God Save America from Donny T ..... Donald Trump versus the NeverTrumpers

In response to Sean Hannity blaming the never Trumpers, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and others if Hillary and not Trump wins
"Open Letter To Sean Hannity...Grow Up.
...and just admit it. You've been in the bag for Donald J. Trump SINCE DAY ONE. And EVERYONE knows it. You've bent over BACKWARDS for the man every step of the way. And EVERYONE knows it. You attacked Ted Cruz regularly while defending Trump at every turn with religious fervor...and EVERYONE knows it.
You've excused everything Trump has said and done in the past...and the present. You certainly didn't do that for Barack Obama...and their policies were and in fact, still are, quite similar. You've excused the fact that he was a Hillary Clinton donor. Not to mention a Clinton Foundation donor. Now he's railing against both.
You've excused his HEALTH CARE position. He said last SEPTEMBER that he'd have the Federal GOVERNMENT pay for health care...even if it cost him votes! Uh, that system is SINGLE PAY Health Care, if I'm not mistaken...WORSE than Obamacare. I thought you were against Obamacare, Sean? Weird.
A couple elections ago, while you were doing the "stop the Hillary train" countdown, or whatever it was...your buddy Donald was FUNDING her. Weird. Oh, AND he was telling Americans she was doing a fantastic job and she'd make a great President. Weird.
While YOU, like us, were railing against Planned Parenthood, Donald was telling Americans that PP should remain FEDERALLY FUNDED! Weird.
While you, like us, were railing against George Soros, he was telling a crowd to "forget about Soros, leave him alone, he's got enough problems." Weird.
While you've been insisting that Trump isn't flip-flopping on issues, he's flip-flopped on so many issues that HE doesn't even know where he stands on them. His latest immigration softening is a perfect example of that. The man who's been proclaiming that "they have to go!"...is now talking about the "humane" path to citizenship for them instead. And, you're OK with that? Weird.
Seriously, Sean, you've been exposed here. You can continue to live in your, "I've been fair and impartial this whole time, I don't know what you're talking about...I just offered everyone a chance to come on the air", world if you want...but EVERYONE knows better.
You can blame Glenn and everyone else who has stuck to their constitutional principles for the pending Hillary election victory if that makes you feel better, but EVERYONE knows better.
We TOLD you the guy couldn't win. We begged and pleaded for a better candidate with conservative, constitutional principles...there were SEVEN of them who would've been pretty great choices...and SIXTEEN that were better than Trump...but YOU and so many others, for whatever reason, had to have Trump.
Join us in reality, my friend. YOU own her."

God Save America from Donny T .... Trump gets Sucker by American President Peña Nieto. Peeeeease don't straight jacket him until November 9th. Let the disconnect between Trump's brain and mouth and political reality continue.

What is Mexico's president thinking? ..... an opportunity for Peña Nieto to call a Stone a Stone ( pun) and remind Donald Trump that Mexico will never pay for his $60  billion wall.

Peña Nieto is taking 'an enormous political risk' meeting with Trump, Mexico's former president says.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s standing in the polls has sunk to record lows, and a new plagiarism scandal isn’t helping. So maybe meeting with a guy even less popular than he is could bring the Mexican public back to his side?

That’s one theory being considered Wednesday as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — a man who once called America’s third-largest trading partner a “racist enemy” — prepares to visit Mexico City later in the day. Trump's approval rating in Mexico, according to a June poll, was 2 percent. Peña Nieto is hovering around 23 percent, other surveys show.

Still, the fact that the Mexican president invited Trump (as well as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton) with less than three months to go in the U.S. presidential race has befuddled many observers of Latin America.

"Why Peña Nieto wants this meeting is a total mystery. No matter how it is spun, it raises candidate Donald Trump’s profile and legitimacy," said Peter Schechter, director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council. "He’s the president of a country. If he wants to stand up to Donald Trump, he doesn’t need him there. Grab a mic and stand up to him."

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox told CNN’s “New Day” early Wednesday that Peña Nieto "is taking an enormous political risk" by hosting Trump. If Peña Nieto is seen as "going soft" on the businessman, Fox warned, "it will hurt him greatly."

Fox had even harsher words during a radio interview. “Incredible that a president of Mexico would meet with a nobody punk like this,” he said. “A president shouldn’t lower himself to that level. The only thing he’s doing is giving a spotlight to a candidate whose numbers show that he’s losing.”

