me on the left, you can just barely make me out down in the park

What is people's threshold for racism nowadays? Do you have to straight up say the n word to be a racist? Do you have to explicitly say brown people are worse/less intelligent than white people?

What more does one have to do?

Criticizing violent leftist thugs or having an R next to your name.

noticed the KFC suit

The vast majority of Republicans or Liberal critics are not racist. Sure, almost everyone has racial biases, but I'd describe very few of our federally elected officials as racists.

Donald Trump is an exceptional case. His 40 year public record, particularly since 2011 when he ignited Obama Birtherism, speaks for itself.

Like I said before, what is the threshold for to be labeled a racist? Does Donald Trump have to explicitly say the n word for you to consider him a racist?

doing and saying racist things. not criticizing democrats and leftists.

your threshold is different than mine, one that shows poor character.
There is no necessity to liberally smear people as racists and fascists instead of formulating an intellectual argument against specific actions, arguments and policies.

Do you think the Obama Birther movement was a racist movement?

On fascism: I've laid out the tenets and characteristics of fascist ideology that I believe Donald Trump has represented in his public statements and political behavior in previous posts. Feel free to criticize them and discuss them.

Trump's involvement in the birther movement was definitely a low point for him. It put him on the political map and appealed to reservations against Obama and his policies from (mostly) white rural voters who felt like Obama's ideas and policies were "unamerican". Some of this resentment was fueled by racism, some of it by a deep rejection of Obama's policies on a substantive level. That Trump targeted this part of the electorate might have been the result of shared racial ressentiment; or Trump simply understood that this part of the electorate would be the "power center" of the right side of the political spectrum for the years to come.




you laid out a description of Trump's presidency through a strong liberal lens and procclaimed it to be identical with the consensus definition of the characteristics of facism - but such a consensus does not exist, not even among historians and politologists. what exactly constitutes or characterizes facism is a contentious question with no definitive answer.

tbc

You have to run against a (D)emocrat