Thursday, June 9, 2016

Why Trump could make racist statements and still maintain his base's support.

The question is why Donald Trump can get away with racist remarks and still keep his base's support. The reason, over 65% of Republicans do not believe his attack on a judge ruling in a case that affected his business interest was disqualified because of his Mexican heritage was racist.   Either they are in denial  out of loyalty to their party or support of Trump or they truly harbor racist feelings themselves and are reluctant to admit it or are ignorant of the Constitution.     http://hotair.com/archives/2016/06/08/yougov-poll-51-say-trumps-comments-about-judge-were-racist-65-of-republicans-say-

Even worse, they and Donald Trump have no concept of one of the basic premises on which America was founded, as Joe Scarborough so elequently pointed out today on MSNBC Mourning Joe, citing agreement by such diverse founders as Madison to Jefferson.  Trump's attack on the judge based upon his heritage buts up to fundamental provisions in the Constitution, freedom or religion and non discrimination based upon religion and the independence of the judiciary.

Scarborough owed the Muslim Ban proposed by Trump to his using fear of Muslims to advance his candidacy, playing on dislike of  1.4 billion practioners of their religion.  For that reason, the racist and prejudicial position could be explained, but the danger is that violating that principle allows those who dislike Jews, or even those who do not like Southern Baptists, or anyone else they disliked,  could ban them as well and disqualify them  or pass discriminatory laws against them.

The background of why freedom of religion was so important to our founders was that when given the opportunity to discriminate or persecute those who worshipped differently, was that the colonialists who came to America to escape discrimination and persecution themselves, were themselves practitionist of religious discrimination.  http://www.skyhidailynews.com/news/16324802-113/muftic-freedom-of-religion-so-often-misunderstood

For anti discrimination clauses in the Constitution, visit http://finduslaw.com/us-constitution-5th-14th-amendments

For the most conservative view of "religious tests" provisions in the Constitution, an argument used against the Muslim ban, see http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/6/essays/135/religious-test

https://gma.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-call-donald-trump-loud-nasty-thin-090148066--abc-news-topstories.html




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