Denouncement Quotes
The Congress was debating President Johnson’s Voting Rights Bill. Southern Democrats and Conservative Republicans were opposed to legislation that would prevent states from discriminating against Black and other minority voters. Johnson needed the support of minority leader Dirksen and the moderate Republicans. Dirksen was at the White House discussing the strategy for the passage of the bill. This quotation illustrates the “partisanship of the day” where opponents were quite friendly even when they were “denouncing” each other, The venom and personal disrespect and hatred of the beginning of the 21st century was absent in the 1960s even though the most radical and controversial legislation was being debated. The Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Non Discrimination in Housing and Medicare were all passed that year with filibusters and cloture votes. Yet there was always comity.
President Trump did not personally believe in the tenets of White Supremacism, but a significant part of his political base did. His public approval in his first year in office was the lowest in history since such were measured, and he was desparate to hold on the the support of his base. So, unlike most Republicans who castigated and condemned White Supremacism and other hate groups, Trump not only remained silent, but actually tried to create a moral equivelence between some of the White Supremacists and some of the Left Wingers who were protesting the White Supremicists. Trump insisted that he did not condone or encourage hate groups or white supramacy advocates, but most of the public did, and, most importantly, they thougth that he did and gave him public credit for that as in this quotation. See {645361}.
President Trump did not personally believe in the tenets of White Supremacism, but a significant part of his political base did. His public approval in his first year in office was the lowest in history since such were measured, and he was desparate to hold on the the support of his base. So, unlike most Republicans who castigated and condemned White Supremacism and other hate groups, and the alt-Right, Trump not only remained silent, but actually tried to create a moral equivelence between some of the White Supremacists and some of the Left Wingers who were protesting the White Supremicists. Trump insisted that he did not condone or encourage hate groups or white supramacy advocates, but most of the public did, and, most importantly, they thougth that he did and gave him public credit for that as in this quotation. See {645359}.