It's possible Peña Nieto issued the invitations thinking neither candidate would ever show up. But it’s also possible that Peña Nieto could use the opportunity to upbraid Trump and defend his country, something many Mexicans may appreciate after being treated like a punching bag for months on the Republican campaign trail. The pair are due to host a news conference after their meeting Wednesday, giving both a stage to air grievances.

The problem for Peña Nieto, some say, is that he has to act presidential and diplomatic, especially considering how sensitive countries generally are about outsiders getting involved in their internal politics. Whereas Trump, despite his attempts to boost his appeal among a broader segment of the U.S. voting population, remains unpredictable. ,,,,, and the Mexican Press and  man in the street in Mexico City rages defiantly against the visit.

The real estate mogul is due to make a major speech about immigration policy in Arizona after his stop in Mexico, and he could cast his meeting with Peña Nieto in any number of ways. "God only knows what Trump is going to say in Arizona — he could boast and tell people about how he told off the Mexican president," Schechter said.

“Nobody can control what he’s going to say the next morning or what he’s going to tweet or how he’s going to tweet. That is his personality,” added a Latin American official familiar with the U.S.-Mexico relationship.

Christopher Wilson, an expert on Mexico at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, said Peña Nieto has to be careful. "On the one hand, the United States, which is the top buyer of Mexico’s exports, is of vital importance to Mexico, and the Mexican president needs to ensure that he has clear channels of communication open with whomever the next U.S. president may be," Wilson said. "On the other hand, Donald Trump is generally viewed quite negatively by the public in Mexico, so if President Peña is seen as too friendly in his meeting with Mr. Trump, he could easily become subject to domestic criticism."

Peña Nieto, a boyishly handsome 50-year-old, began his six-year term in 2012 after campaigning heavily on improving the economy in a country that is making dramatic strides on business, trade and other fronts, but still grappling with security issues.

Peña Nieto has struggled in recent years, especially in the wake of a corruption scandal involving his wife's purchase of a $7 million mansion through a favored government contractor and reports of the disappearance and presumed murders of 43 students, allegedly by drug gangs, as well as the prison escapes of the drug cartel leader known as El Chapo. The Mexican economy also has struggled, recently shrinking for the first time in three years.

An investigation by a Mexican news outlet earlier this summer alleged that Peña Nieto had plagiarized significant portions of his law thesis. The president’s office has downplayed the findings, but it has further weakened his standing in the eyes of the Mexican public. People in Mexico already are discussing the next presidential election, set for 2018, and analysts say an unusually large number of candidates may run.

Trump has repeatedly vilified Mexico throughout his extraordinary run for the presidency, which has revolved heavily around demonizing undocumented immigrants. He’s blasted the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying Mexico fleeced the U.S. in the 1990s deal, and he has promised to build a “beautiful” wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and to have Mexico pay for it.

Mexican leaders have balked at the idea of paying for the wall, while also pointing out that recent studies show the number of illegal immigrants in the United States — huge portions of whom are not Mexican or even from Latin America — are at a low. Supporters of the U.S.-Mexico relationship also say that a strong Mexican economy benefits the United States; at least 6 million jobs in the U.S. are dependent on ties between the countries, experts say.

After several months of keeping his cool, Peña Nieto lashed out at Trump in March, likening the Republican’s tone to Adolf Hitler’s. The Mexican president also instructed his diplomats in the United States to step up their outreach to the American people to correct misconceptions about America’s southern neighbor.

However, in recent months, Peña Nieto has been much more careful in his comments on Trump, disappointing some but leading others to suspect the Mexican leader is more focused on his own political problems. Peña Nieto has indicated in recent months that he doesn't want to get involved in another country's elections, but with his invitations to Clinton and Trump, he seems to have changed his mind.

"Now he’s not only getting involved in U.S. politics, he’s getting massively involved," Schechter said. "He was doing fine just being quiet."

God Save America from Donny T .... Trump gets Sucker by American President Peña Nieto. Peeeeease don't straight jacket him until November 9th. Let the disconnect between Trump's brain and mouth and political reality continue.

What is Mexico's president thinking? ..... an opportunity for Peña Nieto to call a Stone a Stone ( pun) and remind Donald Trump that Mexico will never pay for his $60  billion wall.

