Lee Atwater Quotes
David Duke is not a Republican. He is a pretender, a charlatan and a political opportunist who is looking for any organization he can find to try to legitimize his views of racial and religious bigotry and intolerance.
In 1989 David Duke, a former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, won election to the Louisiana legislature on the Republican ticket. Republicans throughout the country were embarrassed:
Lee Atwater, 1950-1991, Chairman, Republican National Committee, Presidential Campaign Manager, Quoted in The Washington Post, February 19, 1989
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This quotation was used by the Lyndon B. Johnson 1964 Campaign as: “We represent the majority of the people in Alabama who hate niggerism, Catholicism, Judaism, and all the isms of the whole world.” So said Robert Creel of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. He also said, “I like Barry Goldwater. He needs our help.” The second statement was made at a different time.
The Kansas City Public Libraryhad been vandalized in the wake of the Donald Trump victory in the 2016 Presidntial race. Almost all of the racist, white supremicist, and Nazi organizations and their members were Trump supporters although Mr. Trump denied that he had ever overtly solicited their support, However hia frequent racist and misoginistic remarks attracted frings groups and people who had never before endorsed an American major party Presidential candidate. After Trups victory there was a large increase in the nunber of racist, religious and ethnic attacks against people and property, despite the fact that Trump had appeared on 60 Minutes and told these extremsits in no uncertain terms to "Stop". Neo Nazis and other White Supremecists generally do not with shows like 60 minutres however, and Trump and his staff made little effor to communicate Trums message through the vehicles that they communicagte through.
The girl to which he was referring was President Donald Trump's daughter who married a Jewish man and converted to Judiasm.
Harvey LeRoy "Lee" Atwater was an American political consultant and strategist for the Republican Party. He was an adviser to US presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and chairman of the Republican National Committee. Atwater aroused controversy through his aggressive campaign tactics, especially the Southern strategy.