline deck: “Trump Invoking ‘Crisis’ at Border As Voting Nears – Message For Midterms – A Presidential Theme Is Built Around a Fear of Immigrants.”
Illegal immigrants, actually, but don’t count on the Times to ever clarify.
President Trump’s closing argument is now clear: Build tent cities for migrants. End birthright citizenship. Fear the caravan. Send active-duty troops to the border. Refuse asylum.
Immigration has been the animating issue of the Trump presidency, and now -- with the possibility that Republicans could face significant losses in the midterm elections on Tuesday -- the president has fully embraced a dark, anti-immigrant message in the hope that stoking fear will motivate voters to reject Democrats.
In a rambling speech on Thursday afternoon that was riddled with falsehoods and vague promises to confront a “crisis” at the border, Mr. Trump used the official backdrop of the White House to step up his efforts to demonize a caravan of Central Americans that has been making its way through Mexico, assail Democrats, and promote a vision of a United States that would be better off with fewer immigrants.
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He repeated his oft-stated, misleading description of the situation south of the border, saying that “large, organized caravans” are heading toward the United States, filled with “tough people, in many cases.”
The reporters stuck up for the Democrats.
“Democrats want to spend your money and give away your resources for the benefit of anyone but American citizens,” he charged falsely, crystallizing his fear-mongering closing message: “If you don’t want America to be overrun by masses of illegal immigrants and massive caravans, you better vote Republican.”
Still, the president’s dark rhetoric has clearly put some Democratic candidates on the defensive, especially in conservative states where Mr. Trump won by wide margins in 2016....
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But details aside, Mr. Trump is betting that a relentless focus on the threat he envisions from immigrants crossing the Mexican border, combined with his repeated assertion that Democrats are to blame for letting them into the country, will energize conservative supporters. And he is hoping that the dark imagery will not alienate suburban voters -- especially women --who have already been abandoning Republicans in droves.
It is a risky bet. Last year, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia lost after running dark ads warning of the dangers of marauding MS-13 gangs in the state. And the president’s determined effort to shift the conversation away from issues like low unemployment, tax cuts, conservative Supreme Court justices and reduced regulation has worried many Republicans.
Another front-page story in Friday’s Times confidently declared “G.O.P.’s Image Losing Appeal In the Suburbs – Divisive Language by Trump Repels Voters.” Reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns claimed:
The president amplified his fear-peddling Wednesday night with an online video that is being widely condemned as racist, showing a Mexican man convicted of killing two California deputies with a voice-over saying “Democrats let him into the country.”
Also on Friday, Patricia Mazzei and Stephanie Saul tried to paint Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis as racist in “Trump Favorite in Florida Struggles to Rise After Racial Stumbles.”
Thrust into a marquee race in a purple state, however, Mr. DeSantis floundered.
In a Fox interview the day after the Aug. 28 primary, he said electing Mr. Gillum, 39, could “monkey this up,” which Democrats denounced as a racist dog whistle. (Mr. DeSantis denied that.) News reports exposed how far-right extremists were among the organizers and attendees of some of the conferences he frequented. A white supremacist group targeted Mr. Gillum with offensive robocalls. A campaign contributor apologized for referring to former President Barack Obama with a racist slur, but Mr. DeSantis declined to return his donation.
Mr. DeSantis managed to regroup from that rough start. But the controversies have cast a shadow over his campaign.
Thanks to outlets like the Times. They weren’t done making links to conservative figures they found distasteful:
During the candidates’ last debate, Mr. DeSantis angrily rejected a question about his ties to a conservative author, David Horowitz, who has made incendiary statements.
Just say NYeT to an arm of the CPUSA...
“Immigration has been the animating issue of the Trump presidency, and now — with the possibility that Republicans could face significant losses in the midterm elections on Tuesday — the president has fully embraced a dark, anti-immigrant message in the hope that stoking fear will motivate voters to reject Democrats.”
That short paragraph from the Slimes article reeks of DESPERATION. The left is ratcheting up and going overboard on the race card, which is a sure sign they know they’re in trouble.
Even if you are somewhat politically neutral, you can't help but notice the very strong bias against Trump and the Republicans.
This is why Yahoo and all other major news organizations have no credibility left. If they report that the sky is blue, lots of people will go outside to check and confirm.
Just pathetic.
Very well said.
Can’t see how defending our borders, language, and culture is “dark”.
nyt is crazed.
There is no famine in the Ukraine. It is all a myth. - Walter Duranty
How many times over and over and over again are they going to tell us Trump is blah, blah, blah. Same old crap from the people who really are what they accuse Trump of being.
What is even worse is that they are too freakin’ ignorant to see that none of it has worked at all...ever...they failed.
I see the Fake Media is back to calling Trump and his agenda “dark”.
Don’t they have a thesaurus at hand? Geez.
The NYT is an open joke now. It’s only a matter of time until it has fewer customers than CNN.
Hooray!!!
Last year, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia lost after ... warning of ... marauding MS-13 gangs in the state////
One thing to make charges in a campaign ad, another to see thousands of peons waving their flags on the 6 o’clock news.
The rats are scared to death of the caravans. Kavanaugh galvanized the right but the caravans are galvanizing the center.
They keep convincing the same 35% of the country to hate Trump, but bring nobody new to the camp. Let them bleat.
Initially here in Australia the reporting of th caravan made it would arrive any day and it definitely seemed it would make it by the midterms. The media changed its tune today reporting that it will not arrive for about a month. Why the narrative change? I have to believe that all the reporting online over the suspicious nature of the caravan, the convenient timing etc has gotten put to enough people that the plans have changed. So no pictures of soldiers beating people or kids with blood gushing from a headwound they are going to have to make do with accusations of racism. Ha what a disappointment I t must be for them.
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Only evil people would hate this much for so long.
Time to put people with TDS on the no fly list.
No he didn't.
He blinked: Drink more N-e-s-t-l-e-s because it's the very best. 8>)
Trump lived his entire life in NYC and employed thousands. Never was he accused of being a racist, anti-semite, etc. The NYTimes knows that it is lying.
Fear.
They never discuss the issues. I thought Democrats wanted to talk about them? Silly me.
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