Peña Nieto is taking 'an enormous political risk' meeting with Trump, Mexico's former president says.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s standing in the polls has sunk to record lows, and a new plagiarism scandal isn’t helping. So maybe meeting with a guy even less popular than he is could bring the Mexican public back to his side?

That’s one theory being considered Wednesday as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — a man who once called America’s third-largest trading partner a “racist enemy” — prepares to visit Mexico City later in the day. Trump's approval rating in Mexico, according to a June poll, was 2 percent. Peña Nieto is hovering around 23 percent, other surveys show.

Still, the fact that the Mexican president invited Trump (as well as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton) with less than three months to go in the U.S. presidential race has befuddled many observers of Latin America.

"Why Peña Nieto wants this meeting is a total mystery. No matter how it is spun, it raises candidate Donald Trump’s profile and legitimacy," said Peter Schechter, director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council. "He’s the president of a country. If he wants to stand up to Donald Trump, he doesn’t need him there. Grab a mic and stand up to him."

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox told CNN’s “New Day” early Wednesday that Peña Nieto "is taking an enormous political risk" by hosting Trump. If Peña Nieto is seen as "going soft" on the businessman, Fox warned, "it will hurt him greatly."

Fox had even harsher words during a radio interview. “Incredible that a president of Mexico would meet with a nobody punk like this,” he said. “A president shouldn’t lower himself to that level. The only thing he’s doing is giving a spotlight to a candidate whose numbers show that he’s losing.”

It's possible Peña Nieto issued the invitations thinking neither candidate would ever show up. But it’s also possible that Peña Nieto could use the opportunity to upbraid Trump and defend his country, something many Mexicans may appreciate after being treated like a punching bag for months on the Republican campaign trail. The pair are due to host a news conference after their meeting Wednesday, giving both a stage to air grievances.

The problem for Peña Nieto, some say, is that he has to act presidential and diplomatic, especially considering how sensitive countries generally are about outsiders getting involved in their internal politics. Whereas Trump, despite his attempts to boost his appeal among a broader segment of the U.S. voting population, remains unpredictable. ,,,,, and the Mexican Press and  man in the street in Mexico City rages defiantly against the visit.

The real estate mogul is due to make a major speech about immigration policy in Arizona after his stop in Mexico, and he could cast his meeting with Peña Nieto in any number of ways. "God only knows what Trump is going to say in Arizona — he could boast and tell people about how he told off the Mexican president," Schechter said.

“Nobody can control what he’s going to say the next morning or what he’s going to tweet or how he’s going to tweet. That is his personality,” added a Latin American official familiar with the U.S.-Mexico relationship.

Christopher Wilson, an expert on Mexico at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, said Peña Nieto has to be careful. "On the one hand, the United States, which is the top buyer of Mexico’s exports, is of vital importance to Mexico, and the Mexican president needs to ensure that he has clear channels of communication open with whomever the next U.S. president may be," Wilson said. "On the other hand, Donald Trump is generally viewed quite negatively by the public in Mexico, so if President Peña is seen as too friendly in his meeting with Mr. Trump, he could easily become subject to domestic criticism."

Peña Nieto, a boyishly handsome 50-year-old, began his six-year term in 2012 after campaigning heavily on improving the economy in a country that is making dramatic strides on business, trade and other fronts, but still grappling with security issues.

Peña Nieto has struggled in recent years, especially in the wake of a corruption scandal involving his wife's purchase of a $7 million mansion through a favored government contractor and reports of the disappearance and presumed murders of 43 students, allegedly by drug gangs, as well as the prison escapes of the drug cartel leader known as El Chapo. The Mexican economy also has struggled, recently shrinking for the first time in three years.

An investigation by a Mexican news outlet earlier this summer alleged that Peña Nieto had plagiarized significant portions of his law thesis. The president’s office has downplayed the findings, but it has further weakened his standing in the eyes of the Mexican public. People in Mexico already are discussing the next presidential election, set for 2018, and analysts say an unusually large number of candidates may run.

Trump has repeatedly vilified Mexico throughout his extraordinary run for the presidency, which has revolved heavily around demonizing undocumented immigrants. He’s blasted the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying Mexico fleeced the U.S. in the 1990s deal, and he has promised to build a “beautiful” wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and to have Mexico pay for it.

