Posted on 01/05/2024 1:46:06 PM PST by libh8er
BETTENDORF, Iowa — At a campaign event this week, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy touted an endorsement by a disgraced former congressman who lost his election after defending white nationalism. He refused to directly condemn white supremacy. And he said he didn’t recognize the name of Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who killed nine people at a historically Black church in South Carolina.
“Was there a point in our prior national history where there have been vicious forms of anti-Black or anti-Brown discrimination in this country, after the Civil War and otherwise? Yes. But you’re looking in the rearview mirror,” said Ramaswamy, while making false incendiary claims that white supremacy was a fabricated threat as he stood in front of a banner that said “TRUTH.” An entrepreneur and first-time candidate who built some momentum last year but has since faded sharply in polls of the Republican race, Ramaswamy has increasingly embraced extreme ideas, far-right individuals and causes, and debunked conspiracy theories. Barnstorming this state in the final stretch before the Iowa caucuses, some Republican strategists see his approach as a desperate ploy to garner attention as a provocateur. It’s one that is also dangerous, some experts warned, as data shows white extremist violence and threats have risen in recent years.
“While most people wouldn’t trust information coming from sources like Alex Jones or Steve King, they are more likely to trust a person like Ramaswamy who is running for the Republican Party nomination,” Jennifer Mercieca, a professor at Texas A&M University who researches democracy and rhetoric, wrote in an email. “This allows Ramaswamy to ‘launder’ narratives from the extreme rightwing fringe into the mainstream of American political discourse, which is how the extreme-right has taken over the Republican Party.”
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Yet another Meryl Kornfield fiction piece posted. Yawn.
Nope. No bias there.
i.e. he’s truthful.
What a load of BS. Another non white republican supposedly is a White supremacist.
I guess I’m a racist by not knowing somebody’s name.
The WaPo manufacturing another scarecrow for its 70 IQ audience.
The far left calls everybody “fringe” and “far right” who does not obey their orders.
Not sure how any person in the United States would have no knowledge of Dylann Roof.
MSN
This happened in June, 2015.
Since then, blacks murder on average about 40 whites EVERY MONTH.
I know the name, but would not have remembered what he did.
Everything Republicans say is extreme but deciding what sex to be from day to day or creating 285 words to describe gender is mainstream to these lunatics.
All candidates everywhere should be asked—
Do you support DEI supremacy? At Harvard and other universities.
Do you support black supremacy?
Why should we have any more knowledge of Dylann Roof than we do of the nameless, faceless, black criminals who murder forty whites each month in this country?
What makes Roof so special?
It’s fringe and far right to disagree that white supremecy is a huge issue in the country.
Oh, they went to a college professor again for an opinion.
Nothing fringe about Vivek. He just courageously speaks the truth with no apologies. Only a libtard would dare call him fringe.
Vivek needs to grant Meryl an unedited on camera interview.
Wow, what a bunch of hornswoggle.
“...while making false incendiary claims that white supremacy was a fabricated threat”
“FALSE”
“INCENDIARY”
“FABRICATED”
And all in one clause in one sentence. She has NO way of knowing any of those things.
“What makes Roof so special?”
He walked into a church and murdered nine Christians while they were praying.
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