As Donald Trump dominates the GOP nomination race and some of his inflammatory comments find favor with the party faithful, CBS News measured how the public feels about his “poisoning the blood” language. A striking number of voters agree with this description of immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally, and among Republicans, associating the remarks with Trump himself makes them even likelier to agree.
No, because the addendum implicit in the dog whistle is that it’s only NONWHITE immigrants who are “poisoning the blood”.
Don’t forget the second addendum: once they take care of the non-white problem, they’ll start making the definition of “white” more and more strict to keep the hate machine running.
Looking at you Catholics, Italians, Irish, Polish, and anyone else who isn’t a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
Those divisions already exist. Back in 2007 I met a guy who belonged to some Christian sect and he didn’t consider Catholics to be Christian, which blew my mind since Catholics were there first. Even back in the 60s Kennedy broke the mold of those who said the US would never have a Catholic president.
Because they existed a long, long time ago. As the straight white conservative male hegemony has lost power, the number of people they’re allowed to hate has shifted accordingly. Now they’re okay with any kind of Catholicism, any shade of white, and you can be a woman as long as you’re okay with being sexually assaulted. If they ever managed to regain their stronghold majority in politics, there’s no doubt in my mind they’d start turning on themselves as the old divisions started to come through.
Yeah but that’s thinking too far ahead for Republican voters. The leopards would never eat their face.