Mexican leaders have balked at the idea of paying for the wall, while also pointing out that recent studies show the number of illegal immigrants in the United States — huge portions of whom are not Mexican or even from Latin America — are at a low. Supporters of the U.S.-Mexico relationship also say that a strong Mexican economy benefits the United States; at least 6 million jobs in the U.S. are dependent on ties between the countries, experts say.

After several months of keeping his cool, Peña Nieto lashed out at Trump in March, likening the Republican’s tone to Adolf Hitler’s. The Mexican president also instructed his diplomats in the United States to step up their outreach to the American people to correct misconceptions about America’s southern neighbor.

However, in recent months, Peña Nieto has been much more careful in his comments on Trump, disappointing some but leading others to suspect the Mexican leader is more focused on his own political problems. Peña Nieto has indicated in recent months that he doesn't want to get involved in another country's elections, but with his invitations to Clinton and Trump, he seems to have changed his mind.

"Now he’s not only getting involved in U.S. politics, he’s getting massively involved," Schechter said. "He was doing fine just being quiet."r:
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Cameos From Zion: God Save America from Donny T.... Trump on Black A...

Cameos From Zion: God Save America from Donny T.... Trump on Black A...: I have a dream that people will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King,  Aug...

God Save America from Donny T.... Trump on Black Aspiration.-Total and Absolute disconnect from Martin Luther King''s I Have A Dream Speech

I have a dream that people will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King, August 28, 1963, speaking in front of  over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, 

It’s hard to imagine a much worse pitch Donald Trump could have made for the black vote.Trump to African Americans: 'What do you have to lose' by voting for me?

Speaking at a rally in Dimondale, Mich., Aug. 19, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Democrat Hillary Clinton of exploiting African American voters. "America must reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton," Trump said. (The Washington Post)

At a rally Friday night in Dimondale, Mich., Donald Trump repeated a version of a plea to black voters that he had offered 24 hours earlier in North Carolina.

"No group in America has been more harmed by Hillary Clinton's policies than African Americans," he said, apparently pointing to individuals in the crowd. "No group. No group. If Hillary Clinton's goal was to inflict pain to the African American community, she could not have done a better job. It is a disgrace."

"Detroit tops the list of most dangerous cities in terms of violent crime, number one," he said from a city 90 minutes away from Detroit with a population that is 93 percent white. "This is the legacy of the Democratic politicians who have run this city. This is the result of the policy agenda embraced by crooked Hillary Clinton."

He went on.

Donald Trump smiles during a roundtable discussion about national security on Aug. 17 at his Trump Tower office in New York City. (Gerald Herbert/AP)

"The only way to change results is to change leadership. We can never fix our problems by relying on the same politicians who created our problems in the first place. A new future requires brand new leadership," he said.

"Look at how much African American communities are suffering from Democratic control. To those I say the following: What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump? What do you have to lose?" he asked. "You live in your poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?"

This was not the Teleprompter Trump that we saw in Charlotte, interlacing his prepared remarks with occasional asides. This was Traditional Trump, riffing a bit more on what he wanted to say in a manner that probably didn't do him much good.

Consider: Black Americans are not "living in poverty" as a general rule. A quarter of the black population is, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, about the same as the percentage of Hispanics. In Michigan, the figure is slightly higher. Most black Americans don't live in poverty, just as most white Americans don't.

Consider: The unemployment rate in the black community is higher than that in the white community, as it has been since the Department of Labor started keeping track. Among young blacks, though, the figure is not 59 percent — unless (as PolitiFact noted) you consider not the labor force but every young black American, including high school students. Many young black high school students are unemployed. This isn't a metric that the Labor Department typically uses, for obvious reasons, but calculating the rates for young whites gives you about 50 percent, too.


Consider: Black voters are perfectly able to evaluate candidates on qualities other than their political parties. Black voters began supporting the Democratic Party heavily thanks to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Since then, they have consistently voted for the party — a party that is one-fifth black and which since 1964 has elected the vast majority of the black members of Congress. (This argument from Al Sharpton in 2004 is worth a read.) Democrats win the support of black voters consistently because those voters like the work that they do and like the fights that they fight.

When President Obama won reelection in 2012, 93 percent of black Americans thought he was doing a good job. That's also the percentage of the vote he received, according to exit polls, beating Mitt Romney by 87 points.

And yet, somehow, Trump is doing worse.


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The GOP presidential nominee is out on the trail ahead of the general election in November.

