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		<title>By: RL</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2016/07/02/the-intellect-of-a-trump-supporter/#comment-36953</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://mediamatters.org/research/2016/07/05/white-nationalist-leaders-praise-trump-s-stunning-anti-semitic-tweet/211338&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://mediamatters.org/research/2016/07/05/white-nationalist-leaders-praise-trump-s-stunning-anti-semitic-tweet/211338&lt;/a&gt;

Neo-Nazi Website Daily Stormer Praises Trump For “Dog-Whistling” And Exposing “Filthy Jew Terrorists.” The Daily Stormer is a neo-Nazi website that has endorsed Trump for president and organizes anti-Semitic online attacks. Publisher Andrew Anglin praised Trump for “dog-whistling” and promoting the purported fact that “the majority of Hilary’s [sic] donors are filthy Jew terrorists”:



&lt;blockquote&gt;This is, yet again, dog-whistling by The Leader. It comes just after he made some offensive comments about Israel being our friend – he says this for the evangelicals, then he signals to us – his real supporters – that we need not worry, he is just shilling a bit to get into power at which point he will shut down the entire Jew agenda.

[…]

Also, by pushing this into the media, the Jews bring to the public the fact that yes, the majority of Hilary’s donors are filthy Jew terrorists. [Media Matters, 12/8/15; Daily Stormer, 7/2/16; The Washington Post, 7/3/16]&lt;/blockquote&gt;

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<p>Neo-Nazi Website Daily Stormer Praises Trump For “Dog-Whistling” And Exposing “Filthy Jew Terrorists.” The Daily Stormer is a neo-Nazi website that has endorsed Trump for president and organizes anti-Semitic online attacks. Publisher Andrew Anglin praised Trump for “dog-whistling” and promoting the purported fact that “the majority of Hilary’s [sic] donors are filthy Jew terrorists”:</p>
<blockquote><p>This is, yet again, dog-whistling by The Leader. It comes just after he made some offensive comments about Israel being our friend – he says this for the evangelicals, then he signals to us – his real supporters – that we need not worry, he is just shilling a bit to get into power at which point he will shut down the entire Jew agenda.</p>
<p>[…]</p>
<p>Also, by pushing this into the media, the Jews bring to the public the fact that yes, the majority of Hilary’s donors are filthy Jew terrorists. [Media Matters, 12/8/15; Daily Stormer, 7/2/16; The Washington Post, 7/3/16]</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: RL</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2016/07/02/the-intellect-of-a-trump-supporter/#comment-36944</link>
		<dc:creator>RL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2016 18:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In the same rally as the &quot;Heebie Jobbies&quot; comment he did take issue with one of the anti-semites in the crowd:
&lt;blockquote&gt;He was more pointed in response to a questioner who told Trump he&#039;s &quot;opposed to wasting our military in the Middle East on behalf of Zionist Israel.&quot;
Trump told the man: &quot;Israel is a very, very important ally of the United States and we are going to protect them 100% -- 100%. It&#039;s our true friend over there.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

But he realized that after that he needed to make nice with the neo-nazis that support him... so he tweeted this:
(note the star of David)
&lt;img src=&quot;http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160702123222-trump-star-tweet-clinton-backlash-00001715-large-169.jpg&quot;&gt;

