GOP frontrunner will never give up racist pandering — because it’s working

[struggle4progress]

FRIDAY, SEP 18, 2015 04:34 PM EDT
BOB CESCA

... For Trump’s disciples, it simply doesn’t matter that there’s no evidence whatsoever to prove that Obama wasn’t born where he and official documents say he was born ...

... 61 percent of Trump supporters think Obama was born in Kenya, while 66 percent believe he’s a Muslim. And these people vote. They’ve been so completely misinformed by this overpaid carnival goon and the other conspiracy theorists that they still believe after all these years that the birth certificate is fake and that Obama’s parents perpetrated a hoax — somehow knowing he’d one day run for president. Worse yet, only 29 percent of Republicans overall think Obama was born inside the United States ...

As long as it’s politically advantageous for Trump to pander to this nonsense, he’ll absolutely keep doing it. It doesn’t matter to him how badly he’s flamed on Twitter or how brutally he’s excoriated on MSNBC. As long as the vast majority of Republicans wrongly question Obama’s origins, he’ll stand by all of it. His entire campaign is built upon telling Republicans exactly what they want to hear regardless of how horrendous it sounds to everyone else. And as of right now, it’s working.

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/18/donald_trumps_xenophobic_genius_the_gop_frontrunner_will_never_give_up_racist_pandering_because_its_working/

[world wide wally]

1. I just keep wondering about Trumps conversion to the Republican party

after looking into it casually, I think it was when Obama cut him down at the press conference dinner. I swear that he vowed some kind of vengeance against Democrats at that point because his ego would not let him laugh at himself like everyone else at that party

in the end……. Obamas jokes will all ring true

[malaise]

2. It will only work for the fringe

Rational folks cringe.

[Victor_c3]

3. I'm reasonably convinced that Obama was born outside of the US (of course sarcastic)

Did you look at the pictures of his birth certificate? It looked real - maybe a little too real. If he were really born outside of the US, wouldn't he have a really really good looking fake birth certificate? That proves he was born in another country!

[pampango]

4. Unfortunately it seems to work everywhere. The right in Europe uses racism effectively too.

Something about the conservative mindset and racism (and its first cousin, xenophobia) seem to go together.