White supremacist stabs interracial couple after seeing them kiss at bar, police say

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**Prestor Jon**

AlmightyWalrus wrote:
Ahtman wrote:
I wish I could remember where I read it but there was an intellectual conservative who, when writing about the Trump phenomena within Republican ranks, wrote an article that said something along the lines of "we always assumed that the base was philosophically with us (conservatism) but it turns out that it is largely White Nationalists."

That was somewhere on Dakka, might have been in the US politics thread. I remember reading it too.

Sebster posted it in the US politics thread

sebster wrote:
r_squared wrote:
You know, I'm beginning to wonder if the whole Trump Clinton Democrat conspiracy doesn't actually have some legs.

There's two possibilities. The first is that the Republican base picked an incompetent, bigoted liar and somewhere around 80 to 90% of Republican voters will vote for him in November, knowing full well that he's an incompetent, bigoted liar.

The second possibility is that Democrats cunningly tricked the Republican base in to nominating Donald Trump by having Trump say a lot of stupid, bigoted lies which voters then supported. And now that Trump is desperately saying more and more stupid, bigoted lies to try and throw the election, and yet 80 to 90% of Republican voters are still voting for him.

Either way it doesn't really say many positive things about the bulk of Republican supporters.

Avik Roy has been one of the leading intellectuals in conservative US politics for a long time now, and he sums up the state of the party very nicely - “We’ve had this view that the voters were with us on conservatism — philosophical, economic conservatism. In reality, the gravitational center of the Republican Party is white nationalism.”
http://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12256510/republican-party-trump-avik-roy

It really shouldn't be surprising to anyone this was the predictable outcome of the Southern Strategy employed decades ago that successfully transformed Dixiecrats into Repixiecans. The Republicans have turned the Deep South into their power base so things like confederate flags at Trump rallies and white nationalists/supremacists supporting Trump's brand of nationalism and populism should be expected.