I didn't like George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, or John McCain...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

I didn't like George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, or John McCain , but I would have never said they were racists, xenophobes, anti-semites, or misogynists or bigotry was the focal point of their campaigns.

I would say that about Donald Trump...

[Mike Nelson]

1. I believe the three...

...knew and wanted that voter base - but they did send signals they were displeased with the bigots position in the party. Trump exposed and welcomed them to win the Republican primary. Good thing JFK and LBJ decoded to throw them out of the Democratic Party.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. I saw a startling stat...

49% of Trump voters believe African Americans are lazy.

However so do 31% of Clinton supporters !!!


The difference is she doesn't actively court them and neither did Bush, McCain, or Romney.

Trump is actively courting them.

[Mike Nelson]

4. True...

...Hillary is very actively un-courting them. That's leadership.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. Precisely

And she doesn't have the Alt-Right in her corner.

[uponit7771]

6. +1

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Sadly, I have to agree for the most part

The Republican Party in general, however, appeals to a lot of the same kind of people, just not quite as blatantly as Trump's campaign does. Unfortunately, the GOP base finally got "their" preferred candidate nominated this year.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. There are degrees of bigotry...

Just look at Alt-Right twitter pages... This goes way past your garden variety bigotry.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

16. I don't want to look at any of those (surely) awful pages

I agree with you that there are degrees of bigotry. I can't stomach any of it and could not bring myself to vote for almost any Republican out there. I could handle John McCain or Mitt Romney being POTUS moreso than Donald Trump, however.

[NWCorona]

5. I'm not so sure about Bush lol

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Probably has more to do with him not getting past what a ten year old thinks is funny...

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Probably has more do to with him not getting past what a ten year old thinks is funny, like wiping your sweat or somebody's else sweat on somebody else ,lol.

[NWCorona]

15. Even though Bush will always be suspect to me. You are probably right

He does seem like the prankster.

[NewJeffCT]

8. I've said it many times about George W. Bush

One of his few redeeming qualities was being able to find corrupt and incompetent men and women no matter their race/ethnicity:

Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Alberto Gonzalez, Harriet Myers, Elaine Chao, Rod Paige, Gale Norton, Karen Hughes, etc.

remember, The Donald's initial council of economic advisers was 13 white men.

[Wounded Bear]

11. I suspect Dubya didn't have a lot to do with selecting his cabinet...

Darth Cheney was in charge then.

[NewJeffCT]

14. I think on the national security side

Cheney was in charge. However, i can't really see Cheney picking Alberto Gonzalez and a few of W's more diverse choices.

[NYC Liberal]

12. Same Bush who made a thinly-veiled lynching joke about MLK?

[Sunlei]

13. Republican party has a basket full of rotten apples.They built trump /w their presidential campaigns

[hughee99]

17. Nothing makes someone think better of past opponents than a new election.

Just imagine 4 years from now all the posts that will have the phrase "At least Trump wasn't..."

[bigbrother05]

18. They all used dog whistles, Trump uses a bullhorn