death penalty. he had up first degree murderers to have weakened passes from prison. one was willie horton who murdered a boy in a robbery, stabbing him 19 times, despite a life sentence, horton received ten weekend passes from prison. horton fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing them, and repeatedly raping his girlfriend. so, they have been doing this racist dog whistling forever. every republican president, going back 50 years has known that their party includes racists, antisemites and, white nationalists. and they ve all catered to those people, in some shape or form. and what makes our current political realm so scary is that and that fringe element has now become mainstream. and if you thought it was bad during the trump presidency, well, it s gotten even worse since he left office. the past 18 months have been like racist trumpism on steroids. over the weekend, at a trump rally in nevada, obama senator tom tollville toqueville, racist jokes about black people
husbands, as well as welfare. her tax free cash income, alone, has been running $150,000 a year. george h. w. bush campaigned on racist stereotypes about black people in crime. most famously, the willie horn ad in 1988. it is not only he opposes the death penalty. he had up first degree murderers to have weekend passes from prison. one was willie horton who murdered a boy in a robbery, stabbing him 19 times, despite a life sentence, horton received ten weekend passes from prison. horton fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man, and repeatedly raping his girlfriend. so, they have been doing this racist dog whistling forever. every republican president, going back 50 years has known that their party includes racists, antisemites and, white nationalists. and they ve all catered to those people, in some shape or form. and what makes our current political realm so scary is that and that fringe element
guns blazing. before anybody else, saying, these guys are trying to steal the election. we re not going to let them do it. look at rusty bowers. say what it is in arizona right now. arizona s republican party has been taken over by the biggest fringe element. they re a bunch of lunatics, crazy people. you have the maricopa board that were counting the votes that, time and time again, pushed back against the conspiracy theories. i mean, it s really i mean, these people have done such a great service for america. i would say the same thing for democrats who, of course, did the right thing. like al gore, for instance, conceding the election when he conceded the election, when he could have kept fighting that for months and months.
colleagues wondering where this is coming from and whether the president is actually getting access to the full scope of the facts or whether he is purposely being kept in the dark? my hope is if they actually want to try to salvage this thing he has to do some dramatic changes. it starts with firing ron klain and tony fauci, some of these failed messengers that don t have the trust of the american people. you have to govern for the american people and stop governing for this fringe element on twitter. dana: personnel changes might help but i think it all flows from the top, right, the leadership, the strategy, the decision making all of that. here is how jen psaki explained the low poll numbers. what you see in most of those polls is a real frustration and exhaustion with covid and the fact that it is not over. we share that, we understand that. people are fatigued across the country. the president knows the best most important step he can take is to continue to fight to get the p
against trudeau and the liberal party and so on. so that is in common. so i think the issue, the anti-vaccine mandate issue is not the same issue, as some of the issues driving either right wing populism in europe or the trump phenomenon that is similar to both of those. in those cases we don t see that despite the existence of the confederate or nazi flag, this is the authoritarian-inspired protests. what we know, libertarianism has a relatively shallow base in canada. that s not likely to sustain significant populist parties. let me jump in there. that s quite right, those involved are a fringe element but they are getting huge financial and logistical groups