America's Nationalist party (Republicans) opened their presidential nominating convention in Cleveland Ohio today. Chaos ensued when the never Trump faction of the party demanded a roll call vote which would have, if successful unbound the delegates allowing them to vote for any candidate of their choice. Ken Cuccinelli former Attorney General of Virginia who while serving in that post sought to disenfranchise voters and make abortion illegal led the charge.
After quashing his insurgency a parade of speakers followed a theme that would be recognised by any nationalist. Blame the others: Crime blame minorities, terrorism blame muslims and those refugees from Syria and Iraq who were granted the right to resettle in America, accuse liberals of fostering a war on police, state without any evidence that Hillary Clinton was solely responsible for the deaths of four Americans at Benghazi in September of 2012 and attributes all the other ills facing America to President Obama.
This is how nationalists operate claim victimhood and accuse the others (those not like them) of being at the root cause of their alleged victimhood. Nationalists in America see a clear path to solving these problems. The Immigration Act of 1924 included the Asian exclusion act which set limits on the number of Japanese that could be admitted into the country the earlier Chinese Exclusion Act was passed for the same purpose.
Donald Trump playing upon the unfounded fears of older white conservatives as proposed similar policies, with the sole purpose of excluding all muslims instead of those from Asia.
Harking back to 1968 and the campaign of Richard Nixon other speakers sought to portray America as land of the lawless. Nixon stated that if elected he would return law and order to America. Who's to blame or who can the nationalists point to and say, this group they caused this slide into lawlessness. They are? Black Lives Matter. In the nationalists mindset it's these types of organizations stirring up trouble amongst those have been beaten down by the system that must be dealt with.
Donald Trump started this road to nationalism when he announced his candidacy for President of the United States last year.
After quashing his insurgency a parade of speakers followed a theme that would be recognised by any nationalist. Blame the others: Crime blame minorities, terrorism blame muslims and those refugees from Syria and Iraq who were granted the right to resettle in America, accuse liberals of fostering a war on police, state without any evidence that Hillary Clinton was solely responsible for the deaths of four Americans at Benghazi in September of 2012 and attributes all the other ills facing America to President Obama.
This is how nationalists operate claim victimhood and accuse the others (those not like them) of being at the root cause of their alleged victimhood. Nationalists in America see a clear path to solving these problems. The Immigration Act of 1924 included the Asian exclusion act which set limits on the number of Japanese that could be admitted into the country the earlier Chinese Exclusion Act was passed for the same purpose.
Donald Trump playing upon the unfounded fears of older white conservatives as proposed similar policies, with the sole purpose of excluding all muslims instead of those from Asia.
Harking back to 1968 and the campaign of Richard Nixon other speakers sought to portray America as land of the lawless. Nixon stated that if elected he would return law and order to America. Who's to blame or who can the nationalists point to and say, this group they caused this slide into lawlessness. They are? Black Lives Matter. In the nationalists mindset it's these types of organizations stirring up trouble amongst those have been beaten down by the system that must be dealt with.
Donald Trump started this road to nationalism when he announced his candidacy for President of the United States last year.
Our country is in serious trouble. We don’t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don’t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time.
When did we beat Japan at anything? They send their cars over by the millions, and what do we do? When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo? It doesn’t exist, folks. They beat us all the time.
When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they’re killing us economically.
The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.
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