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It's official. The polls show that the Republicans back Hitler and Hitlers rhetoric. When asked "do you support full genocide of every brown person?" conservatives overwhelmingly answered "yes"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/poll-gop-voters-back-trumps-hitler-rhetoric-immigrants-rcna133924
Maddow Blog | Poll: GOP voters back Trump’s Hitler-like rhetoric on immigrants
Story by Steve Benen • 8h
It’s been about two months since Donald Trump published a Veterans Day message in which he vowed to “root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our Country.” The phrasing had unsettling historical antecedents: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini used eerily similar dehumanization rhetoric.
But the former president didn’t stop there. Soon after, the likely Republican nominee started peddling a line, with unnerving frequency, which said immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” echoing similar phrasing used by Hitler.
Would GOP voters endorse such talk? We didn’t have to wait too long to find out.
In mid-December, a Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll found that 42% of likely GOP caucusgoers in the Hawkeye State said Trump’s “poisoning the blood” rhetoric made them more likely to support the former president’s candidacy, not less.
As striking as the results were, the survey was limited to Republicans who were likely to participate in a nominating contest. The latest CBS poll asked a similar question to a broader group of participants.
Roughly half the respondents were asked about the “poisoning the blood” rhetoric without attributing the language to a specific candidate.
According to the results, 72% of Republicans at the national level agreed with the anti-immigrant language when the phrasing wasn’t attributed to anyone, and that total climbed to 82% when respondents were told the former president was the one who said it.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/poll-gop-voters-back-trumps-hitler-rhetoric-immigrants-rcna133924
Maddow Blog | Poll: GOP voters back Trump’s Hitler-like rhetoric on immigrants
Story by Steve Benen • 8h
It’s been about two months since Donald Trump published a Veterans Day message in which he vowed to “root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our Country.” The phrasing had unsettling historical antecedents: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini used eerily similar dehumanization rhetoric.
But the former president didn’t stop there. Soon after, the likely Republican nominee started peddling a line, with unnerving frequency, which said immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” echoing similar phrasing used by Hitler.
Would GOP voters endorse such talk? We didn’t have to wait too long to find out.
In mid-December, a Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll found that 42% of likely GOP caucusgoers in the Hawkeye State said Trump’s “poisoning the blood” rhetoric made them more likely to support the former president’s candidacy, not less.
As striking as the results were, the survey was limited to Republicans who were likely to participate in a nominating contest. The latest CBS poll asked a similar question to a broader group of participants.
Roughly half the respondents were asked about the “poisoning the blood” rhetoric without attributing the language to a specific candidate.
According to the results, 72% of Republicans at the national level agreed with the anti-immigrant language when the phrasing wasn’t attributed to anyone, and that total climbed to 82% when respondents were told the former president was the one who said it.
