Why don't you pick up the phone and get Hogan going? Meanwhile, everything everyone has been writing about the Dim Dems is ALL they got is the race card.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2019 10:56 amUnfortunately it's the simple truth staring us in the face.ggait wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2019 10:32 amLet's not forget that pretty much the entire GOP said/did the same thing in 2016. They just don't say it now. TAATSMy POINT is that this is a concerted effort to use racism to defeat Trump. The left has nothing else to run on.
Lindsey Graham: "He's a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot."
Mitt Romney: "Today, there is a contest between Trumpism and Republicanism. Through the calculated statements of its leader, Trumpism has become associated with racism, misogyny, bigotry, xenophobia, vulgarity and, most recently, threats and violence. I am repulsed by each and every one of these."
McCain, Flake, Corker, Paul Ryan ("textbook racism"), Rubio, Jeb, Kasich, Bill Weld, Ted Cruz, Mike Pompeo and so many others all said the same things.
May not be a winning political strategy, but pretty much everyone running against Trump sees it the exact same way. It isn't a coincidence.
I read the reporting on what the NYT's editor "said". Sure seems to me that he's acknowledged that the dominant journalistic 'story' of the past couple of years was the Russia investigation. They competed hard to get the story, to track down the connections and to report on them. They 'built the newsroom' to 'get' that story and did quite solid work, with deep, long form examinations of the Russian effort.
But post Mueller Report, now the "story" is being shaped by the most resonant current events. These too are wrapped up in Trump, his tweets, his policies. He's the President and he's the biggest elephant in the room every day...and he insists on that being the case. And those current events are all thematically tied to race relations, whether fear of demographic change, the rise of violence tied to race, to brown kids in cages, to "send her back".
The editor is acknowledging that the newsroom will need to shift resources to work on this theme, one which he acknowledges they have not been built to do as well. But he's committing those resources. That means long form examinations of the history of race relations and their implications today.
There's no escaping Trump and his being intertwined in this topic. It's his own core theme, from the birther myth, CLINTONS to Mexican rapists and criminals Mccain said the same thing, to the Muslim Ban, no Christians or 7th Day Advantagist's in any of those countries ? it's how he introduced himself and his themes to the American people. And at every turn he's fanned the flames of racial division. Guess you missed the story, from 2009, where Hispanics beat up blacks, BUT Obama did NOT get blamed?? He misses no opportunity to weigh in divisively. And it's building into something of a crescendo.
Some folks like that.
In fact, a heck of a lot do.
Most of the Republican politicians are now cowed by how large and active that group of Trump supporters actually is, and their willingness to primary and defeat any GOP pol who dares speak up anymore on this issue. The Trumpists demand complete obeisance to Der Leader. Nothing less will do.
And......you really are glossing over the fact that the NY Times is driving the news, NOT reporting it? Why isn't the Ny Times the news towards increased spending, wasteful spending.....missing billions? NY times researching stories of decades old toxic waste sites still untouched, cleaned up and why? They have been a joke for a long long time.