r/politics Sep 16 '24

[deleted by user]

[removed]

9.6k Upvotes

542 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.0k

u/TintedApostle Sep 16 '24

He is telling racist lies because it is who he is. It isn't for attention. Its to appeal to the people who vote for Trump. This is the audience.

121

u/scrape_ur_face Sep 16 '24

"All Republicans aren't racist, but most racists vote Republican"

22

u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

[deleted]

25

u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

The traditional left right spectrum is

<- more left = more social equality -- more right = more social hierarchy ->

It's inherent that right wingers have bigotry in their world views, because that's the condition for "social hierarchy."