Yup! I truly believe there are many folks who cannot sort fact from fantasy. Look at "Reality TV!" I hear people talk about the actors by their first names as if they are old friends or something. Downright scary.
More proof that Dabob has his finger on the pulse of the nation! Trump's Neo-Nazi And Jewish Backers Are Both Convinced He's Secretly On Their Side WASHINGTON — “He’s not Hitler,” Melania Trump said earlier this month in defense of her husband. It’s a disclaimer not typically offered about the presidential nominee of a modern political party. But white nationalists and neo-Nazis have embraced Donald Trump — sending robocalls on his behalf, calling him their “Glorious Leader” on hate websites, and sending threatening messages to Jewish journalists covering him — and the presumptive Republican standard-bearer has repeatedly declined opportunities to denounce them. Trump stalled before disavowing the endorsement of David Duke, a former KKK leader, and missed a deadline to take white nationalist honcho William Johnson off his delegate list. “I don’t have a message to the fans,” Trump said when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked if he had anything to say to his supporters who sent Holocaust-themed memes and offered overnight casket delivery and homicide cleanup services to Julia Ioffe, a HuffPost Highline contributor who wrote a GQ profile of Melania. Trump still hasn’t spoken out against his anti-Semitic supporters, who also threatened New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman, called for the death of conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro and his children, and told conservative writer Bethany Mandel she deserved “the oven.” That silence has both Trump’s neo-Nazi fans and his Jewish supporters convinced the candidate is secretly on their side. “We interpret that as an endorsement,” Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, named for the Hitler-era tabloid Der Stürmer, told The Huffington Post in an email. “Glorious Leader Donald Trump Refuses to Denounce Stormer Troll Army,” Anglin, who describes himself and his readers as “virulent” Trump supporters, posted on his website after the CNN interview. “We support Trump because he is the savior of the White race, sent by God to free us from the shackles of the Jew occupation and establish a 1000 Reich,” Anglin told HuffPost. Anglin and Trump’s other neo-Nazi supporters love that he called Mexican immigrants rapists, and back his plan to ban all of the planet’s 1.6 billion Muslims from entering the U.S. But they’re also convinced he’ll take on Jews. And although many Jewish conservatives are disgusted that Trump’s campaign has invigorated and delighted fringe neo-Nazi groups, some top Jewish Republicans have decided to simply look the other way. Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, for whom support of Israel is the key issue in selecting a candidate to back, endorsed Trump shortly after Ioffe filed a police report over the death threats she’d received from his supporters. Ari Fleischer, who was a spokesman for President George W. Bush and who now sits on the board of the Republican Jewish Coalition, announced on Twitter that he preferred Trump to likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The anti-Semitic attacks on Ioffe won’t stop Fleischer from supporting Trump, he told HuffPost. “The fact that the Black Panthers came out for Barack Obama doesn’t make Barack Obama a Black Panther sympathizer,” Fleischer, who noted that Trump was his “17th choice” as the Republican candidate, told HuffPost. “You cannot ascribe to a candidate the views of the worst radical fringes that may support them. ... These arguments about how Donald Trump shouldn’t be supported because fringe radical groups have said good things about him — I reject entirely. “I’m sure you’ll find Communists and socialists supporting Clinton,” Fleischer said. Orthodox Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a controversial media personality, wrote in praise of Trump’s support of Israel and “long friendship with the Jewish community.” (Boteach has said he disagrees with Trump’s call to ban Muslims from visiting the U.S.) The Republican Jewish Coalition, a group that says it “works to sensitize Republican leadership in government and the party to the concerns and issues of the Jewish community,” issued a statement on Tuesday suggesting that anti-Semitism is just as much of a problem among Hillary Clinton supporters and Bernie Sanders supporters as it is among Trump’s. “We abhor any abuse of journalists, commentators and writers,” the RJC said, “whether it be from Sanders, Clinton or Trump supporters.” More at the link. And I wish I could state with a clear conscience that I'm shocked by this... but I can't. Not anymore. Critical thinking has flown right out the window for these people. Un-effn-believable.
