Donald Trump is operating straight from the white supremacist playbook

[n2doc]

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...It was much more, though, than a feel-good, I-have-seen-the-light interview. Black explained the white supremacist movement's recruiting strategy, which, he said, necessarily involved some self-concealment.

"We told people all the white nationalist talking points, without necessarily saying that we're white nationalists," he said.

"My whole talk was the fact that you could run as Republicans and say things like we need to shut down immigration, we need to fight affirmative action, we need to end globalism, and you could win these positions, maybe as long as you didn't get outed as a white nationalist."

Sound familiar?

The plain fact is that America now has a president who operates straight from the white supremacist playbook. At the very least, Donald Trump and his most rabid followers have been objective allies of the white supremacist movement, even if they thought they weren't. Vladimir Lenin would have called them "useful idiots."



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http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/donald-trump-playbook-1.4265374

[uponit7771]

1. Yeap, Gorka and Bannon seem like the ones who were holding his overtly racist ass back

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Where my theory fell flat.

I guessed that Trump would say whatever was necessary to get elected and would dilute his rhetoric once he got in. The playbook I envisioned was that he would abandon the white supremacists and racists to build a larger base and to even pick up a few independents. He's still governing for a minority of a political minority.

[dawg]

5. I think he's speaking for the majority of the Republican Party.

Am I being unkind? Unrealistic?

What else could explain the current state of affairs?

[Botany]

4. I might be wrong but Trump flashes a "White Power" hand sign when he speaks too.

n/t

[world wide wally]

6. Constantly

[nycbos]

7. "If you can convince the lowest white man he is better than...

... the best colored man he won't notice you picking his pockets. Give him someone to look down upon and he will gladly open his pockets for you."

-LBJ

[AlexSFCA]

8. this is his base

that won't abandon him no matter what.
Trump has been seriously planning his presidential campaign since 1987 long before Bannon. What's interesting is that in 2000, he said Oprah would be his ideal running mate. I think that a convinced white supremacist would not have made such a statement. And he distanced himself from Reform Party because of Buchannan's racist views whom he called Hitler's lover. Trump appeared to have transitioned from nationalism to white nationalism. This could be because one can't be effectively separated from the other in the US.