Democrats Have Always Called Republicans "Racists" and Other Vile Names

Before Donald Trump The Left Accused Conservatives of Being "racist," "homophobe," "sexist," "mean-spirited," "insensitive" and much more.

FDR was retroactively insinuating that Calvin Coolidge was a Nazi in 1944, and Walter Cronkite was doing the same to Barry Goldwater 20 years later. A lie repeated for three-quarters of a century...

When the Newt Gingrich-led Republicans wanted to cut taxes and pursue welfare reform in the mid-nineties, the New York Times excoriated Gingrich for his "race-based, anger-charged politics" and compared him to southern segregationist George Wallace.

Harlem's Democratic congressman Charles Rangel attacked Republican tax cuts as pure race hatred. "It's not 'spic' or 'nigger' anymore," Rangel growled. "They say, 'Let's cut taxes.' "

Speaking on ABC's This Week, feminist and high-paid Gore consultant Naomi Wolf casually accused George W. Bush's "advisors" by whom she meant City Journal's editors of being "racist." Wolf's evidence? The truthful observation that some members of the underclass, because of their dysfunctional worldview, ignore the economic opportunities blossoming all around them.

After the Republicans won the House in 1994 President Clinton said that "What [conservative Republicans] want to do," President Clinton said, "is make war on the kids of this country."

Left-leaning host Bryant Gumbel asked liberal children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman a classic leading question: "In light of the new welfare-reform bill, do you think the children need more prayers than ever before?"

Former Democratic New York governor Mario Cuomo evoked the image of "Republican storm-troopers."

Another New York Democrat, Congressman Major Owens, went further: "These are the people," he thundered, "who are practicing genocide with a smile: they're worse than Hitler."

A crazed nut-job attacked a practice of the congressional GOP baseball team. The hatred that drove 66-year-old James Hodgkinson to attempt a massacre of the Republican baseball team was that Republicans are sub-human haters. That hatred has been fermented by the Democratic Party...

Democrats have portrayed their Republican opposition as sub-human, narcissistic, greedy, rich, fat-cat, corporate chieftains and/or hillbilly, gun-toting, women-hating, religious fanatics, and racist xenophobes who hate Jews and want to reinstitute slavery.

Biden, speaking to a group of black supporters, told them that Republicans want to "put ya'll back in chains."

I could go on with examples like this all day.

This sort of rhetoric has not really changed since Pres. Trump was elected.

Instapundit >> Blog Archive >> FLASHBACK 2001: Before Donald Trump The Left Accused Conservatives of Being “racist,” “homophobe,” “…

Oh yes...it DID change since Trump was elected...they ramped it up about 1000%.

LowDown said:

Before Donald Trump The Left Accused Conservatives of Being "racist," "homophobe," "sexist," "mean-spirited," "insensitive" and much more.

FDR was retroactively insinuating that Calvin Coolidge was a Nazi in 1944, and Walter Cronkite was doing the same to Barry Goldwater 20 years later. A lie repeated for three-quarters of a century...

When the Newt Gingrich-led Republicans wanted to cut taxes and pursue welfare reform in the mid-nineties, the New York Times excoriated Gingrich for his "race-based, anger-charged politics" and compared him to southern segregationist George Wallace.

Harlem's Democratic congressman Charles Rangel attacked Republican tax cuts as pure race hatred. "It's not 'spic' or 'nigger' anymore," Rangel growled. "They say, 'Let's cut taxes.' "

Speaking on ABC's This Week, feminist and high-paid Gore consultant Naomi Wolf casually accused George W. Bush's "advisors" by whom she meant City Journal's editors of being "racist." Wolf's evidence? The truthful observation that some members of the underclass, because of their dysfunctional worldview, ignore the economic opportunities blossoming all around them.

After the Republicans won the House in 1994 President Clinton said that "What [conservative Republicans] want to do," President Clinton said, "is make war on the kids of this country."

Left-leaning host Bryant Gumbel asked liberal children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman a classic leading question: "In light of the new welfare-reform bill, do you think the children need more prayers than ever before?"

Former Democratic New York governor Mario Cuomo evoked the image of "Republican storm-troopers."

Another New York Democrat, Congressman Major Owens, went further: "These are the people," he thundered, "who are practicing genocide with a smile: they're worse than Hitler."

A crazed nut-job attacked a practice of the congressional GOP baseball team. The hatred that drove 66-year-old James Hodgkinson to attempt a massacre of the Republican baseball team was that Republicans are sub-human haters. That hatred has been fermented by the Democratic Party...

