Jonathan Weisman misses the point.
May. 26th, 2016 09:14 pmThe quote:
To be a Republican or Christian in the USA, for the last decade[1], is to enthusiastically embrace white supremacy, antisemitism, misogyny, bigoted nationalism, and violence.
[1]: At least. Arguments that it has gone farther back than that are taken as given, I'm assuming the most generous possible interpretation of the most generous possible level of complete obliviousness to the toxic effects of the position.
stories of Muslims assaulted by Trump supporters are piling up. Hispanic immigrants are lining up for citizenship, eager to vote. Groups that have been maligned over centuries at different times in different regions now share a common tormentor, the alt-right, a militant agglomeration of white nationalists, racists, anti-Semites and America Firsters that have been waging war on the Republican establishment for some timeThe error: This isn't the "alt-right", it's just the right. It's what to be an American Christian and a Republican *means*. And they haven't been waging war on the "Republican establishment", they've been enthusiastically embraced by the established Republicans, for half a fucking century.
To be a Republican or Christian in the USA, for the last decade[1], is to enthusiastically embrace white supremacy, antisemitism, misogyny, bigoted nationalism, and violence.
[1]: At least. Arguments that it has gone farther back than that are taken as given, I'm assuming the most generous possible interpretation of the most generous possible level of complete obliviousness to the toxic effects of the position.