In the battle between Trump and Clinton, he consistently lands in the low single digits of support from black Americans. In some polls, he has received 0 percent support, a negligible amount. In our most recent survey, he got 2 percent support.

Why? Because nonwhite voters view Trump very unfavorably. We wrote about this in June but can now update the numbers. Four-in-5 blacks have a very unfavorable view of Trump, with a slightly higher percentage, 83 percent, agreeing with the idea that he is biased against women and minorities. Eighty-seven percent of black voters we surveyed indicated that they would be anxious if he were elected president and only 6 percent "comfortable." The numbers for Clinton — who very quicklytweeted that Trump's Michigan comments were "so ignorant it's staggering" -- were nearly completely flipped.

There are any number of reasons that black Americans might view Trump unfavorably, starting with his 2011 effort to cast suspicion on Obama's place of birth. Or, probably, starting with his full-page ad calling for the death penalty against five black teenagers in New York City who were accused of rape — wrongly, as it turned out. Or perhaps thanks to the support his current candidacy is getting from people like former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.


There's no reason to think that Trump's suggestion that black Americans had "nothing to lose" because they "are living in poverty" will do anything to reverse that trend. Nor was his insistence in North Carolina that he should get votes from black voters because "the inner cities are so bad." Some black people, research shows, live in places besides the "inner city."

So why make the argument? It could be, simply enough, that Trump doesn't have anyone in his inner circle that can provide a sense of how to reach out to the black community. One adviser said on CNN that Trump making his appeal in a mostly white town wasn't a big deal and that "maybe it would have been nice if he went and had a backdrop with a burning car." Or maybe Trump was listening to Ben Carson, who in May made a similar argument for Trump: He would only be president for four years, so what could go wrong?

It's likely that Trump's continuing lack of meaningful outreach to black voters keeps him from understanding effective ways of arguing his case. When he went to Baton Rouge to see flood damage, he stopped at a Baptist church with a mostly white congregation.

Or maybe black voters aren't his intended audience. Maybe, with his poll numbers low thanks to soft support from his own party, Trump is trying to convince Republicans that he wants or can earn the black vote. In our most recent poll, one-fifth of Republican men and a quarter of Republican women agreed with the statement that Trump is biased against women and minorities. He gets 90 and 80 percent of the vote from those groups, respectively. Maybe this is an attempt to get them to see him as doing real outreach, even if he isn't.

Of all of the claims Trump made Friday night, though, perhaps none is as laughable as his ultimate prediction.

"At the end of four years, I guarantee you, that I will get over 95 percent of the African American vote," he said. "I will produce for the inner cities, and I will produce for the African Americans. The Democrats will not produce, and all they've done is taken advantage of your vote. That's they've done. And once the election's over, they go back to their palaces in Washington, and you know what, they do nothing for you, just remember it."

Black voters will not give Trump 95 percent of the vote should he be up for reelection in 2020. If he got 25 percent of the vote from black Americans, it would be remarkable. And unless he persuades his own party to support his candidacy, the only one returning to a golden palace after Election Day will be Donald Trump.

God Save America from Donny T.....What it means when people say that Donald Trump has ties to the white supremacist ”alt-right.”

Anti-Semitic Meme Used by Trump Was Taken From White Supremacist Message Board

Website reveals that meme declaring Hillary Clinton to be the 'most corrupt candidate ever,' featuring a Star of David, was posted on an online neo-Nazi message board over a week before Trump tweeted it.

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What it means when people say that Donald Trump has ties to the white supremacist ”alt-right.”

“Racist ideas, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas—all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the alt-right.”

Last week, Hillary Clinton called out Donald Trump and his advisers for embracing a hate movement—the so-called “alt-right” political ideology. The phrase has been tossed around a lot lately, and as advocates for the movement have lavished in the increased attention, it’s important to clear a few things up.

First: What does alt-right mean?

The alternative right, commonly known as the alt-right, is defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center (an organization that tracks hate groups), as a “set of far-right ideologies at the core of which is a belief that ‘white identity’ is under attack by multicultural forces using ‘political correctness’ and ‘social justice’ to undermine white people and ‘their’ civilization.”

In other words: This is not conservatism or the Republican Party. This is a movement that fosters anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-multiculturalism, and anti-women rhetoric. This is a white supremacist movement, and one that Trump has not only refused to denounce—it’s one he actively courts.

What connections does Trump have to the alt-right and white supremacy groups?

