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McConnell casts doubt on Trump getting elected after dinner with white nationalist
Days after the disgraced former president trump’s dinner conversation with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and antisemite rapper Ye, several GOP members of Congress are timidly criticizing trump’s decision to join in that meeting.
“Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday went further than McCarthy, condemning Trump's meeting with Fuentes, opening his weekly press conference by rejecting not only ‘antisemitism’ and ‘white supremacy’ but saying Trump's association with the ideologies could keep him from winning a second term in the White House.”
“‘There is no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy,’ McConnell said, flanked by Republican Senate leadership. ‘And anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view, in my judgment, are highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the United States.’”
McConnell’s statement is surprising, given the decades he, himself, has relied on the bigoted political tactics of the Republicans’ long-employed Southern Strategy. The Southern Strategy was developed during the 1960s to capitalize on the ingrained ethnic resentment in white Americans. As the decades have passed, the GOP has continually adapted the Party’s message to cultivate and nurture the racial hatred of their white voter base.
To again exploit the Republicans’ decades of conditioning their base, the dinner meeting was organized between trump, the white supremacist Fuentes, and vocal antisemite rapper, who, until recently, was known as Kanye West. Bringing the two guests to Mar-a-Lago was an effort by trump to reinvigorate his cultists’ weakened support for their beloved leader. After losing the 2020 presidential election trump spent the last two years becoming a whiny, sniveling loser. To win in 2024, trump must, again, become the hate-spewing confidence man the white working class absolutely adored in 2016. The dinner meeting at Mar-a-Lago was an excellent first step.
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