Posted on 11/23/2015 6:05:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Trump's racism is bad for Republicans now, but the eventual wild-eyed nominee will only look moderate in comparison.
Since the Donald Trump campaign kicked off with demagoguery about Mexican immigration, political watchers have been on quiet but alert fascism watch, carefully monitoring Trump to see if he steps over the line. You can feel in your bones that Trump and his supporters long for to give into the sweet oblivion of balls-out racism, rather than dealing with the tedious process of carefully measuring the lines so you can toe them without stepping so far over that liberal journalists are freed up to use the F-word.
For whatever reason, however, Trump just went there this past week, making headlines for agreeing with the Nazi-reminiscient idea of having a database to keep track of Muslims, which meant that it was game on for liberal journalists to say âfascism.â Now other Republicans are pouncing, denouncing Trump for this registry idea, portraying themselves as champions of the American ideal because they donât draw comparisons to dictators past. And therein lies the real danger that Trumpâs turn to the more belligerent represents: Not that heâll win the Republican nomination (though that is always a danger), but that he is making all of his competitors look moderate in comparison. As long as Trump keeps lowering the bar, other Republicans can wallow in all sorts of grotesque behavior, knowing that they still look pretty good in comparison....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
I guessed Salon before I clicked on it.
I think their heads are starting to explode.
Time also described Marcotte's blogging as "provocative and profanity-laced."
On January 30, 2007, the John Edwards 2008 presidential campaign hired Marcotte to act as the campaign's blogmaster.
In January 2007, Marcotte wrote controversial statements about the Duke lacrosse case, including that people who defended the accused were "rape-loving scum". A few months before all charges were dropped in the case, on a blog post titled "Stuck at the airport again....." Marcotte wrote in part, "Canât a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it? So unfair."
Amanda Marcotte: The David Duke Of Feminism | The Daily Caller
http://twitchy.com/2014/12/31/the-10-dumbest-amanda-marcotte-tweets-of-2014/
Partisan Media Scumbags alert.
What do you mean "we" Amanda?
You got rattlesnakes under your burqa?
Love her tramp stamps...
That’s a guy, baby!
This is Amanda Marcotte, whose vile blasphemy of Christ, one can only hope, will be punished in the age to come.
On January 30, 2007, the John Edwards 2008 presidential campaign hired Marcotte to act as the campaign's blogmaster. She was soon criticized for her previous work. The campaign responded that, while Edwards was "personally offended" by some of Marcotte's remarks, her job as their blogmaster was secure.The Wikipedia page contains footnotes and references within this part of the article; some are clickable. I have deleted them from this excerpt for the sake of readability.In January 2007, Marcotte wrote controversial statements about the Duke lacrosse case, including that people who defended the accused were "rape-loving scum". A few months before all charges were dropped in the case, on a blog post titled "Stuck at the airport again....." Marcotte wrote in part, "Can't a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it? So unfair." The post attracted criticism, including from The New York Times. Cathy Young described Marcotte as a leader of a "cyber-lynch mob," writing that, "in Marcotte's eyes, the real crime of the independent feminists is helping preserve the idea that the presumption of innocence applies even in cases of rape and sexual assault." Marcotte later deleted the post.
On February 12, 2007, the Catholic League called Marcotte's review of the film Children of Men "anti-Christian". Later the same day, Marcotte announced that she had resigned from the Edwards campaign, accusing Bill Donohue of a sexist perspective in the calls for her resignation. She returned to her work on other blogs. In an article for Salon a few days later, she said the reaction to her comments on the Duke lacrosse case was the first in a series of "shitstorms" that had prompted her to resign from the campaign.
From the Washington Post:
Days after Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards decided against firing two liberal bloggers with a history of inflammatory writing, one resigned last night with a blast at "right wing shills" for driving her out of the campaign.Amanda Marcotte, whose writings were assailed as anti-Catholic, wrote yesterday on her blog that the Edwards camp had accepted her resignation. She blamed her most vocal critic, Bill Donohoe, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, writing that he "and his calvacade of right wing shills don't respect that a mere woman like me could be hired for my skills, and pretended that John Edwards had to be held accountable for some of my personal, non-mainstream views on religious influence on politics," which Marcotte described as being "anti-theocracy."
I think we have almost reached the point where, except for the die-hard University Left, when the word “racism” is thrown at Republican candidates, it’s like the “Far Side” cartoon: “What we say, what dogs hear.”
Diss Trump and pump up Rubio. The left IS scared!
It’s Salon.
I don’t read Salon.
Moving to next article.
Yes, the anti-Helen: the face that sank a thousand ships.
(She's got the thousand-c*ck stare, alright...; definitely hit the wall without slowing.)
They misspelled “SLUT”.
Looks like a homemade tattoo that says, “DOG”.
Yes, Amanda is voting for Hillary so I don’t know why she wants to dominate the Republican race. She should write about Hitlery and Sandman.
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