Not exactly subtle.... a loud enough dog whistle that even the illiterate neo-nazis could hear it...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the same rally as the &#8220;Heebie Jobbies&#8221; comment he did take issue with one of the anti-semites in the crowd:</p>
<blockquote><p>He was more pointed in response to a questioner who told Trump he&#8217;s &#8220;opposed to wasting our military in the Middle East on behalf of Zionist Israel.&#8221;<br />
Trump told the man: &#8220;Israel is a very, very important ally of the United States and we are going to protect them 100% &#8212; 100%. It&#8217;s our true friend over there.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>But he realized that after that he needed to make nice with the neo-nazis that support him&#8230; so he tweeted this:<br />
(note the star of David)<br />
<img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160702123222-trump-star-tweet-clinton-backlash-00001715-large-169.jpg"/></p>
<p>Not exactly subtle&#8230;. a loud enough dog whistle that even the illiterate neo-nazis could hear it&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2016/07/02/the-intellect-of-a-trump-supporter/#comment-36943</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2016 17:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Or perhaps I should say, it is the philosophy of those who fancy themselves as members of the commercial or ownership cohort: the &quot;makers&quot;.  These folks see themselves as the natural and legitimate inheritors of wealth and privilege.  They are the ones who are intelligent, patriotic, hard-working, honest, frugal, and pious--by virtue of their innate qualities and their genetic heritage.  It follows then society must be out to get them, and further, that anyone who opposes them&lt;em&gt; must&lt;/em&gt; be stupid, seditious, lazy, larcenous, spendthrift and heretical, that is, the &quot;takers&quot;. And further, that they must have been born that way.

Well, real capitalists can at least point to genuine personal and social achievements to justify their claims, but for those who cannot make it in the very society they themselves prefer and define as natural and inevitable, then there MUST be a cabal of evildoers who toil maliciously and continuously to keep them down and take what is rightfully theirs. For the righteously disappointed, conspiracy is the only possible valid explanation for their personal shortcomings, or for the indifference of a random and chaotic universe.

Do I exaggerate?  Of course, nothing in the social sciences is that cut-and-dried, and there are always exceptions to every rule and other factors and forces at play.  But if you need a rule of thumb to help explain political and social divisions, a starting point, then there it is. 

The followers of Trump are those who want to be Daddy Warbucks, but can&#039;t, because they are too stupid or too unlucky, or perhaps because they have been out-competed (or even victimized!) by the very people they admire and wish to emulate, and they are too ashamed to admit it to themselves.  As for those who still support Trump even though they don&#039;t trust him or his program...well, they are the worst of all. Unlike the ignorant and uneducated, they should know better, but they see his lies as their best hope of furthering their own interests.  They not only can be blamed for following Trump, they must also accept the blame for creating him.

They are like those Liberals and Leftists who supported Lenin and Stalin and Mao and Castro long after the evidence was in that these dictators were brutal tyrants running gangster states.  Yes, this human error is not limited to one ideology or another.  It is just that today it seems to be most noticeable, most troublesome, and most toxic on the Right.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Or perhaps I should say, it is the philosophy of those who fancy themselves as members of the commercial or ownership cohort: the &#8220;makers&#8221;.  These folks see themselves as the natural and legitimate inheritors of wealth and privilege.  They are the ones who are intelligent, patriotic, hard-working, honest, frugal, and pious&#8211;by virtue of their innate qualities and their genetic heritage.  It follows then society must be out to get them, and further, that anyone who opposes them<em> must</em> be stupid, seditious, lazy, larcenous, spendthrift and heretical, that is, the &#8220;takers&#8221;. And further, that they must have been born that way.</p>
<p>Well, real capitalists can at least point to genuine personal and social achievements to justify their claims, but for those who cannot make it in the very society they themselves prefer and define as natural and inevitable, then there MUST be a cabal of evildoers who toil maliciously and continuously to keep them down and take what is rightfully theirs. For the righteously disappointed, conspiracy is the only possible valid explanation for their personal shortcomings, or for the indifference of a random and chaotic universe.</p>
<p>Do I exaggerate?  Of course, nothing in the social sciences is that cut-and-dried, and there are always exceptions to every rule and other factors and forces at play.  But if you need a rule of thumb to help explain political and social divisions, a starting point, then there it is. </p>
<p>The followers of Trump are those who want to be Daddy Warbucks, but can&#8217;t, because they are too stupid or too unlucky, or perhaps because they have been out-competed (or even victimized!) by the very people they admire and wish to emulate, and they are too ashamed to admit it to themselves.  As for those who still support Trump even though they don&#8217;t trust him or his program&#8230;well, they are the worst of all. Unlike the ignorant and uneducated, they should know better, but they see his lies as their best hope of furthering their own interests.  They not only can be blamed for following Trump, they must also accept the blame for creating him.</p>
<p>They are like those Liberals and Leftists who supported Lenin and Stalin and Mao and Castro long after the evidence was in that these dictators were brutal tyrants running gangster states.  Yes, this human error is not limited to one ideology or another.  It is just that today it seems to be most noticeable, most troublesome, and most toxic on the Right.</p>
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		<title>By: mcfly</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2016/07/02/the-intellect-of-a-trump-supporter/#comment-36942</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/trump-overwhelmingly-leads-rivals-in-support-from-less-educated-americans/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here &lt;/a&gt;

