By Laura Clawson
Friday Oct 14, 2016 · 12:45 PM EDT
Donald Trump can’t, strictly speaking, birther Hillary Clinton. She’s white. His racist base wouldn’t buy that she was born in Kenya. But he can try to achieve the same effect through other means—convincing a depressingly large chunk of the country that her presidency is illegitimate. And as he starts to realize he’s going to lose, that’s just what he’s trying to do. In speech after speech, Trump is letting his supporters know that when he loses, it won’t be because he actually lost:
On Monday, on a trip through Pennsylvania, Mr. Trump began the day urging the almost entirely white crowd outside Pittsburgh to show up to vote, warning about “other communities” that could hijack his victory.
“So important that you watch other communities, because we don’t want this election stolen from us,” he said. “We do not want this election stolen.”
Later, at the evening rally in Wilkes-Barre, Mr. Trump raised more concerns about voting fraud. “I just hear such reports about Philadelphia,” he said. “I hear these horror shows, and we have to make sure that this election is not stolen from us and is not taken away from us.”
He added for emphasis: “Everybody knows what I’m talking about.”
It’s not just African Americans he’s oh-so-subtly suggesting will steal the election from him:
At a rally in Florida yesterday, he stated, "Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plan the destruction of global sovereignty, in order to enrich these global financial powers."
If you don't get the code in that language, refer to the anti-semitic classic, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It was written in Russia in 1903 and details the make-believe secret Jewish plot to rule the world. It was also a huge hit 30 years later in Nazi Germany.
Read more
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/14/1582418/-The-new-birtherism-Donald-Trump-is-setting-the-stage-to-delegitimize-Hillary-Clinton-s-presidency
This blog will focus on political images I have found all around the Internet, though I will intersperse some commentary and quotes that I find interesting.
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