So you say.
Others differ, and they offer more than opinions.
https://www.politifactbias.com/
Is that so? Who told you that?
Former KKK leader David Duke endorsed Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard
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So you say.
Others differ, and they offer more than opinions.
https://www.politifactbias.com/
Is that so? Who told you that?
I don't know that "modern slavery in America has nothing to do with race," and neither do you.
Think so?
Perhaps you should proselytize that viewpoint in person to those who feel they may still be affected by the racism endemic to antebellum slavery. I'd suggest that you try convincing the crowds on Martin Luther King Boulevard. There's sure to be a street by that name near you.
How do you know Trump was "pretending?"
Read it and weep, leggie. He knew about Duke in 1991 and 2000; in 2015, "I don't know anything about him."
Although it's possible he just has a failing memory.
1991
CNN’s Larry King: “Did the David Duke thing bother you? Fifty-five percent of the whites in Louisiana voted for him.”
Trump: “I hate seeing what it represents, but I guess it just shows there’s a lot of hostility in this country. There’s a tremendous amount of hostility in the United States.”
2000
“The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. [Patrick] Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. [Lenora] Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep.”
— Trump, in a statement saying he will not accept the Reform Party nomination for president, Feb. 13, 2000
2015
Bloomberg’s John Heilemann: “How do you feel about the David Duke quasi-endorsement?”
Trump: “I don’t need his endorsement; I certainly wouldn’t want his endorsement. I don’t need anyone’s endorsement.”
Heilemann: “Would you repudiate David Duke?”
Trump: “Sure, I would do that, if it made you feel better. I don’t know anything about him. Somebody told me yesterday, whoever he is, he did endorse me. Actually I don’t think it was an endorsement. He said I was absolutely the best of all of the candidates.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...d-duke-for-the-record/?utm_term=.822b1192a6d7
I think people were racist long before that also, but political affiliation didn't play a part in it.
He was a member of the anti-Catholic Know Nothings so I automatically despise him.
Is it relevant?
Slavery was over but white nationalism lives on.
Guno צְבִי
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Well that's a pleasant surprise. I stand corrected. Repub wigs will flip upon reading this.
It didn't?
Remind the forum of the principles that the Republican Party was founded upon, will you?
StoneByStone
It's OK to Be White
Well if you only consider sites to be trustworthy if they parrot your own beliefs back to you, then sure, you can dismiss Politifact.
That's Postmodern Conservatism in a nutshell.
The KKK votes Republican these days, and have done so for decades. When Klansmen run for office, they do it as Republicans.
Now does that mean the GOP is the cause of the KKK still being around? Of course not. Just like the DNC isn't the cause of the KKK's creation.
Which is why I said as far as we know. Assuming there is a racial element with no evidence would be moronic. Surely you're not moronic.
We'd have much better luck building a white ethnostate.
Only if you believe it.
You're right. I'm unwilling to accept that it's possible for trump to be a good person. What I can accept is that sometimes bad people can do good things. Capisce?
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gee now where did legion run off to? 
If I'd said I only consider sites to be trustworthy if they parrot my own beliefs back to me, you'd have a point.
Since I didn't, you don't.
Is that so? Who told you that?
As would the converse.
He was a DEMOCRAT. You wish the same kind of thing would happen today, don't you? Confess.
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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
strange how things have changed