Democrats have portrayed their Republican opposition as sub-human, narcissistic, greedy, rich, fat-cat, corporate chieftains and/or hillbilly, gun-toting, women-hating, religious fanatics, and racist xenophobes who hate Jews and want to reinstitute slavery.

Biden, speaking to a group of black supporters, told them that Republicans want to "put ya'll back in chains."

I could go on with examples like this all day.

This sort of rhetoric has not really changed since Pres. Trump was elected.

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Actually, today, it has nothing to do with party. We call racists racists. Honestly, it's not that difficult. For example, when someone is the leader of the racist Birther Movement, then they are a racist. And we will call them racists, because that's what they are.

The reason it so often seems to be aimed at Republicans? Perhaps you are ignorant of some American history, so let me help you. This:

Southern strategy - Wikipedia

has led to virtually all the racists being gathered under the Republican banner. Take the time to learn about your own history, a Canadian shouldn't have to explain it to you.

Mycroft said:

Oh yes...it DID change since Trump was elected...they ramped it up about 1000%.

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Yes, after Trump ramped up the racism about 1000%.

I don't understand why so many in Trump's base get upset when we point out people who are racists. Like Trump, the leader of the racist Birther Movement.

JustHanging said:

Actually, today, it has nothing to do with party. We call racists racists. Honestly, it's not that difficult. For example, when someone is the leader of the racist Birther Movement, then they are a racist. And we will call them racists, because that's what they are.

The reason it so often seems to be aimed at Republicans? Perhaps you are ignorant of some American history, so let me help you. This:

Southern strategy - Wikipedia

has led to virtually all the racists being gathered under the Republican banner. Take the time to learn about your own history, a Canadian shouldn't have to explain it to you.

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JustHanging said:

Yes, after Trump ramped up the racism about 1000%.

I don't understand why so many in Trump's base get upset when we point out people who are racists. Like Trump, the leader of the racist Birther Movement.

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Nobody wants to admit that they are a knuckle-dragger. It's easier to blame the messenger than to actually admit that they are garbage.

JustHanging said:

Yes, after Trump ramped up the racism about 1000%.

I don't understand why so many in Trump's base get upset when we point out people who are racists. Like Trump, the leader of the racist Birther Movement.

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You don't understand because you are incapable of being honest.

So it goes...

Mycroft said:

You don't understand because you are incapable of being honest.

So it goes...

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It's a documented fact that Trump was the leader of the racist Birther Movement:

Donald Trump Clung to ‘Birther’ Lie for Years, and Still Isn’t Apologetic - The New York Times

Trump is still reportedly pushing his racist “birther” conspiracy theory about Obama - Vox

Le phénomène Trump et la racialisation de la politique américaine
(translation)
Trump’s popularity is the outcome of the Republican Party’s longtime “Southern Strategy” that goes back to Nixon if not earlier, a coded appeal to white race prejudice and bigotry.6 The new White House incumbent is decidedly the GOP’s creature and the latest symptom of its crisis, a demagogue whose outspokenness made him the hero and mouthpiece of white nationalism and helped it morph into open militancy. There is grim irony in the fact that America’s first black President was “followed by the untitled leader of the Birther movement, a candidate slow to disavow support from the Ku Klux Klan7 and happy to receive the backing of white nationalists […]”; in that sense “Donald Trump can easily be portrayed as a personal repudiation and also proof of racial regression”.8

They've provided all the links to reputable sources to support those statements. If you disagree, let me know which sources you disagree with and why.

Mycroft said:

You don't understand because you are incapable of being honest.

So it goes...

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YOU are accusing someone of being unable to be honest?! :lamo

JustHanging said:

It's a documented fact that Trump was the leader of the racist Birther Movement:

Donald Trump Clung to ‘Birther’ Lie for Years, and Still Isn’t Apologetic - The New York Times

Le phénomène Trump et la racialisation de la politique américaine
(translation)
Trump’s popularity is the outcome of the Republican Party’s longtime “Southern Strategy” that goes back to Nixon if not earlier, a coded appeal to white race prejudice and bigotry. The new White House incumbent is decidedly the GOP’s creature and the latest symptom of its crisis, a demagogue whose outspokenness made him the hero and mouthpiece of white nationalism and helped it morph into open militancy. There is grim irony in the fact that America’s first black President was “followed by the untitled leader of the Birther movement, a candidate slow to disavow support from the Ku Klux Klan and happy to receive the backing of white nationalists […]”; in that sense “Donald Trump can easily be portrayed as a personal repudiation and also proof of racial regression”.

They've provided all the links to reputable sources to support those statements. If you disagree, let me know which sources you disagree with and why.

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LOL!!

