Most white supremacists i have met online spout that same stuff.
Who cares if they are right or left wing?
They are ignorant assholes. Period.
Not to mention, both sides have horribly racist people with them. They wash themselves out.
Its time to grow up, America
My point, is why is he characterized as right wing, when he has very few positions that I agree with him on....and for different reasons.
Because Republicans welcomed these assholes into their party after the Civil Rights Act passed to help them beat the Democrats and win the South.
There are not enough rich, white men in America to win so Republicans had to broaden their appeal to win elections. Reagan forged an alliance with the evangelical Christian movement to oppose abortion, gay marriage but then did little for them once they helped elect him.
They did the same for white supremiacists, but unlike the Christians, who got little for their votes, they got more of what they wanted. Reagan railed against “Welfare Queens”, and cut benefits, raised income requirements on food stamps and tried to have ketchup declared a vegetable in the school lunch program. David Duke had found a home.
The one thing that Donald Trump has done that no other President before him has done, is to keep promises made to evangelical Christians. Moving the embassy to Jerusalem was HUGE for them. His anti-gay stance, and his support of charter schools also plays into this.
Every parent I’ve spoken to who has their child in a “Christian” school, has said they did this so their children won’t have to go to school with blacks or other minorities. So there is fine crossover with the racism.
And let’s be honest here. When conservatives talk about the urban/rural cultural divide in the flyover states they’re taking about race.
Republicans have given aid and comfort to racists for more than 50 years now. When you look at Republican gatherings, it’s a sea of white faces.
As for conservatives, they’re an ideology without a party at the moment. Trump is in no way conservative. Since his election He’s increased the size of government adding a whole new branch of the military, and hiring thousands of border patrol. Cancelled all of your trade deals and instituted tariffs.
Yes he cut taxes, but he is had the largest budget deficit in history as a result, and Americans are getting nothing lasting for the money he’s spending. Roosevelt used deficit spending on massive infrastructure projects which Americans can look at today and see how their tax dollars were spent at that time. With Trump, the money went to him, his family, and his rich buddies.
Conservatives favour free trade and don’t want the government picking winners and losers. Trump picked coal over clean energy and is trying to force power companies to build more coal-fired plants. The same with steel and aluminum tariffs. Companies are closing and manufacturing jobs are being lost at a rate of 5 to 1. For every new job created in the steel industry, 5 are lost in manufacturing. Talk about picking up the peanuts while being trampled by the elephants.
Trump is not a conservative but he’s not a liberal either. He’s an authoritarian.