Posted on 12/08/2015 7:37:03 PM PST by Mariner
Donald Trump continues to go where no recent candidate for president has gone before, plunging the Republican Party — and the nation — into another round in the tumultuous debate about immigration, national identity, terrorism and the limits of tolerance.
Trump’s call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States marked a sudden and sizable escalation — and in this case one that sent shockwaves around the world — in the inflammatory and sometimes demagogic rhetoric of the candidate who continues to lead virtually every national and state poll testing whom Republicans favor for their presidential nomination.
Nothing in modern politics equates with the kind of rhetoric now coming from Candidate Trump. There are no perfect analogies. One must scroll back decades for echoes, however imperfect, of what he is saying, from the populist and racially based appeals of then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace in 1968 and 1972 to the anti-Semitic diatribes of the radio preacher Charles Coughlin during the 1930s.
Historian David Kennedy of Stanford University said there are few comparisons, adding that, in branding an entire religious class of people as not welcome, Trump “is further out there than almost anyone in the annals of [U.S.] history.â€
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Because deep down inside, they all know he is going to win it all.
Nice POS scribble by Bezos’ butt buddy Dan NO Balz.
Obama plunged us here, Trump is just standing up to it.
He has more support among minorities on this issue than among whites.
Next week we'll hear even Democrats echoing these measures...
“Historian David Kennedy of Stanford University...”
Stanford? What a POS University. I’d be prouder to graduate from Acme welding school. At least it would prove I had intellect.
We have to remember that over the next four to eight years, four seats on the Supreme Court might need to be filled. This could change the calculus immensely.
Do you know ANYTHING about Stanford?
Ever heard of the Hoover Institute? You know, the one that has Condi Rice and Victor Hanson among other reputable scholars.
It's the largest conservative think tank in the world.
So lets ban all Muslims. Yippee! Our biggest enemies are the alphabet agencies, the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. They’re still going to be around taking our liberty. Once Trump and Gill Gates close up the internet, it will be even more difficult to get our liberty back.
Scholars don’t count for much on FR.
Big F’n Deal!
Go suck and egg.
What does that mean? Have you heard a SPECIFIC proposal from either to "close up the internet"?
I heard today that Google is going to start screening sites on their searches for "hate speech".
How do you know that Trumps proposal last night was not to shut Muslim Jihadi sites out of the worldwide DNS and search engines?
Your allusion appears to be nefarious, but I'm listening.
You said...
“He has more support among minorities on this issue than among whites.”
I noticed that , also. My guess is the Muslims would more likely end up in their neighborhoods than rural or even suburban stress were whites are more likely to reside in
Stress=areas
I'm sure you meant AN egg.
But, consider it done. And I washed it down with Jamesons.
*Ouch!*
Do you have any idea if that poll is linked anywhere on the internet?
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