Yep. All you have to do is attach the word "racist" to anything and that justifies your race card usage.

Mycroft said:

Oh yes...it DID change since Trump was elected...they ramped it up about 1000%.

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Indeed, the racism has been ramped up. It used to be more subtle, as described by Republican strategist, Lee Atwater.

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

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Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy | The Nation

Republicans chanting "send them back" signals a change.

Has it occurred to any of the "offended" that the comments are accurate and appropriate?

JustHanging said:

Actually, today, it has nothing to do with party. We call racists racists. Honestly, it's not that difficult. For example, when someone is the leader of the racist Birther Movement, then they are a racist. And we will call them racists, because that's what they are.

The reason it so often seems to be aimed at Republicans? Perhaps you are ignorant of some American history, so let me help you. This:

Southern strategy - Wikipedia

has led to virtually all the racists being gathered under the Republican banner. Take the time to learn about your own history, a Canadian shouldn't have to explain it to you.

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Was Robert Byrd always a racist?

Manc Skipper said:

Has it occurred to any of the "offended" that the comments are accurate and appropriate?

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In a lot of cases, they aren't. You all will never comprehend that, though.

LowDown said:

Before Donald Trump The Left Accused Conservatives of Being "racist," "homophobe," "sexist," "mean-spirited," "insensitive" and much more.

FDR was retroactively insinuating that Calvin Coolidge was a Nazi in 1944, and Walter Cronkite was doing the same to Barry Goldwater 20 years later. A lie repeated for three-quarters of a century...

Instapundit >> Blog Archive >> FLASHBACK 2001: Before Donald Trump The Left Accused Conservatives of Being “racist,” “homophobe,” “…

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They weren't lies at all. Calvin Coolidge wasn't a Nazi but he used his presidential powers to discriminate against blacks, that's just a fact. Woodrow Wilson, who was a democrat, screened the 1915 racist film 'Birth of a Nation' in the White House. And of course, a movie screened at the White House was perceived as an endorsement of the film. One white supremacist in Georgia understood this implicitly. The film reignited America’s Civil War. The galloping Klan riding to the rescue. The pure spectacle of it all.

William Joseph Simmons is considered to be the founder of the 1915 modern Ku Klux Klan. He was a local preacher and while recovering from a car accident, he followed the Birth of a Nation’s nationwide success. There were KKK-inspired aprons, costumes and regalia that glorified the defunct organization. Simmons seized on the film’s popularity to bolster the Klan’s appeal again.

Barry Goldwater was most certainly a racist and employed the 'Southern strategy' in his 1964 political campaign to increase his support of Southern republicans by appealing to their racism. Powerful and ambitious politicians know their audience. Appealing to a white population through very hidden and subversive messages only divides people according to their color. Trump has done that for decades prior to becoming president and he knows it works with his base. Phrases like the one used by Ron DeSantis, "monkey this up" couldn't be a better illustration of the Southern strategy.

Former deputy campaign manager for Trump and current outside adviser to him, David Bossie was suspended from his role as contributor on Fox News because of a racial dog-whistle he made while debating a Democrat on Fox who was black. It went like this; Bossie engaged in a heated argument with Democratic strategist Joel Payne, who was angry and shot back at him, “You don’t have to be a golden retriever to hear all the dog whistles coming out of the White House these days and from my friend David here.” But Bossie crossed a line, prompting suspension from the network, as he told Payne, that “You’re out of your cotton-picking mind.” David Payne was stunned and relayed how “I have some relatives who picked cotton, and I’m not going to sit back and let you attack me on TV like that.”

That's just one example of the Southern strategy, which has been employed by presidents of both parties but more often, republican presidents. Appealing to the prejudices and resentments of the Confederacy’s grandchildren works as an electoral strategy. And no Republican presidential candidate has ever forgotten that.

That’s why Ronald Reagan spoke of a mythological “welfare queen” in 1976 and kicked off his 1980 campaign just outside the site of the Mississippi Burning murders–not to honor the three civil rights workers who were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan, with the cooperation of local police, but to declare his belief in “states’ rights.” That’s why George H.W. Bush, in the final weeks of the 1988 campaign, found one last turnout boost by airing the Willie Horton campaign ad. That’s why Bill Clinton, as the governor of Arkansas, ordered the execution of a lobotomized black man during the 1992 election. And that’s why, as George W. Bush was trailing John McCain in the 2004 primary, he tapped right-wing Christian fundamentalists to start a rumor that the Arizona lawmaker had fathered a black child.

Is it really any surprise that another Republican presidential candidate won in part because of his explicit attacks against today’s African American civil rights activists? Or that his trotting out Nixon’s exact slogans was greeted with unreserved enthusiasm from the GOP base?

