Judd Legum

1. In response to Trump breaking bread w/an unrepentant racist, top GOP elected officials have said nothing

The silence delivers a message: top Republicans are willing to countenance white supremacy and anti-Semitism to maintain power

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Normalizing white supremacy

Last week, Donald Trump — the former president and leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024 — had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club with one of the nation's most prominent white supremacists and antisemites, Nick Fuentes. In recent episodes of his podcast

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Show threadJudd LegumNov 28, 2022

2. @[email protected] knows all about Nick Fuentes

When @[email protected] appeared at Fuentes' white nationalist convention, McCarthy called it "appalling and wrong"

McCarthy said Republicans should "not be associated, any time, any place, with somebody who is anti-Semitic"

Show threadJudd LegumNov 28, 2022

3. But @[email protected] has not said anything publicly about Trump's dinner with Fuentes, and his office did not respond to a request for comment.

McCarthy needs the support of Republican members of Congress that are loyal to Trump to be elected Speaker

https://popular.info/p/normalizing-white-supremacy

Normalizing white supremacy

Last week, Donald Trump — the former president and leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024 — had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club with one of the nation's most prominent white supremacists and antisemites, Nick Fuentes. In recent episodes of his podcast

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Show threadJudd LegumNov 28, 2022

4. @[email protected] claimed to be appalled by Fuentes but is willing to look the other way if that is what it takes to gain power.

Other Republican leaders have taken a similar approach.

https://popular.info/p/normalizing-white-supremacy

Normalizing white supremacy

Last week, Donald Trump — the former president and leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024 — had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club with one of the nation's most prominent white supremacists and antisemites, Nick Fuentes. In recent episodes of his podcast

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Show threadJudd LegumNov 28, 2022

5. ZERO members of GOP leadership in the House & Senate have spoken out about Trump's dinner with a white supremacist:

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https://popular.info/p/normalizing-white-supremacy

Normalizing white supremacy

Last week, Donald Trump — the former president and leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024 — had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club with one of the nation's most prominent white supremacists and antisemites, Nick Fuentes. In recent episodes of his podcast

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Show threadJudd LegumNov 28, 2022

6. Nearly, a week after his dinner with Fuentes, Trump has not uttered a single word of criticism about Fuentes or his views.

Instead, he's made the very dubious claim that he "knew nothing about" Fuentes

https://popular.info/p/normalizing-white-supremacy

Normalizing white supremacy

Last week, Donald Trump — the former president and leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024 — had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club with one of the nation's most prominent white supremacists and antisemites, Nick Fuentes. In recent episodes of his podcast

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Show threadJudd LegumNov 28, 2022

7. Trump has repeatedly feigned ignorance to avoid criticizing white supremacists. When notorious former KKK grand wizard David Duke endorsed Trump in 2016, Trump claimed that he didn't "know anything about David Duke"

https://popular.info/p/normalizing-white-supremacy

Normalizing white supremacy

Last week, Donald Trump — the former president and leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024 — had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club with one of the nation's most prominent white supremacists and antisemites, Nick Fuentes. In recent episodes of his podcast

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Show threadJudd LegumNov 28, 2022

8. Trump's claim of ignorance re: Duke was an obvious lie. He had rejected Duke's endorsement 15 years earlier when he was exploring a run for president as a member of the Reform Party.

https://popular.info/p/normalizing-white-supremacy

Normalizing white supremacy

Last week, Donald Trump — the former president and leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024 — had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club with one of the nation's most prominent white supremacists and antisemites, Nick Fuentes. In recent episodes of his podcast

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Show threadJudd LegumNov 28, 2022

9. Similarly, Trump's alleged unfamiliarity with Fuentes is suspect. One of Fuentes' closest associates is far-right provocateur Michelle Malkin. In May 2020, Trump retweeted a clip from Fuentes' internet show, America First Clips, supporting Malkin.

https://popular.info/p/normalizing-white-supremacy

Normalizing white supremacy

Last week, Donald Trump — the former president and leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024 — had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club with one of the nation's most prominent white supremacists and antisemites, Nick Fuentes. In recent episodes of his podcast

