Donald Trump Delivers Dark, Fear-Mongering RNC Speech

[TomCADem]

Source: Rolling Stone

"Who would have believed," a year ago, Trump asked, "we would have gotten more votes than any Republican nominee in history?" Who indeed.

His speech was a survey of our troubling and dangerous times; things were bad already, he said, and on their way to getting worse. "Our plan will put America First. Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo. As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America First, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect."

(As right-wing watchdog Media Matters pointed out in an email blast before Trump took the stage, those words were a dog whistle for fans of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones; “globalists” are a favorite boogeyman of Jones, and his rally earlier this week was called "America First.&quot

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The world is in a sorry state, Trump said. "Poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad." He listed off a litany of problems, many of which, he said, Clinton was directly responsible for: ISIS, the decimation of Libya, Benghazi (naturally). He said Egypt, Iraq and Syria had descended into chaos, while Iran is about to have its hands on nuclear weapons.

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[MichiganVote]

1. Well since the media reported his every sneeze, what's surprising???

[AKing]

2. Great Speech! said the old white guys that don't know how to use google

[truthisfreedom]

3. So I'm glad I missed that uplifting-sounding experience!

My oh my, can that guy talk policy. I know so much about his plan that my brain will implode soon.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. If that rant

were delivered on a soap box on a street corner he'd be locked up for incoherence

[markj757]

5. Not only was it the worst Presidential race baiting acceptance speech I ever heard in my life......

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but as a black person, and I'm sure many Latinos feel the same way, it was filled with the type of coded dog whistle racist fear mongering language which reminded me of the type of speeches my parents must have had to listen to from major political presidential candidates before I was born. Its a speech that white supremacist would love, and I say this with absolute sincerity, I was horrified by it because it came from the Republican Presidential Nominee, and not someone like David Duke (who posted on social media all the reasons he loved the speech). And if a majority of white people don't understand why I feel the way I do, then that disturbs me even more. Because we definitely have not come as far in race relations as I have assumed all my life.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I particularly liked his promise to protect LGBTQ people

from 'foreign ideology'. Big out for all his evangelical supporters to keep on wanting to execute the gays.

[pampango]

7. Back to the 1920's. "Americanism" not globalism". Take that FDR.

This guy is a throwback to a bygone era.

I say we throw him back.