Everyone Seems to be Missing the Point on the KKK and Trump

[louis c]

The point isn't just that Donald Trump is reluctant to distance himself from David Duke and the KKK, although that's abhorrent enough.

No, the point is, why do David Duke and the Klan feel compelled to support Trump in the first place.

[Vinca]

1. Well, Trump is the guy who started out trashing Mexicans, Muslims, etc.

He's a candidate perfectly suited for the Klan. What I find most amusing at this point in the race is the ferocity of the media in going after Trump. It seems suddenly they realized what they've done to this country by making MSNBC and CNN the main campaign communicators for Trump and now they're trying to stop a freight train. Good freaking luck with that.

[louis c]

4. know the answer...........

I want to hear him or the media say it.

[imanamerican63]

2. I was thinking of this too!

But it is funny how others are coming to the defense of Trump!

[louis c]

3. Here's the question the media should ask Trump

"Mr. Trump, what is it in your rhetoric or in the positions you have taken in this campaign that attracts David Duke and other members of the Ku Klux Klan to your candidacy?"

[DLnyc]

7. Well said!

There is a very direct connection between his attitude and rhetoric and the kind of creeps he's got drooling over him.

Another question: "What effect might be expected when you encourage a bunch of already deranged people to violence and hatred? Do you suppose you might be starting up a fire no one will be able to put out? Do you even fucking care?"

[Igel]

5. Stormfront is a better cudgel than the Klan.

Duke's denied association with the Klan for decades. On the grounds that they could be violent.

Byrd, a liberal senator, was also Klan affiliated for years. Until he wasn't. Assuming the past continues unaltered into the present is a serious error in thinking. Some things change, some don't, and what has and hasn't changed is, as Chomsky would say, an "empirical question."

Stormfront, on the other hand, is his puppy and is completely current. Doesn't have the same sensationalist glamor, though.

Did the Charleston killer kid have a Stormfront tie-in?

[DLnyc]

8. Trump was against the Klan before he was careful not to be too mean to them.

Donald is in a hard spot, since insulting the Klan also insults a significance portion of his following, but going too easy on the the Klan opens a window into what sort of people actually make up his support!

(Sorry, I had thought your post was about Trump, now I see it's about Duke.)

[Buzz Clik]

6. That's the point. And, it's notable that his poll numbers have been climbing since then.

Yet, the GOP never stops its whining about the "race card."