US elections - Round Two

A provocative theory for why Donald Trump keeps flip-flopping on the KKK



Trump appeared to change his position twice over the weekend regarding David Duke, the notorious former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who said he supports the candidate on his radio program last week.

Duke said he wasn't formally endorsing the candidate, but he encouraged his followers to volunteer for Trump's campaign, telling them, "You're going to meet people who are going to have the same kind of mindset that you have."On Friday, Trump denounced Duke during a news conference, only to tell CNN two days later that he didn't know enough about the white supremacist to condemn him.

"I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists," Trump told the network's Jake Tapper.

On Friday, Trump denounced Duke during a news conference, only to tell CNN two days later that he didn't know enough about the white supremacist to condemn him.

"I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists," Trump told the network's Jake Tapper.

By Monday morning, Trump had reversed himself again, disavowing Duke's support and saying on NBC's "Today" that he couldn't understand Tapper's question due to a faulty earpiece. Nonetheless, the episode provided further evidence that racism is a factor in Trump's success so far in the GOP presidential primary.

Trump's supporters appear to have little in common. He is the most popular candidate among all kinds of demographic groups in the GOP electorate. He wins with Republicans who are well educated and poorly educated, with religious as well as secular voters, with the rich and the poor, and with voters who see themselves as conservative and those who call themselves moderate.

While polling suggests that Trump's supporters have a variety of motivations, recent research suggests that prejudice, along with the trait psychologists call "authoritarianism," distinguishes many of those casting ballots for Trump from other Republican voters.

[A strange but accurate predictor of whether someone supports Trump]

While choices about child-rearing might seem to have little to do with politics, polling shows Trump's supporters are more likely to value respect for authority and obedience in children, as Wonkblog has reported. Researchers say these views indicate authoritarianism, and indeed, Trump's supporters also are more likely than his rivals' supporters to believe the next president should suppress political dissent. Over the weekend, Trump also called for libel laws to be weakened to make it more difficult for the media to criticize him.

Authoritarianism is also associated with racial and ethnic prejudice. "They don't trust other people," Marc Hetherington, a political scientist at Vanderbilt University, said about authoritarians in a recent interview. "They're wary, and that's why they don’t want people who are different from them in the country, and don't think so highly of people who are from different races."

Opposition to immigration has been a crucial theme of Trump's campaign, which he announced last year by declaring Mexican immigrants criminals and "rapists." Polling by The Washington Post and ABC News shows that a majority of GOP voters who believe strongly that immigrants weaken American society support Trump.

While some of these voters might hold that view due to economic concerns rather than xenophobia, recent research suggests that racism is part of what motivates opposition to immigration. As Wonkblog has reported, a recent experiment showed that white participants were less amenable to living and working alongside immigrants when shown a manipulated photograph of foreigners with darker complexions.

There are other reasons for Trump's appeal, to be sure. He is the most popular candidate even among voters who believe that immigrants strengthen American society, according to the the Post-ABC poll, though by a narrow margin.

Taken together, however, these findings suggest a possible explanation for Trump's unexpected success in the GOP primary. Instead of relying on the established factions of Republican voters that have selected presidential nominees in recent elections, Trump is instead creating a new coalition, exploiting some voters' racial and ethnic biases.

There is a video as part of the article in which Trump disavows him.

This is the closest I can find

Thanks for posting it, Lily - I don't think they are getting it.

Er, if Trump supporters 'respected authority', then they'd be doing what the GOP establishment tells them to do, instead of going .

Somewhere, I saw a far simpler explanation for what's happening.

https://youtu.be/ryweuBVJMEA

Yes, it is this Robert Byrd whose praises Hills is singing:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/02/29/video-reporter-grabs-neck-of-secret-service-at-trump-rally/

VIDEO: Time Reporter Grabs Secret Service Agent’s Throat at Trump Rally *UPDATED*



Scruffy looking b*gger.

ADDED: Additionally, the video below shows a chest bump between the agent and the Time reporter. Perticone reports that things got physical after the Time reporter said “feck you” to the Secret Service agent.

Not a good idea.

Oh my word.....Hillary is not a hypocrite is she?

This, IMO, is what the establishment, elites, uniparty, whatever you want to call them, are totally ignoring.

THE INTERNET DOESN'T FORGET.

It takes seconds to find more recorded dirt on them, than they can ever throw at Trump.

It's not what they wanted. So sad. Too bad.

Lots of polling data for Super Tuesday:

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/29/cnnorc-national-poll-marco-rubio-and-ted-cruz-suffer-stunning-drops-trump-and-carson-gain/



I am actually none too sure why Rubio thought that going on about the size of Trump's, er, male bits, was going to help him.

Finally, a CNN/ORC national poll of Republicans puts Trump in near-majority territory with 49% support, dwarfing Rubio (16%), Cruz (15%), Carson (10%), and Kasich (6%).

The GOP race was over once the Sunday polls had come out. Now we are just looking at the pieces fitting ever more snugly into place and the details coming together. Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee and will almost assuredly be facing Hillary Clinton in the general election for the 45th President of the United States of America.



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Fox will have a meltdown.

You mean more than they are right now? Poor dears......

This is the best election ever, Lily, every day brings fresh entertainment. I think yesterday's high spot was that scruffy photographer attempting to fight the secret service.

Well, every one I can remember has been Senator Kerry says blah blah but Senator McCain says bleh-bleh, and you know it's meaningless because they're just going to carve the goodies up between themselves when no-one's looking.

Bonny, so far this has been the best election in my memory. It still is not over by a long mark.....

Talk about entertaining.

Round-up of last night's high jinks:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/01/3189601/

It seems to be less biased (as in pro-establishment globalist) than the MSM. In short, Killary squashed the hapless Sanders, and The Donald is now several states closer to the White House.

Hence establishment pearl-clutching at seeing their best-laid plans gang awry.

I know. Great isn't it?

This morning the establishment is trying its hardest in how to get Trump out of the way.

I had to put Fox off, Lily, it was so biased and dumb, it was actually insulting - even for Fox. I fell asleep watching CNN, and was rudely awakened by high-pitched squeals and shrieks. The source was the Rubio rally, and mainly Rubio himself.

I think those who suspect he's using drugs may be onto something - he just kept shouting the same things over and over again...

I hadn't realised that there is more than one round. Just how many rounds are there?

Oh, there's loads of fighting and backstabbing to go yet, Sabot, the Republican convention isn't till July. And the actual election isn't till November.

I don't know how many more of these there are to go, Lily will probably know better.

I think it is such a complicated system. This website might help unravel it all?

http://www.cfr.org/elections/us-presidential-nominating-process/p37522

lily wrote:I think it is such a complicated system.  This website might help unravel it all?

http://www.cfr.org/elections/us-presidential-nominating-process/p37522

Noooo, I can't cope with that. But WTF, I can't cope with Britain either. But then, I don't have to.

Sorry if my attitude to Europe pisses you all off a bit, but Europe has only ever been good to me. Way beyond anything that Britain ever afford me when I was very broke with three small children and galloping consumption. The Social Services just wanted to put my children into care. I had to fight tooth and claw to prevent that, and at a time when they bloody well knew that my children were not in any danger from me.

There's nothing at all wrong with Europe, or Europeans, Sabot. There's a great deal wrong with the EU....

It's the difference between people and their governments, again.