April 30th 2011 is the turning point. Obama roasted Trump so hard at the White House Correspondent’s dinner that night that Trump locked in on running for president out of nothing more than pure spite.
Donald Trump is here tonight! Now, I know that he’s taken some flak lately, but no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald. And that’s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter—like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?
But all kidding aside, obviously, we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. For example—no, seriously, just recently, in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice—at the steakhouse, the men’s cooking team cooking did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around. But you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. And so ultimately, you didn’t blame Lil Jon or Meatloaf. You fired Gary Busey. And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night.
Well, Donvict was clearly worked up over Obama Presidenting While Black - it was obvious from all his stupid racist birther bullshit.
Sure, he wasn’t the only one (anyone remember Orly Taitz, LOL?) but he quickly became the spearhead for the racists that were so GRRRR MAD that a black man was their President and tried to make their white hot racist rage all about long form birth certificates. It seriously broke the brains of the Republican Party/conservatives to have Obama as their President. I mean, they were already bad before, but after Obama, they only got worse. When conservatives blame Obama for their turn to someone as shitty as Donvict as their option, they are not exactly wrong, but they are not really understanding that they are telling on themselves.
Someone as disgusting and gross and racist like Donvict was almost bound to happen as a result of having a black President. Also, after the China White of someone like Palin, they were not going to settle for the methadone of Jeb! or Romney.
They wanted someone that would tell them to be their worst selves and be proud of it, because this country was “taken” from them and they need to “take it back”. They viewed equality as oppression. They wanted someone that was the manifestation of Faux News, and Donvict is exactly that.
This is a great analysis, but its very biased on recent events. There are groups working towards all of this since the civil rights movement. Trump happened to be the right person at the right time, but the plan had been in motion for decades before he came down that escalator. A lot of this started with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weyrich and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy.
Oh, you’ll get no argument here. I used to call the teabaggers the teabirchers since most of their ideas (and probably many of the members, too) were retreads from the John Birch Society.
I’ve also read some things in recent years that wrote about how what really turbocharged the right wing was not so much abortion (or at least abortion alone), but the fact that white flight schools that people were sending their kids to were coming under fire from the IRS, and that really lit a fire under the ass of sending them into action and to the polls, as well as forging an alliance with xtians. That was the 1970s - another big instance of this kind of thing, probably leading to Reagan and his radical agenda sweeping Washington.
I should say that Obama is one of the more visible and recent instances of this, and the backlash (in the form of Donnie) was probably all-too-predictable.
It ties the CNP, the church, abortion, trump, the heritage foundation and few other threads together. It very lightly touches on the koch network, but that’s another big source of recent ailments.
Idk why people say this. It wasn’t the turning point. Trump had been hounding Obama on the false birther issue since he was elected practically, stoking the flames of the tea party. It was inevitable he was going to run.
April 30th 2011 is the turning point. Obama roasted Trump so hard at the White House Correspondent’s dinner that night that Trump locked in on running for president out of nothing more than pure spite.
Donald Trump is here tonight! Now, I know that he’s taken some flak lately, but no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald. And that’s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter—like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?
But all kidding aside, obviously, we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. For example—no, seriously, just recently, in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice—at the steakhouse, the men’s cooking team cooking did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around. But you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. And so ultimately, you didn’t blame Lil Jon or Meatloaf. You fired Gary Busey. And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night.
Well, Donvict was clearly worked up over Obama Presidenting While Black - it was obvious from all his stupid racist birther bullshit.
Sure, he wasn’t the only one (anyone remember Orly Taitz, LOL?) but he quickly became the spearhead for the racists that were so GRRRR MAD that a black man was their President and tried to make their white hot racist rage all about long form birth certificates. It seriously broke the brains of the Republican Party/conservatives to have Obama as their President. I mean, they were already bad before, but after Obama, they only got worse. When conservatives blame Obama for their turn to someone as shitty as Donvict as their option, they are not exactly wrong, but they are not really understanding that they are telling on themselves.
Someone as disgusting and gross and racist like Donvict was almost bound to happen as a result of having a black President. Also, after the China White of someone like Palin, they were not going to settle for the methadone of Jeb! or Romney.
They wanted someone that would tell them to be their worst selves and be proud of it, because this country was “taken” from them and they need to “take it back”. They viewed equality as oppression. They wanted someone that was the manifestation of Faux News, and Donvict is exactly that.
Great analysis
This is a great analysis, but its very biased on recent events. There are groups working towards all of this since the civil rights movement. Trump happened to be the right person at the right time, but the plan had been in motion for decades before he came down that escalator. A lot of this started with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weyrich and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy.
Oh, you’ll get no argument here. I used to call the teabaggers the teabirchers since most of their ideas (and probably many of the members, too) were retreads from the John Birch Society.
I’ve also read some things in recent years that wrote about how what really turbocharged the right wing was not so much abortion (or at least abortion alone), but the fact that white flight schools that people were sending their kids to were coming under fire from the IRS, and that really lit a fire under the ass of sending them into action and to the polls, as well as forging an alliance with xtians. That was the 1970s - another big instance of this kind of thing, probably leading to Reagan and his radical agenda sweeping Washington.
I should say that Obama is one of the more visible and recent instances of this, and the backlash (in the form of Donnie) was probably all-too-predictable.
If you’d like to go down a rabit hole, checknout https://www.badfaithdocumentary.com/
It ties the CNP, the church, abortion, trump, the heritage foundation and few other threads together. It very lightly touches on the koch network, but that’s another big source of recent ailments.
Thanks for rec; turns out I’ve already seen it. :)
I love rabbit holes, though, so if you have any more, throw them my way.
its a little older, and more effort, but Dark Money by Jane Mayer also gives some good explanation of how we got here.
Ah, the book. At first I was looking at the movie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6633182/
Yeah, whatever happened to Oily Taint? See seems to have gone silent around 2012 after her stellar career as a record-breaking vexatious litigant.
I see from her Wikipedia page that she expressed interest in joining Donvict’s legal team in 2020 over his lost election, LOL.
Idk why people say this. It wasn’t the turning point. Trump had been hounding Obama on the false birther issue since he was elected practically, stoking the flames of the tea party. It was inevitable he was going to run.