And from his more sophisticated supporters, at times like this, we get silence: tacit approval of ignorance and hate? Acceptance of the fact that Trump will need the &quot;hate vote?&quot; Simple cowardice? Or all of the above?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/trump-overwhelmingly-leads-rivals-in-support-from-less-educated-americans/" rel="nofollow">Here </a></p>
<p>And from his more sophisticated supporters, at times like this, we get silence: tacit approval of ignorance and hate? Acceptance of the fact that Trump will need the &#8220;hate vote?&#8221; Simple cowardice? Or all of the above?</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
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		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2016 04:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>After all, most Arabs are Muslim, and Arabs are also a Semitic people, so anti-Semitism can be fully preserved as part of the bigotry suite by simply shifting the racism from one of the sons of Abraham to the other. And &quot;Hebe&quot; has long been an ethnic slur for &quot;Jew&quot;.

Unquestioning support of Israeli policy is now part of the Conservative canon, as I mentioned before, Conservative evangelicals see Israel as an essential part of their Revelations end-of-times mythos. Any criticism of Israeli policy in Palestine is immediately attacked as Liberal heresy.  The shift from Jew-baiting to anti-Arab, anti-Muslim fervor is a necessary adjustment to coincide with modern political alignments. It has been seamless and sudden, but not too surprising.

Remember, Ishmael, the father of the Arab peoples, was also one of the sons of Abraham.

&lt;blockquote&gt;
Oh, God said to Abraham, &quot;Kill me a son&quot;
Abe say, &quot;Man, you must be puttin&#039; me on&quot;
God say, &quot;No, &quot; Abe say, &quot;What?&quot;
God say, &quot;You can do what you want, Abe, but
Next time you see me comin&#039;, you better run&quot;
Well, Abe said, &quot;Where do you want this killin&#039; done?&quot;
God said, &quot;Out on Highway 61&quot;

(Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After all, most Arabs are Muslim, and Arabs are also a Semitic people, so anti-Semitism can be fully preserved as part of the bigotry suite by simply shifting the racism from one of the sons of Abraham to the other. And &#8220;Hebe&#8221; has long been an ethnic slur for &#8220;Jew&#8221;.</p>
<p>Unquestioning support of Israeli policy is now part of the Conservative canon, as I mentioned before, Conservative evangelicals see Israel as an essential part of their Revelations end-of-times mythos. Any criticism of Israeli policy in Palestine is immediately attacked as Liberal heresy.  The shift from Jew-baiting to anti-Arab, anti-Muslim fervor is a necessary adjustment to coincide with modern political alignments. It has been seamless and sudden, but not too surprising.</p>
<p>Remember, Ishmael, the father of the Arab peoples, was also one of the sons of Abraham.</p>
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Oh, God said to Abraham, &#8220;Kill me a son&#8221;<br />
Abe say, &#8220;Man, you must be puttin&#8217; me on&#8221;<br />
God say, &#8220;No, &#8221; Abe say, &#8220;What?&#8221;<br />
God say, &#8220;You can do what you want, Abe, but<br />
Next time you see me comin&#8217;, you better run&#8221;<br />
Well, Abe said, &#8220;Where do you want this killin&#8217; done?&#8221;<br />
God said, &#8220;Out on Highway 61&#8243;</p>
<p>(Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
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