Trump recently hired Steve Bannon, the former head of an extremist right-wing website called Breitbart, as his campaign CEO. Bannon likes to brag that Breitbart is the “platform for the alt-right.” And as the Southern Poverty Law Center puts it, those ideas are “racist ideas, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas—all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the alt-right.”

Here are some other facts you should know:

• New York magazine examined a single week of Trump’s Twitter account and found that 62 percent of the accounts he retweeted had white supremacist connections.
• When Trump retweeted two white supremacists on Twitter within a minute, the editor of awhite supremacist website called Daily Stormer said, “Whereas the odd White genocide tweet could be a random occurrence, it isn’t statistically possible that two of them back to back could be a random occurrence. It could only be deliberate. … Today in America the air is cold and it tastes like victory.”
• Trump once refused to disavow the support of David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. And when asked if he would support Duke’s run for Senate, he said would have to see who the Democrat was.
• The chairman of the American Nazi Party said a Trump presidency will present “a real opportunity” for Nazi beliefs.

What do alt-right Trump supporters sound like?

They sound a lot like Trump.

He’s continually shown that he shares their core beliefs, and he continues to normalize and elevate their views. Just take a look for yourself.

When he entered the crowded Republican field, Trump captured headlines by saying Mexican immigrants were rapists and criminals.

"The ‘freedom’ for other races to move freely into white nations is nonexistent. Stay in your own nations, we don’t want you here."

Matthew Heimbach, “I Hate Freedom,” Traditionalist Youth Network, July 7, 2013

As Trump got closer to securing the Republican nomination, he ramped up his nationalist rhetoric, touting a slogan used by an anti-semitic organization.

"I oppose the Jewish diaspora in the United States and other white societies. I would like to see the white peoples of the world break the power of the Jewish diaspora and send the Jews to Israel, where they will have to learn how to be a normal nation."

Greg Johnson, a notorious white nationalist, August 2011

Extremist supporters of this hate movement have happily found a candidate in Trump.

We’ve got to vote for Trump. We have no choice by that. ... Every movement in the history of the world has to have a growing stage. It has to have a develop stage. Donald Trump is essential for that.

David Duke, former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, August 2016

Trump’s rhetoric—mirrored by the alt-right—has lead to violence, racism, and intolerance around the country.

"On August 20, 2015, in Boston, Massachusetts, two Trump supporters physically attacked a homeless Latino man. One of the attackers informed police that he was motivated by Trump’s immigration message that Mexicans were criminals and rapists."

When Islamophobia Turns Violent, Georgetown University, April 2015

"Several weeks ago, in Washington, D.C., a Muslim woman was called ‘a worthless piece of Muslim trash’ and a ‘terrorist’ by a fellow Starbucks customer. … After pouring something on the Muslim woman, the assaulter told her victim that she was planning on voting for Donald Trump, who would send Muslims ‘back to where you come from.’"

Slate, May 2016

"‘My students are terrified of Donald Trump,’ says one teacher from a middle school with a large population of African American Muslims. ‘They think that if he’s elected, all black people will get sent back to Africa.’"

Southern Poverty Law Center, April 2016

Are these the type of people you want hanging around the White House?

Don’t take this lightly—this is a hate movement, and nothing more than a rebranding of white supremacy and racism.

“There are more white supremacists who are defining themselves as part of the alt-right,” says Marilyn Mayo, director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. And these are the people who are Trump’s supporters and the closest friends of his inner circle.

God Save America from Donny T ...Trump Could Be Catastrophic for Israel

Trump Could Be Catastrophic for Israel by Louis René Beres ( Guest). Published with permission of the Author and US Today where the article first appeared on August 30th ,2016

Conventional wisdom suggests that Donald Trump would be better for Israel than his opponent. But without getting into any systematic comparison of concrete foreign policy proposals, it is nonetheless plain that the Republican candidate's crudely cobbled together ideas on world affairs hold substantially little real promise for Israel. Indeed, no meaningfully capable analysis of Trump's Aug. 15, 2016 speech could ever avoid the conclusion that his enthusiastically expressed willingness to "work with" Russia, Syria, Iran and Hezbollah would in fact be injurious to the Jewish State.Senior advisers of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu have however indicated that they would prefer to deal with Hillary Clinton who they know very well rather the unpredictable and unstable Donald Trump.

