{"id":83014,"date":"2015-12-23T15:37:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T23:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83014"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:35:46","slug":"gop-a-neo-fascist-white-identity-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83014","title":{"rendered":"GOP: A Neo-Fascist White-Identity Party?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Tomasky writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Republican Party of Trump is becoming a white-identity party, like the far-right parties of Europe. Yes, it includes token members of other races, which accounts for Ben Carson, who\u2019s just a political idiot, whatever his skills in the operating theater. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are in a different category as Cubans; in our political discourse, we throw them into the mix as Latino, but of course Cubans are very different culturally and politically from other Latinos; and besides, there are certainly racial categories among Cubans themselves, and Afro-Cubans these two are not.<\/p>\n

But whatever one wants to say about those three and others like them, they\u2019re part of a tiny minority in a party that\u2019s probably 97 percent white people, a significant percentage of whom are now openly embracing their racial identity; that is, they\u2019re supporting Trump as white people, because they feel he will protect their white privilege. And yes, this is very different from why black people voted for Obama as black people, and if you even need me to explain that, you\u2019re totally lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Tomasky writes: The Republican Party of Trump is becoming a white-identity party, like the far-right parties of Europe. Yes, it includes token members of other races, which accounts for Ben Carson, who\u2019s just a political idiot, whatever his skills … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4677],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t