Donald Trump Is Appealing to "Racist" Voters, Says Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson
"I don't want to have anything to do with it," says Johnson. "It embarrasses me."
Donald Trump "is appealing to a segment I'll just label racist," says Gary Johnson, a former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico and the 2012 Libertarian Party presidential candidate. "It exists and it's out there."
"I don't want to have anything to do with it," says Johnson. "It embarrasses me. The electorate will paint the entire Republican Party with a broad brush as a result of Trump and it won't be positive." Johnson started the 2012 campaign as a Republican before switching to the LP and pulling 1.2 million votes and 1 percent of ballots cast in the general election, recent highs for a Libertarian candidate.
In announcing his presidential campaign in June, Trump asserted that, "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists." Although he allowed that "some, I assume, are good people," NBC and other business associates cut ties the New York-based billionaire.
Going into FreedomFest, Trump was polling second in surveys of Republican primary voters. In the latest polls, Trump is leading the GOP field. At the same time, according to Gallup, 75 percent of Americans don't consider Trump a "serious candidate."
Reason's Nick Gillespie interviewed Johnson during FreedomFest, an annual gathering of libertarians and conservatives that took place between July 8-11 in Las Vegas. Both Johnson and Trump spoke at the event, with the latter drawing some protests but also the biggest crowds of the conference.
A longer interview with Johnson will run tomorrow, covering his views of the rest of the GOP field and Hillary Clinton, his take on domestic and foreign policy, the future of the drug war, and more. Johnson is considering running again for the Libertarian nomination and expects to make a decision sometime over the coming months. He is also the chairman of the nonprofit Our America Initiative, which argues for balanced budgets, reform to defense and drug policy, and improved ballot and debate access for third parties. Johson is also CEO of Cannabia Sativa, a publicly traded company that markets legal cannabis products.
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It seems to be popular to try to attach the label "racist" or "bigot" to anyone who disagrees with lawlessness. We have always been a nation of immigrants, but since 1819 this country has also been a nation of immigration laws. They have changed over time as have many laws and attitudes. But what has been unchanged, until recently, has been an acceptance that we are a nation of laws, not a nation of dictatorial mandates or anarchy which even libertarians might not approve.
"Illegal alien lawbreaker" isn't a race.
Donald Trump is good on issues that Gary Johnson is weak at. Libertarians should be looking at why Trump is beating them in running an insurgent campaign.
Former Republican New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is a racist, himself. People who label others as racists and always think in terms of race, are the racists projecting their racism onto their victims. It is much easier to rob a victim, if you can convince him, he deserves it..
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Racists used to overtly use their racism to justify taking property and dominate others in open confrontation. Since you need total supremacy to do that, this false snake and others like him, have developed another strategy of pretending to be the opposite while using it to divide and conquer to place themselves in positions of power, serving the robber barons who want to turn everyone into slaves with no rights, They want open borders with illegal immigration to flood the country so citizens will have no rights. This is class warfare by the NAZI shadow government in charge.
The real reason they are going after Donald Trump, is because he is against the trade deals that transfer all the power to transnational cartels that make all the laws and fine us if we don't bow to them. Trump is against TPP, TTIP and is even going to violate NAFTA if he does what he says he is going to do. They hate Trump for wanting to use tariffs to bring back jobs to Americans. Trump is more pro Latino than Hillary and Bush, because he wants to bring us good paying jobs. They want to outsource everything and leave the middle class poor.
Who will you vote for? Sweet talking shysters, who impoverish us, or Donald Trump that will give us back the wealth and greatness that the robber barons stole from us?
Nothing effectively unites people better than blaming a common core belief . There are myriad of reasons why people of all colors commit various crimes, yet people always need a target to vent their anger and satisfy their need to blame. Isn't that why humans created satan? Talk about impotency, anger roils inherently through our veins and rears its head at every turn with the convenience of blame. Why isn't anyone talking immigration reform and (viable) solutions?
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