Daily Clips: March 2nd, 2016
On CNN, a Trump supporter said that Democrats were “dividing the country” by calling out racism: Something tells me that sort of messaging won’t work in the general election for Trumpers. Jeffrey Lord (the Trump dude) said the KKK was a “leftist” organization and the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party. Yes, really.
Thomas Friedman on the state of American politics:
The G.O.P. fell into the grip of a coalition of far-right media and money people who have created a closed loop of incentives for bad behavior and never getting to hybrid: Deny climate change. Spurn immigration reform. Shut down the Congress. Block Obamacare (even though it was based on an idea first implemented by a Republican governor). Do so, and you get rewarded by Fox TV and the G.O.P. cash machine. Stray from those principles, and you get purged.
That purging eventually produced a collection of G.O.P. presidential candidates who, when they gathered on stage for their first debate, resembled nothing more than the “Star Wars” bar scene at the Mos Eisley Cantina on the remote planet of Tatooine — that assortment of alien species, each more bizarre than the last, from a “galaxy far, far away.”
Video of the day:
Trump Your Enthusiasm pic.twitter.com/cPeweKwgVD
— Seinfeld Current Day (@Seinfeld2000) March 2, 2016
