New York congressional candidate Carl Paladino (R) told a radio host in late 2016 that Black Americans were kept “dumb and hungry” so they could be conditioned to only vote for the Democratic Party, saying, “You can’t teach them differently,” CNN reports.
He added: “I don’t think of myself in any way as a racist.”
“Dozens of members of a white supremacist group were arrested on Saturday in Idaho before they could act on plans to riot at a local Pride event,” the New York Times reports.
“After receiving a tip from a concerned citizen, the police detained and charged 31 people who belonged to a far-right group known as Patriot Front.”
“They are being charged with conspiracy to riot.”
Arizona U.S. Senate hopeful Blake Masters (R) acknowledged that the United States has a gun violence problem. But he also has a theory about why there’s a problem — it’s “Black people, frankly,” the Daily Beast reports.
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A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that 61% of Donald Trump voters agree that “a group of people in this country are trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants and people of color who share their political views” — a core tenet of the false conspiracy theory known as the “great replacement.”
Just 34% of Americans overall agree with that statement.
A new CBS/YouGov poll finds that 48% of Republican voters say that it is “not very” or “not at all” important for political leaders to condemn white nationalism and white supremacy.
“Former Sen. David Perdue ended his Trump-inspired campaign for governor of Georgia with a racist appeal to Republican primary voters on Monday, accusing Stacey Abrams, the Black woman who is the presumptive Democratic nominee, of ‘demeaning her own race’ in how she has described the state’s problems,” the New York Times reports.
“A notorious Hungarian racist who has called Jews ‘stinking excrement,’ referred to Roma as ‘animals’ and used racial epithets to describe Black people, was a featured speaker at a major gathering of US Republicans in Budapest,” The Guardian reports.
A new NALEO poll of Hispanic voters in Los Angeles finds that 71% prefer to be identified as “Hispanic,” 28% prefer “Latino” and just 1% prefer “Latinx.”
“A half-dozen mainstream Republican Senate candidates are drawing on the ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory once confined to the far-right fringes of U.S. politics to court voters this campaign season, promoting the baseless notion that there is a plot to diminish the influence of white people in America,” the AP reports.
“In some cases, the comments have gone largely overlooked given the hard-line immigration rhetoric that has become commonplace among conservatives during the Trump era. But a weekend mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that may have been inspired by the racist theory is drawing new attention to the GOP’s growing embrace of white nationalist creed.”
The Guardian: “Over at Fox News, however, there was barely any mention of the white gunman’s alleged reasoning for opening fire at a supermarket, killing 10 people and wounding three more, in a predominantly Black area.”
“The absence of coverage of the motive was revealing, given Fox News’s most popular host, Tucker Carlson, has pushed the concept of replacement theory in more than 400 of his shows – and has arguably done more than anyone in the US to popularize the racist conspiracy.”
Tucker Carlson on his Fox News show in 2018:
How, precisely, is diversity our strength? Since you’ve made this our new national motto, please be specific as you explain it. Can you think, for example, of other institutions such as, I don’t know, marriage or military units in which the less people have in common, the more cohesive they are?
Do you get along better with your neighbors, your co-workers if you can’t understand each other or share no common values? Please be honest as you answer this question.
The Buffalo gunman in a 180-page manifesto explaining his motivations behind last weekend’s mass shooting:
Why is diversity said to be our greatest strength? Does anyone even ask why? It is spoken like a mantra and repeated ad infinitum “diversity is our greatest strength, diversity is our greatest strength, diversity is our greatest strength…” Said throughout the media, spoken by politicians, educators and celebrities. But no one ever seems to give a reason why.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) called out the House Republican leadership team for enabling vile forms of racism.
Said Cheney: “The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.”
Ten people were killed by a gunman dressed in body armor and armed with a high-powered rifle, while three others were wounded – two of them critically – outside and inside a Buffalo supermarket, the Buffalo News reports.
Erie County Sheriff John Garcia called the attack a “straight-up racially motivated hate crime.”
BNO News said the shooter was “live-streaming on Twitch” and “also posted an online manifesto in which he described himself as a white supremacist.”
“When Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson was recently asked on Fox News about immigration reform, he floated a conspiracy theory that’s quickly becoming gospel on the right: that Democrats want a flood of immigrants to remake America and keep them in power,” Vice News reports.
“He’s far from the only Republican who espouses these beliefs. And he may soon have more colleagues in the Senate who believe that Democrats’ plan is to import enough eventual voters to take over control of the electorate for good: At least a half-dozen Republican Senate candidates have voiced similar sentiments on the campaign trail in recent weeks, a sign of how mainstream and deeply ingrained in modern Republican orthodoxy this conspiracy theory has become.”
“It’s similar to, though not exactly the same as, the ‘great replacement’ theory, a white supremacist conspiracy theory that’s been popularized by the alt-right over the past decade.”
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“Randy Bishop, a right-wing Michigan radio host who filed last week to run for the state Senate, said on his show last month that TV commercials were attempting to make him feel guilty because he thinks families should be all White,” the Detroit News reports.
Said Bishop: “Can’t even watch a college basketball tournament without commercials telling me I have to feel guilty because I think a family should be a White mom, a White dad and White kids. They want us to die and go away. And they’re going to try to do it through politics this year. Well, we have got to be just as smart.”
“Campaigning for the Senate in Ohio in recent weeks, J.D. Vance (R) has ridiculed claims that advocates of a border-wall were ‘racist,'” CNN reports.
“But in multiple appearances in 2016, he made a similar argument to the one he is currently ridiculing — including saying that Republican electoral strategy had been to antagonize Black voters and minorities for three decades.”
“A Republican official in Virginia is being pushed to resign by the local GOP after a Facebook post was discovered in which he used the N-word and floated the idea of ‘lynching’ Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and other leaders in Washington, D.C.,” Newsweek reports.
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.