FROM SEGREGATION TO TRUMP
NYT: Which political icon argued that his theme of middle-class empowerment was borrowed by Richard Nixon in 1968 and then grabbed by Ronald Reagan, as the spine of his triumphant populist conservatism?
George Wallace
npr.org/2016/04/22/475…
NYT: Which political icon argued that his theme of middle-class empowerment was borrowed by Richard Nixon in 1968 and then grabbed by Ronald Reagan, as the spine of his triumphant populist conservatism?
George Wallace
npr.org/2016/04/22/475…
TRUMP BLOCKS BORDER
Who promised to protect the state's 'Anglo-Saxon people' from 'communistic amalgamation' with blacks and stood in the schoolhouse door to block two black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama?
George Wallace
Who promised to protect the state's 'Anglo-Saxon people' from 'communistic amalgamation' with blacks and stood in the schoolhouse door to block two black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama?
George Wallace
TRUMP AND ARIZONA ALIGNED ON RACE
When Sen. Barry Goldwater (AZ), came out against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, who was it that said, "there's not a dime's worth of difference" between the two main parties on race?
George Wallace
When Sen. Barry Goldwater (AZ), came out against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, who was it that said, "there's not a dime's worth of difference" between the two main parties on race?
George Wallace
TRUMP & DISGRUNTLED WHITES
Who's political radar had picked up signals that Rust Belt workers and urban white ethnic Americans from Boston to Baltimore felt disgruntled about black students in their neighborhood schools and black competitors in the workplace?
George Wallace
Who's political radar had picked up signals that Rust Belt workers and urban white ethnic Americans from Boston to Baltimore felt disgruntled about black students in their neighborhood schools and black competitors in the workplace?
George Wallace
TRUMP's REAGAN-WALLACE STRATEGY
Which political icon ran a 1968 campaign against LIBERALS, COMMUNISTS & the US MEDIA? Who,. after Ronald Reagan became a GOP god, publicly declared that he was the REAL inventor of Reaganism?
George Wallace
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Which political icon ran a 1968 campaign against LIBERALS, COMMUNISTS & the US MEDIA? Who,. after Ronald Reagan became a GOP god, publicly declared that he was the REAL inventor of Reaganism?
George Wallace
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
TRUMP, NIXON, REAGAN & WALLACE
Who was President Jimmy Carter talking about in an interview in 1994 when he said: "I don't think there's a single issue that Nixon and Reagan talk of in terms of social issues that he doesn't get to first."
George Wallace
goodreads.com/book/show/4942…
Who was President Jimmy Carter talking about in an interview in 1994 when he said: "I don't think there's a single issue that Nixon and Reagan talk of in terms of social issues that he doesn't get to first."
George Wallace
goodreads.com/book/show/4942…
TRUMP & WHITE IDENTITY POLITICS
NYT: "...was the first in his generation to galvanize the white, working-class voters later labeled as Reagan Democrats. And he was the first nationally known politician to put raucous emphasis on race, crime, welfare..."
Who? George Wallace
NYT: "...was the first in his generation to galvanize the white, working-class voters later labeled as Reagan Democrats. And he was the first nationally known politician to put raucous emphasis on race, crime, welfare..."
Who? George Wallace
TRUMP & WHITE CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL SUPREMACISTS
Who argued that his early devotion to segregation was based on his reading of the Constitution and the Bible and was misinterpreted as a racist hatred of black people?
George Wallace
Who argued that his early devotion to segregation was based on his reading of the Constitution and the Bible and was misinterpreted as a racist hatred of black people?
George Wallace
TRUMP AND HIS WOMEN
Which political icon, as a young man, was noted for chasing after high school girls ... and eventually marrying a 16-year-old when he was 23?
George Wallace
Check out the life of George Wallace in the New York Times obit.
nytimes.com/1998/09/14/us/…
Which political icon, as a young man, was noted for chasing after high school girls ... and eventually marrying a 16-year-old when he was 23?
George Wallace
Check out the life of George Wallace in the New York Times obit.
nytimes.com/1998/09/14/us/…
TRUMP AND HIS BLACKS
1963. Detroit's Cobo Hall. Dr. King said: Segregation is wrong, evil, sinful & immoral. It is a cancer in the body politic. In a real sense, we are through with segregation, now, henceforth & forevermore!
1968. Same venue. Wallace said: Segregation forever!
1963. Detroit's Cobo Hall. Dr. King said: Segregation is wrong, evil, sinful & immoral. It is a cancer in the body politic. In a real sense, we are through with segregation, now, henceforth & forevermore!
1968. Same venue. Wallace said: Segregation forever!
DONALD TRUMP IS GEORGE WALLACE
History reveals a straight line between the white Christian conservative supremacists of the past and those who laud their champion Trump today. Their hostility against multiculturalism & an Inclusive America has been consistent. Nov 6 you decide.
History reveals a straight line between the white Christian conservative supremacists of the past and those who laud their champion Trump today. Their hostility against multiculturalism & an Inclusive America has been consistent. Nov 6 you decide.
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