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Old 08-12-2017, 07:39 PM
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Old 08-12-2017, 08:00 PM
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Yet, Trump's non-specific criticism was still too much for David Duke.

Former KKK leader David Duke struck out at President Donald Trump for condemning the violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In a series of tweets Duke questioned why the president, whom he usually supports, is attacking white Americans who put him "in the presidency."


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What a den of snakes Trump and his loyalists are.
David Duke doesn't come across as all that loyal.
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Old 08-12-2017, 08:04 PM
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LBJ, the Texan who banished the Dixiecrats and made the GOP America's racist party.
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Old 08-12-2017, 08:13 PM
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LBJ, the Texan who banished the Dixiecrats and made the GOP America's racist party.
Isn't it more that the southern racists bolted from the Democratic Party after LBJ signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts? You make it seem as though the Dixiecrats were the legitimately aggrieved party during the Civil Rights era. Your argument may well find a few receptive ears among those in bed sheets in Charlottesville, but not with me.
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Old 08-12-2017, 08:21 PM
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LBJ, the Texan who banished the Dixiecrats and made the GOP America's racist party.
Utter revisionist nonsense. The southern racists and the GOP willingly joined forces under Nixon's 'Southern Strategy' and then were further cemented to the GOP under Reagan.
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Utter revisionist nonsense. The southern racists and the GOP willingly joined forces under Nixon's 'Southern Strategy' and then were further cemented to the GOP under Reagan.
Indeed. LBJ said upon signing the Civil Rights Act "We have lost the South for a generation." He didn't say "I'm banishing Southern members of my own party."
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Good on those Republicans for speaking out. It's pretty shitty that it took a rightwing terrorist attack on American soil for them to find their backbones.
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Good on those Republicans for speaking out. It's pretty shitty that it took a rightwing terrorist attack on American soil for them to find their backbones.
Still far too few of them. If they really had balls, they'd sponsor a Congressional resolution condemning and disavowing the racist elements in their own base.
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Still far too few of them. If they really had balls, they'd sponsor a Congressional resolution condemning and disavowing the racist elements in their own base.
I ain't holding my breath. Far too many times I've seen the GOP mealy mouth the words and then do nothing. Newtown comes to mind.
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