Republican Strategist: Of Course Donald Trump is Blatantly Pandering to White Supremacists
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Well, on Tuesday, Republican strategist Rick Wilson addressed the latest controversy from the Trump campaign concerning an anti-Semitic symbol that was used in an attack against Hillary Clinton. Wilson didn’t defend Trump like so many on the right have. Instead, he called out the presumptive Republican nominee for basing a good portion of his campaign’s message on pandering to white supremacist groups.
“This is a guy who understands that the center of his play is this deeply resentful, edge case group of people who really believe that the Jews control the world, and that white nationalism is the future of American politics,” Wilson told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. “And they range in sophistication from, you know, the guys who are fairly clever race-baiters who try to stay out of the dirtier slums to the crazies in mom’s basement screaming for hot pockets and a new Holocaust.”
Hayes then stated that normally something like this would be harmlessly dismissed as an oversight by someone in the campaign, except this sort of thing has happened far too often since Trump launched his campaign to be dismissed as just a “coincidence.”
Wilson then mocked the excuse Trump tried to use, claiming that it wasn’t a Star of David — but a “sheriff’s badge.” “As I put it, the dominant semiotic weight of a Star of David over a pile of money is not ‘a sheriff,’” Wilson quipped, “This is a guy who understands this. These people know what’s going on.”
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