From the standpoint of Israel's existential security, this is actually a charitable assessment. After all, Trump's proposals would go so far as to put Israel's physical survival at a tangibly greater risk. What else can be said for a seemingly random patchwork of ready-made phrases that call implicitly or explicitly for accelerating Russian military basing in Iran? How else ought anyone interpret Trump's stunningly naive call for combating the Islamic State group at all costs, even if that effort should correspondingly strengthen the Shiite militia Hezbollah? And how should a tiny Jewish state in the region that is inextricably consecrated to a sacred posture of "Never Again" simultaneously countenance or effectively support the continuing mass murder of Syrian children by the Damascus regime?

For Israel, these should not be difficult questions.

For Israel's allies in the United States, moreover, it's finally time to separate out purposeful and refined strategic analyses of the "Trump foreign policy" from the endless litany of barren clichés, emotional arguments and thoroughly empty witticisms. It's not that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats are in any way perfect on Israel, but rather that Donald Trump is manifestly and incontestably imperfect.

For Israel, judging at least by the Republican candidate's own steadily enthusiastic words of support for Jerusalem's chief enemies, a Trump presidency could be irremediably catastrophic.

Ultimately, Israel's core survival will not be about Hillary's emails, or Benghazi, or her speaking fees or the Clinton Foundation. It will be about each identifiable enemy's particular "order of battle" and about certain ratios and correlations of raw power in the Middle East, including various and bewilderingly complex intersections between state and substate adversaries. In this vital regard, Israel will not be helped in any way by Trump's ill-conceived and persistently inexpert recommendations.

That, again, is actually a charitable assessment of Trump's proposed foreign policy.

Crafting a nation's foreign policy is never a job for narrowly educated political operatives. It is, rather, an inherently nuanced intellectual task, one that calls for a deep and genuine appreciation of strategic interdependencies and also of assorted and corresponding legal obligations. It should not be "forgotten" by Trump that international law remains an integral part of the law of the United States, largely by way of the Constitution's Article VI "Supremacy Clause" and of associated Supreme Court decisions, especially the Paquete Habana (1900).

During my almost half-century of teaching international relations and international law at Princeton and Purdue, I instructed my students that there are multiple and sometimes indecipherable axes of conflict in world politics. Understood in terms of Trump's August 15 foreign policy speech and Israel, this point means, inter alia, that we ought never to assume that inflicting harms upon any one selected enemy is automatically in our own overall national interest. Instead, our American president must always bear in mind that what is appropriately harmful to one adversary or set of adversaries (e.g., the Islamic State group) may at the same time be altogether helpful to other principal enemies.

Trump remains so singularly focused on the perceived threat from the Islamic State group that he is also willing to tolerate deepening military cooperation between Iran and Russia. Already, Tehran is allowing Russian military aircraft to operate against Syrian rebels from an Iranian air base in Hamadan Province. From the particular standpoint of Israeli national security, further encouraging any such allowance would make it increasingly difficult or perhaps operationally impossible to mount any residually indispensable preemptions against Iran. From the starkly amateurish perspective of candidate Trump's expressed foreign policy preferences, it must be judged reasonable or "cost-effective" to sacrifice Israel's most critical security requirements for the presumed benefit of defeating a single substate Jihadist foe.

The ultimate irony of Trump's disjointed preferences is that they would actually work on behalf of the Islamic State group, while at the same time strengthening America's most formidable enemies. Although still unrecognized by Trump, or by his well-hidden "advisers," the prospective existential threat to the United States from Russia remains immeasurably greater than any conceivable threat from the Islamic State. It follows, among many other recognizable flaws in Trump's proposed foreign policy, that the Republican candidate's prescriptions would be calculably injurious to both Israel and the United States.

In the matter of Donald Trump's proposed foreign policy, the conventional wisdom is markedly unwise. This is true, of course, unless one should somehow prefer Russia, Syria, Iran and Hezbollah to Israel and America.

Louis René Beres

Louis René Beres was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971) and is the author of many books and articles dealing with nuclear strategy and nuclear war. His latest academic articles have been published in the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,” “Harvard National Security Journal” (Harvard Law School), “International Security” (Harvard), “Parameters: Journal of the US Army War College” (Department of Defense), “International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence,” “Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs,” “Brown Journal of World Affairs” and Oxford University Press. Dr. Beres' 12thbook, “Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel's Nuclear Strategy,” was published earlier this year, by Rowman & Littlefield.