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Ex-GOP Rep After Attending Trump Rally: The Most Homogeneous Environment Ive Been in in Decadesby Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Jul 31st, 2018, 11:57 pm
On Tuesday night, former Florida congressman and now-MSNBC commentator David Jolly shared his experience attending the Trump rally in Tampa.
The #NeverTrump Republican began by slamming the verbal assaults to the press, specifically referring to the heckling CNN reporter Jim Acosta faced earlier in the evening and noting the excitement of the crowd when President Donald Trump used what he described was anti-immigration rhetoric and the revival of the Lock Her Up chants aimed at Hillary Clinton.
What was most remarkable to me though, and probably the thing that I will never forget and I am wrestling with tonight is how homogeneous the crowd was, Jolly told Brian Williams. And we can decide whether or not we want to assign culpability to the president for cultivating a constituency that tonight was 99% caucasian, working class, or is that a broader national conversation we need to have. But Ill be honest with you. And I gut check myself. I asked friends and I asked other folks in the media, look around. How many African Americans, how many black Americans do we see tonight? And you could count them on one finger. And some of them were specifically positioned for camera shots.
Jolly declared that this was a white working class audience and gave Trump credit since they felt he was speaking for them, not just to them.
Look, the Tampa Bay community is a very diverse community. I represented a very diverse community, Jolly continued. I walked into a rally tonight that was probably the most homogeneous environment Ive been in in decades.
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Squinch
(50,955 posts)I wish people would learn the difference.
Docreed2003
(16,863 posts)Ezior
(505 posts)So there was exactly one African American, and "some of them" were positioned for camera shots.
It's a nice way to put it.
Clearly something is wrong with the "white trash" community.
Wounded Bear
(58,666 posts)They need to start telling Trump to fuck off and start panning the crowd.
LonePirate
(13,424 posts)I have no certainty that is why they were there but it is within the realm of possibility.
Wounded Bear
(58,666 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)To pay their hospital bill. I watched one of the videos from last night, there was genuine hatred in that hall. Soon enough, that hatred will be immediately turned on a nonwhite face.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)Michael Symonette. Look him up. He actually was charged with murder at one point.
His group has absolutely outlandish beliefs, like attacking Cherokee Indians for whatever reason and claiming that Oprah is literally the devil.
I remember him protesting outside a Hillary speech I attended and he was going off on how Hillary was a "Rothschild". So, yeah......
Wounded Bear
(58,666 posts)Trump always has a few black folks seated behind him so the camera can pick up how "diverse" his crowds are.
As I said above, the media needs to pan the crowd more.
DemoTex
(25,399 posts)Try "homophobic."
spanone
(135,844 posts)dalton99a
(81,515 posts)Solly Mack
(90,771 posts)For obvious reasons.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I realize they don't vote their numbers, and that a fair number are white and thus hard to pick out, but if this journalist is going to talk about homogeneity he should have looked more carefully.
Unfortunately, other observers and pollsters are reporting adherence to this administration among conservative Hispanics in spite of everything. Unfortunately, the comments I've read have not broken attitudes down between white and non-white Hispanic citizens. The people persecuted by Trump, torn apart, jailed as criminals, with children put in cages, are of course predominantly indigenous Americans. One would think even trumpsters of that heritage would take it personally.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)lol. These people are fools. The guy doesnt give two shits about them
Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)this romantic notion that is put forward by "working class."
I suspect there was both a healthy does of people who lean HARD on the government for cash assitance and or medical care, as well as people who are of the means that would not qualify them as "working class."
Just giving the freak show too much credit to make one of the descriptors being "working class," assigns too much of an affirmative nature to them.