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Show threadJudd LegumNov 28, 2022

10. Several prominent media outlets — including @[email protected] and @[email protected] — have granted sympathetic operatives anonymity to defend Trump

Why?

https://popular.info/p/normalizing-white-supremacy

Normalizing white supremacy

Last week, Donald Trump — the former president and leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024 — had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club with one of the nation's most prominent white supremacists and antisemites, Nick Fuentes. In recent episodes of his podcast

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Show threadJudd LegumNov 28, 2022

11. Trump's dinner with Fuentes can't be viewed in isolation.

Rather, it is part of Trump's extensive history of defending, promoting, and encouraging white supremacists.

https://popular.info/p/normalizing-white-supremacy

Normalizing white supremacy

Last week, Donald Trump — the former president and leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024 — had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club with one of the nation's most prominent white supremacists and antisemites, Nick Fuentes. In recent episodes of his podcast

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Show threadJudd LegumNov 28, 2022

12. During a 2020 presidential debate Trump repeatedly refused to denounce white supremacists.

Pressed repeatedly, he finally told the Proud Boys, a far-right group, to "stand back and stand by."

The Proud Boys had the slogan printed on t-shirts.

https://popular.info/p/normalizing-white-supremacy

Normalizing white supremacy

Last week, Donald Trump — the former president and leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024 — had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club with one of the nation's most prominent white supremacists and antisemites, Nick Fuentes. In recent episodes of his podcast

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Show threadJudd LegumNov 28, 2022
13. Shortly after losing the 2020 election, Trump "appointed two men with well-documented white nationalist ties to government roles." One appointee was Darren Beattie, "a former White House speechwriter fired in 2018 [for speaking] at a white nationalist conference."
Show threadJudd LegumNov 28, 2022

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Show threadJudd LegumNov 28, 2022

15. UPDATE: "Trump repeatedly refused to disavow the outspoken antisemite and white supremacist Nick Fuentes after they spoke over dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort, rejecting the advice from advisers over fears he might alienate a section of his base"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/28/donald-trump-shied-away-from-criticising-nick-fuentes

Donald Trump ‘shied away from criticising Nick Fuentes’

Advisers wanted ex-president to distance himself from white supremacist with whom he dined but Trump feared alienating supporters – insiders

The Guardian
Show threadKimTulskyNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum It's clear that there is no daylight between support for antisemitic and white supremacist views and quest for power for some in GOP (eg MTG), but what about the rest? Is it all about quest for power? Or, are they all believers?
Show threadCassandra of TroyNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum
trump is a congenital liar, so this disavowal, like his disavowal of knowing who David Duke in 2016 - cannot be defaulted to truth telling.
Show threadHiFiNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum you should take a look at the non-profit Nick and Michelle put together.
Show threadUnprecedented 2023Nov 28, 2022
@juddlegum If DJT is talking he is fabricating. Period.
Show threadTodd MxyzptlkNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum of course he knows. It’s absurd he is allowed to distance himself from these people after years of their interwoven coordination.
Show threadGregory J. RosmaitaNov 28, 2022

@juddlegum Hello again, Judd. I've been asking you almost every day for the past several years to please add text transcripts to the images of text you post on Twitter—something you adamantly refuse to do. While it's a trivial task to add a description or transcript on Twitter, it's even easier to add transcripts & descriptions of images on Mastodon. It's also considered proper posting etiquitte on Masto to include text alternatives to provide the blind/VI with an equivalent experience of your tweets & threads.

Please cease consciously choosing to discriminate against the blind/VI by constructing perceptual & informational black holes, arbitrarily & capriciously limiting the reach of your important work. I had hoped you'd resolve to do better on Masto, but you are off to a dismal start.

Accessibility is a human & civil right. Inaccessibility is a choice—your choice.