The three masterminds behind the Southern strategy. Manafort, Stone and Atwater. Lee Atwater masterminded it, Manafort refined it.

Mycroft said:

You don't understand because you are incapable of being honest.

So it goes...

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Well, isn't this the stupidest post I've read in a looong time. Against strong competition, too.

Mycroft said:

LOL!!

Yep. All you have to do is attach the word "racist" to anything and that justifies your race card usage.

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I believe in attaching the word "racist" to racists. Honestly, it's not that complicated if you think about it.

I provided numerous links to reputable sites to support my position. Instead of resorting to nonsensical arguments, why don't you explain why the reputable sources are wrong?

With the anti American ding bats democrats are running in 2020 name calling is about all they have.

LowDown said:

Before Donald Trump The Left Accused Conservatives of Being "racist," "homophobe," "sexist," "mean-spirited," "insensitive" and much more.

FDR was retroactively insinuating that Calvin Coolidge was a Nazi in 1944, and Walter Cronkite was doing the same to Barry Goldwater 20 years later. A lie repeated for three-quarters of a century...

When the Newt Gingrich-led Republicans wanted to cut taxes and pursue welfare reform in the mid-nineties, the New York Times excoriated Gingrich for his "race-based, anger-charged politics" and compared him to southern segregationist George Wallace.

Harlem's Democratic congressman Charles Rangel attacked Republican tax cuts as pure race hatred. "It's not 'spic' or 'nigger' anymore," Rangel growled. "They say, 'Let's cut taxes.' "

Speaking on ABC's This Week, feminist and high-paid Gore consultant Naomi Wolf casually accused George W. Bush's "advisors" by whom she meant City Journal's editors of being "racist." Wolf's evidence? The truthful observation that some members of the underclass, because of their dysfunctional worldview, ignore the economic opportunities blossoming all around them.

After the Republicans won the House in 1994 President Clinton said that "What [conservative Republicans] want to do," President Clinton said, "is make war on the kids of this country."

Left-leaning host Bryant Gumbel asked liberal children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman a classic leading question: "In light of the new welfare-reform bill, do you think the children need more prayers than ever before?"

Former Democratic New York governor Mario Cuomo evoked the image of "Republican storm-troopers."

Another New York Democrat, Congressman Major Owens, went further: "These are the people," he thundered, "who are practicing genocide with a smile: they're worse than Hitler."

A crazed nut-job attacked a practice of the congressional GOP baseball team. The hatred that drove 66-year-old James Hodgkinson to attempt a massacre of the Republican baseball team was that Republicans are sub-human haters. That hatred has been fermented by the Democratic Party...

Democrats have portrayed their Republican opposition as sub-human, narcissistic, greedy, rich, fat-cat, corporate chieftains and/or hillbilly, gun-toting, women-hating, religious fanatics, and racist xenophobes who hate Jews and want to reinstitute slavery.

Biden, speaking to a group of black supporters, told them that Republicans want to "put ya'll back in chains."

I could go on with examples like this all day.

This sort of rhetoric has not really changed since Pres. Trump was elected.

Instapundit >> Blog Archive >> FLASHBACK 2001: Before Donald Trump The Left Accused Conservatives of Being “racist,” “homophobe,” “…

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Not all conservatives, just those who do or say racist, homophobic, and xenophobic things. If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck . . .

:yt

Manc Skipper said:

Has it occurred to any of the "offended" that the comments are accurate and appropriate?

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Shhhhh. We don't speak truth around these parts.

apdst said:

Was Robert Byrd always a racist?

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He certainly was a racist, he belonged to the KKK, and was thus one of Trump's "very fine people."

He recanted, but we will never know what was truly in his heart imo.

Logical1 said:

With the anti American ding bats democrats are running in 2020 name calling is about all they have.

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Taking a stand against racism is generally not considered "anti-American". If you think it is, you might want to give your head a shake.

Mycroft said:

LOL!!

Yep. All you have to do is attach the word "racist" to anything and that justifies your race card usage.

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I think it is the democrats' turn to laugh out loud at the ridiculously obvious display of dishonesty that the few remaining Trump apologists are attempting to hide behind:

"This feathered thing that walks like a duck and quacks like a duck is actually a cow but you're all just too dishonest to admit it."

Tweety is the Republican party, and he is a racist. do i think that every former Republican / current Trumpist is a racist? no. however, they are propping a lot of them up with their support.

Logical1 said:

With the anti American ding bats democrats are running in 2020 name calling is about all they have.

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Which candidate do you consider anti-American, and why?