ideologies on the far right. the fear was these ideas would be normalized. if you call it the alt right, it s important to know exactly what we re talking about. we re not talking about some new sophisticated brand of conservativism. we re talking about simple racism. sorry, someone was talking in my ear. i apologize for that. listen, talk to me about what effect the 2016 campaign has had on the rhetoric you all monitor around the country. well, the rhetoric has exploded to be honest. it started to explode, you know, almost immediately upon donald trump announcing his candidacy. remember, he announced his candidacy by promising to build a wall on the border with mexico. i mean, for a white supremist who s interested or concerned with the, you know, racial demographics of this country, there s no greater promise that a politician can make. almost immediately the rhetoric exploded. and as donald trump has said, you know, he says he denounces this brand of racism and
his mind and he s not afraid to use blunt talk. when he s talking about islamic terror, for instance, donald trump makes a point saying call it what it is. which is something a lot of people agree with. you know, why dancing around the terminology here. why is he so willing to campaign on calling terrorism radical islamic terrorism but he won t sit there and say this group who says it supports me is a bunch of nazis or racists? he s too busy calling out the same people marching down the streets tearing down local businesses. too busy with the people shooting our cops in the street. look, these people are morons. they re idiots, okay. but we re the republican party. we re the party that freed the slaves. we re the party of martin luther king no, no, no, you re not the party of martin luther king. he wallas a republican. look at your history. my history is clear. your history is ass backwards. okay, the republican party is not the ones who passed the 13th, 14th and 15th amend
than 700 incidents of hateful harassment, intimidation, you know, since the election. and they continue to come in. the issue here is not whether donald trump will stand up and say stop it. it s whether he ll address the very groups that are propagating the rhetoric leading to this violence. which, as you pointed out, he s refused to do or hasn t done yet. i d like to make one more point. so yesterday donald trump released his 100-day plan on youtube. he announced some very thorough, some specific things he was doing by executive action. he referenced a phrase. he said he s going to drain the swa swamp. drain the swam was a meme, a twitter hash tag that grew, exploded, really, after donald trump came forward with plans, with allegations it was a rigged election. and it was spread specifically or among the people spreading the drain the swamp hash tag were avowed racists. white supremists who exist on
country guessing for then, playing for them. the republican party wants to have people with their eyes on the horizon achieving as much as they can. that s what donald trump represents. when you look at the new york city skyline, you see achievement. he wants every american to achieve the same thing. on the backs of poor people. dependent on them. no, i have to respond to this. on the backs of poor people. a donald trump that refused to pay contractors. a donald trump who used immigration laws and abused immigration laws to build these same buildings. you just compared what democrats have done, whatever that is, to slavery. you re saying that democrats and the fact that people are not who and what they should be, they haven t been able to economically thrive in this country you re comparing them to slaves? if you want to talk about that, let s talk about economic inequality and what your candidate is going to do to address some of that. part of the real issue here, carl, is the
but the fact is, donald trump has said this, like, i don t endorse these people, i don t support them, i denounce them. if he wants to run around every single time some moron comes out and throws up his right hand and says i m for white america, whatever, he s going to spend his entire presidency trying to respond to stupid people. let s move forward. look, these people are idiots. that s what it comes down to. doing it blocks from the white house. doing it in his name. right. when asked specifically about it, they had the statement, you know, has continued to denounce racism. david gergen called it a namby pamby response to hate speech. look, hillary clinton donald trump is the president of the united states and he was asked about people who said anti-semitic neo-nazi stuff.