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Conservative levels Trump for peddling Pat Buchanan’s ‘white grievance’ — and losing the shutdown PR battle
Trump over the weekend approvingly cited an article written by right-wing columnist Pat Buchanan that
stoked fears about the Democratic Party intentionally trying to reduce the number of white men
in the United States as a way to ensure electoral dominance.
conservative Washington Examiner editor Philip Klein lamented that
the president appears to either no know or not care that he’s losing
the messaging battle over his proposed border wall and the current government shutdown.
“It’s just worth observing that citing Buchanan clearly isn’t something that makes sense if Trump is interested in trying to convince persuadable Americans about the merits of a border wall,” writes Klein.
“It’s something that only makes sense if he’s interested in signaling to a certain part of the electorate
(racists, KKK, Proud Boys, xenophobes, low-wage, low-ed insecure less/old white males)
that he’s one of them, and is fighting for them.”
Klein observes that Buchanan’s rhetoric... more at white men who feel their status is threatened by the presence of minority voters.
in 1999, Trump himself used his trademark bombast to call Buchanan a ‘Hitler lover’
signals to Klein that the shutdown fight “isn’t a war [Trump] seems to be interested in winning.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/conservative-levels-trump-peddling-pat-buchanans-white-grievance-losing-shutdown-pr-battle/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
that cant be real tbh... the ing sauce packets on those fancy platters
