Rick Santelli Quotes
All the way back to 2010, the takeover of Congress, there is an unnerved part of the public that understands the history of Hillary Clinton. We've seen her for decades. They understand Donald Trump. There's no disclosure needed there. The sour grapes that we are experiencing isn't going to make a better tasting wine for the Democrats in the future.
At the time most of the racists in the country, especially in the South were Democrats. The liberal Republicans were in favor of Civil Rights along with most non Southern Democrats, but the very conservative Republicans were also opposed to Civil Rights. When Lyndon Johnson, pushed through the Civil Rights Act, the Southerners were furious at their Democratic party. The Conservative Republicans, seeing an opening, courted and pandered to the anti-civil rights Democratic members of Congress, and promised minimal civil rights enforcement. Soon almost all the Southern Democrats became Republicans and the Democratic Party was weakened at the Presidential level and the new conservative Republicans shifted American politics until Bill Clinton and Barack Obama with Congressional Democratic majorities regained power. Nixon’s accurate observation about the Democrats began to be true for the Republicans while the Democratic party no longer had a civil rights struggle every time the party developed a platform or had a convention.
Rick John Santelli is an editor for the CNBC Business News network. He joined CNBC as an on-air editor on June 14, 1999, reporting primarily from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. He was formerly the vice president for an institutional trading and hedge fund account for futures-related products. He is also credited as being a catalyst in the early formation of the Tea Party movement via a statement he made on February 19, 2009.
