Nick Fuentes speaks at a pro-Trump march in 2020. Donald Trump dined at his Mar-a-Lago club with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, and Fuentes, known for his anti-Semitic and white supremacist rhetoric.
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Although it’s almost thinking of a name Donald J. Trump didn’t like, no matter the outrageous implications, he’d probably be fed up with the endless cycle of stories about his now-infamous dinner with rabid anti-Semite Kanye. West and the famous white supremacist Nick Fuentes.
It was a dinner that raised the question: if you 3 are here, who is watching hell?
Thanks in part to a slow holiday weekend news cycle, as the three attendees’ refusal to let the story die, the ghoul gathering at Mar-a-Lago last week remains all everyone can communicate.
At the time of writing, similar hashtags were still trending on Twitter. The story continued to make an impression on the inside pages of the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN. com, the New York Post and even the conservative Washington Examiner. Mediaite. com, a review of political headlines, there were seven similar stories on the site’s homepage.
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Now, I guess the concept of a dinner party where the former president of the United States, a mentally volatile anti-Semitic rapper, and a neo-Nazi white supremacist get together to talk about the 2024 election and which of them will be the most sensible. The price of the ticket is newsworthy. I guess it sounds a bit disturbed.
But I’ll be fair: I don’t understand what it’s all about. In fact, I find outrage and surprise over this story puzzling and almost comic. A dog, is this, right?
Selfish and subconscious condemnations abounded.
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who may not say whether Trump has a run to be president again even though he could have died at the hands of Trump supporters on Jan. 6, used strong words against his ex. Boss: “President Trump was going to give a seat at the table to a white nationalist, anti-Semitic and Holocaust denier. And I think he deserves to apologize for that. And he deserves to denounce those Americans and their unreserved hateful rhetoric. “
(It’s still transparent how long Pence intends to wait for this apology before doing anything about it. )
Trump’s former Jewish allies, those who in the past looked beyond Trump’s penchant for employing anti-Semitic tropes, have nevertheless had enough (for now). One of them, who supposedly just learned of this horrible oddity, said Trump “legitimizes hatred of Jews and Jew-haters. . . And that scares me. “
Others around the world Trump, his own former ambassador to Israel, joined Republican leaders and some right-wing figures in expressing dismay.
The dinner, in fact, was so unseemly and misguided that some claim it was a great troll, a trap to play Trump and thwart his re-election efforts in 2024, as if “catching” Trump with two fanatics would damage his reputation among his base.
But when it comes to a lack of self-awareness, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s reaction may be the ultimate blow.
“There is no position in the Republican Party for anti-Semitism or white supremacy,” he said Tuesday. “And whoever meets other people who have that opinion, in my opinion, has very little chance of being elected president of the United States. “
It’s a joke?
For never Trumpists like me, who got hooked early on on Trump’s nothing-obscured dog whistles and feared the subversive and ugly elements he would receive in the Republican Party if he were their presidential nominee, it would be fun if he wasn’t. t so infuriating.
Just go through a quick list of examples that show McConnell’s mandate is patently and ridiculously wrong.
The list of Republican candidates and candidates who attended or spoke at white nationalist rallies, or met with Nazi sympathizers, is long.
Many self-proclaimed Nazis and white supremacists ran as Republicans in the election.
Several Republican lawmakers have promoted the big update theory: that non-white Democrats update white voters.
House lawmakers like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rep. Paul Gosar, Rep. Louie Gohmert, Rep. Matt Gaetz, former Rep. Madison Cawthorn, Rep. Steve King and others have realized in recent years that there is, after all, room in the Republican Party for white nationalism and anti-Semitism.
Then, of course, there is Trump himself, the same one who has left room for the Republican Party for those evils, and who continues with them.
So who’s literally caught by the hate group hangout that Trump knowingly combined or just accidentally summoned on purpose?Which Republicans just pretend to be surprised by the electorate that has been courting for years?
I guess a lot.
SE Cupp is the host of “Unfiltered S. E. Cupp” on CNN.
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