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spanone

(135,645 posts)
Tue May 31, 2016, 08:39 AM May 2016

For the Record: Trump blames immigrants for veterans' care

Donald Trump likes to blame illegal immigrants for pretty much everything. And he went there again over the weekend, telling the Rolling Thunder biker rally in D.C. that undocumented immigrants get better care than veterans. (For the record, the VA scandal – where veterans endured long waits and poor care at VA hospitals – involved bureaucrats who falsified records and accepted bribes, and is largely a problem of a broken federal agency, not immigrants. But whatevs.)

Trump promised to get veterans better care and then complained about the turnout: "I thought this would be like Dr. Martin Luther King, where the people would be lined up from here all the way to the Washington monument, right? Unfortunately, they don't allow 'em to come in.”


http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/05/31/trump-immigrants-veterans/85161920/
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For the Record: Trump blames immigrants for veterans' care (Original Post) spanone May 2016 OP
trumps start of the campaign is to villianize immigrants.....make that your straw man beachbum bob May 2016 #1
The global right blames immigrants (and foreigners who stayed home) for all problems. pampango May 2016 #2
Well, at least he's not blaming Obama. GOLGO 13 May 2016 #3
 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
1. trumps start of the campaign is to villianize immigrants.....make that your straw man
Tue May 31, 2016, 08:53 AM
May 2016

typical conservative ploy....attack muslims....attack poor people...the elderly....the "takers" ....except for the rich and the corporate...


sanders could be such a great supporter of hillary along with Warren....and tear trump AND conservatives apart for next 5 months

pampango

(24,692 posts)
2. The global right blames immigrants (and foreigners who stayed home) for all problems.
Tue May 31, 2016, 09:19 AM
May 2016
The stunning truth that explains the rise of the far-right in Britain and elsewhere

The same thing that's happening everywhere else. Right-wing populists are trying to make their country great again by, you guessed it, keeping immigrants out and negotiating great, and I mean great, deals. ... The other part of this is that, as de Tocqueville told us, there's nothing more dangerous than unmet expectations. ... Which is just another way of saying that it wasn't a question of how fast you were moving toward where you thought you'd be, but rather how far you were from it.

That's why it's no surprise that right-wing populism is on the march in Britain and everywhere else for that matter. People are poorer than they thought they'd be, so they don't feel like they can afford to be as generous to immigrants anymore. That's even true in the erstwhile socialist utopias of Denmark, Sweden and Finland, where the right-wing Danish People's Party, Sweden Democrats (who have their roots in neo-Nazism), and Finns Party have all risen near the top of the polls.

Today's right-wing populists, depending on your opinion of Donald Trump, aren't fascists so much as nationalists. So they might exploit racial tensions and they might be illiberal, but they probably don't want to start World War III. ... That's because immigration and globalization are both social issues as much as economic ones that have been fertile ground for nationalists regardless of the state of GDP growth.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/31/the-simple-and-shocking-truth-that-explains-the-rise-of-far-right-politicians-everywhere/
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