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Show threadLiveoakNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum And Fred Trump was a big Klan guy -- its all in the Family.
Show threadUnprecedented 2023Nov 28, 2022
@juddlegum DJT’s dad marched in his cape and hood in NY.
Show threadTobyKNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum tfg seems to know very little about a lot of people, most of whom are despicable.
Show threadMarc GrundfossenNov 28, 2022
@TobyK @juddlegum
“Deplorable”
Show threadOlafWipperNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum That is Trump’s go to excuse for hanging out with Nazis and racists!
Show threadNursejanaNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum we've heard that before
Show threadUnprecedented 2023Nov 28, 2022
@juddlegum They are afraid of the town bully.
Show threadFigbash Nov 28, 2022
@juddlegum say anything? Stefanik was probably near to fudging her frillies to not be part of that, given just how much she's into white supremacy and all. Guess there's not much reporting in fangirl squee, is there?
Show threadLedermandNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum maybe they are all in the White Supremacist fold, why else the total silence !
Show threadJuli BuntingNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum Oh hell, Judd. I'm surprised some of them weren't there dinning with the rest of the deplorables.
Show threadMarie HenselderKimmelNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum But, but it's difficult to speak up when they are swilling at the trough of RW donors cash and hoping to avoid notice!!
Show threadtwintootzNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum They won’t because it’s who they are. Just look at the policies enacted across this country by the Republican Party. Suppressing the black vote, book bans having to do with black history and slavery, attacks on LGBTQ and on. In all forms, their entire agenda is fundamentally racist.
Show threadTanziersNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum maybe they just hope he will fade away with less and less publicity
Show threadThe Lone Apple 🍎Nov 28, 2022
@juddlegum The guy is an out-n-out Nazi. If Americans can't be against that then they're lost - politicians or not.
Show threadmanateacakeNov 28, 2022
@theloneapple @juddlegum No one in a position to give Kevin McCarthy what he wants (power; to be Speaker) will ever hold him accountable, unless voters in his district decide they've had enough. He and others like him (Lindsey Graham, etc.) have figured this out. The only risks come from doing the right thing, as they both learned after Jan. 6.
Show threadCeliaNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum all they care about is power and money
Show threadUnprecedented 2023Nov 28, 2022
@juddlegum No doubt. Kev knows that we all know it too. Shamelessly he is pursuing the position anyway.
Show threadUnprecedented 2023Nov 28, 2022
@juddlegum Kev changes colors like a chameleon.
Show threadNursejanaNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum Is this a very small step away from Trump?
Show threadVivianNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum I agree.
Show threadKing KaufmanNov 28, 2022

@juddlegum

Fixed it for you:

The silence delivers a message: top Republicans are willing to countenance white supremacy and anti-Semitism because they are fundamental aspects of the party's philosophy.

Show threadSascha FreudenheimNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum None of this is really a surprise to anyone — Jewish or not — who has been paying attention for the last 6 years or so… Even some conservative Christians (David French comes to mind) have been howling about this for years.
Show thread👑 Kingsley Nov 28, 2022
@juddlegum amazing thread.
Show threadChristine 🏳️‍⚧️🦋Nov 28, 2022
@juddlegum silence is complicity.
Show threadChris CapleNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum It's not that they're "willing to countenance white supremacy and anti-Semitism" - it's that they're white supremacists and anti-semites.
Show threadUnprecedented 2023Nov 28, 2022
@juddlegum Bingo.
Show threadJenXNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum Will legacy media outlets hound the GOP for their chumminess with White Supremacists the way they hounded POTUS for days after calling MAGA “semi-fascits”? Doubt it.
Show threadBlueDot🇺🇦Nov 28, 2022
@juddlegum "Willing to countenance" is pretty mild. I would have said "actively, gleefully embrace".
Show threadVAWeismanNov 28, 2022
@juddlegum “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They’re not our friends per se, but they are fellow citizens allowing fascism & authoritarianism to breed.
Show threadDubiago 💫Nov 28, 2022
@juddlegum Maybe you should ask, specifically, instead of proffering complicity via an answer that wasn't given to a question that wasn't asked. This nuttiness is why I don't politic anymore.
Show threadGrassroots JoeNov 30, 2022
@juddlegum
There is no bottom for the GOP.
The only way to stop them is to vote them out of power.
Show threadAutisticMumTo3Apr 18, 2023
@juddlegum
They encourage white supremacy. Its part of their bread & butter