been arguing with my progressive liberal friends, don t just write him off as a bigot. this is a strategy to win elections. i m also uncomfortable with strategic racism. but this is the strategy of the republican party to win elections. why are we surprised 20 years of dog whistling becomes dog barking. now we re all up in arms. he represents a significant portion of the white american electorate. so let me just say, i know i know the story about lbj signed 64 and 65, then reagan shows up in mississippi. i get it. george w. bush was like let s big the build tent. they got michael steele and said let s build the big tent. to say there s been alternate discourses that exist within the republican party that just really not like what we re
identify them visually, we know in our history that that has often led to violence. you re absolutely right. you know, as a counterterrorism practitioner, this offends me deeply. no, really. i have really important things to do. people in the counterterrorism community should have other important things to do which is running down the intelligence and the leads we have on known or suspected threats. when we transition away from counterterrorism to predicting protests such as black lives matter, other civil discourses and liberties which are absolutely allowed under the constitution, you re wasting resources. if it was one of my staff, i would be hammering them for wasting my time. we really need to understand that people here have rights. there is a way to go out and do fundamental counterterrorism and intelligence collection without violating those rights and wasting people s time or violating their civil liberties. it feels like there s been a
terrorists in paris. so i don t think it is so much about the refugees as it is about making sure that we re keeping out isis terrorists who are very willing to use any weakness in the system, especially refugee status, to come in not only to this country but also countries like paris and belgium by using that status to get in and gain access to that country. so i think the candidates want to make it clear. this is not about not liking refugees or wanting to help refugees. they want to help them. they don t want to allow terrorists to come in and do what they did in paris. mark, do you agree? obviously, no one wants terrorists in the country, i think too often we use terrorism or discourses as a pretext. despite the fact we have a range of security checks. a range of departments from the state department, defense
weakness in the country, especially refugee status, also countries like paris and belgium, to get in and gain access to that country. so i think the candidates want to make it clear it is not about not liking refugees or not wanting to help refugees. they don t want terrorists to come in and do what they did in paris? mark, do you agree? no, i don t, obviously, no one wants to let terrorists in the country. of terrorism or discourses of ts security as a pretext to not let people in. to play out all sorts of zenophobia, despite the fact we have a lot of ranges of security, they all look at the investigation of potential refugees. we act as if people with just
of a post trump phase. he s not sucking up all the oxygen anymore. there is this fascinating disconnect which i think your packaged showed with the focus group, elites, people like me have been talking about rubio after this debate. rubio, jeb, ted cruz. they didn t mention any of those people, right? they were talking about ben carson and donald trump. there is still this fascinating disconnect between these two discourses about the campaign we have to remember. nia, when you look at gary tuchman s focus group, almost all the people he spoke to going into the debate were ben carson supporters. why are so many people drawn to him because he hasn t laid out a lot of policy specifics? two people mentioned moral character and that s what they like about him. they feel like he s a good person, a good man, a well-mannered and so that s what