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racism and xenophobia. and also peter mentions the way in which race has been used by the republican party and democrats over the course of my political lifetime. so talking about the dog whistles of ronald reagan s welfare queen, bush s willie horton. all of this stuff has been a part bill clinton sister soldier moment. but he said trump has taken it from dog whistle to dog horn. now it s just a blatant appeal and that blatant appeal makes sense in the context of anxiety and anguish around the democratic shifts that are evident in our society. this country is changing and being felt in the intimate spaces of our lives. so you see donald trump appealing to those anxieties, those hatreds, those fears and making political hay of it. but i want to say this, what s interesting is if this is the battlefield we re going to play on, the democrats have to make a decision. they have to make a decision whether or not they will try to get aid. they have to make a decision
of playing for the base. it obviously fits the pattern of never backing down or apologizing even when people in his party said he went too far. by the way, in this case, we have not necessarily seen that pushback. i think there s an argument to be made this is not a great idea just from a strategic standpoint, setting aside moral considerations here. if you look at polling about how americans feel about immigrants and what they bring to this country even over the last three, fours years since donald trump rolled down that golden elevate ir elevator in trump tower, people have gotten more accepting in immigrants, more believing they bring something to this country that they re helping us more than they re hurting us. i looked at the numbers today, even if you look at numbers within the republican party, there has not been a move towards the president and towards tucker carlson s questioning, it has been stat fick ic if it hasn t gone in the opposite direction. there may be base play but
voters? this is what we have to do, this is our opportunity. we re at an inflection point. we re in a cold civil war to echo steve schmidt from a long time ago. people have to choose sides. yes, we have to choose sides. can t play games. who the hell is donald trump to tell me i have to leave? that he has to tell she can leave? i hear this all the time. you can leave if you don t like it. folks used to hear this in the context of the vietnam war. if you don t like it, you can leave. because they think it doesn t belong to us. the country is not ours. so the democrats have to show spine. they have to actually believe, nicolle, in the world that you re describing. they actually have to believe that we can fundamentally become a multi racial democracy. they have to stop lying, just like the republicans. they have to stop believing in the lie and confront the ugliness of who we are. i probably won t say anything else on this show but
chance in hot double hockey sticks trump can win or even get up to 45%? the answer is obviously no. and these i.c.e. raids will not help him with the hispanic community. think about florida and places like georgia and texas, where four years ago barack obama excuse me, back in 2012 barack obama and mitt romney essentially fought harris county, texas, to a draw. biggest county of texas, and beto o rouke won by a quarter of a million votes. that is a census of where that state is heading and that should scare every republican. yes, but they can cheat. gerrymander, we have to understand this immigration policy as a way of addressing and suppressing the vote, trying to in some ways make the country white. if you can t beat them by the numbers, what do you do?