Why don't Democratic politicians attack Scalise like how the GOP attacks Dems?

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 David Duke without the baggage, who was saved by two brave African American Capitol police officers.

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If you think "David Duke without the baggage" is such a terrible comment, you clearly don't understand what that even means.

Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana Acknowledges Addressing Racist Group in 2002.

Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 3 Republican in the House, addressed a group of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in 2002, a Scalise spokeswoman confirmed Monday as his party prepared to take control of both chambers of Congress.

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If you think "David Duke without the baggage" is such a terrible comment, you clearly don't understand what that even means.

Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana Acknowledges Addressing Racist Group in 2002.

Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 3 Republican in the House, addressed a group of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in 2002, a Scalise spokeswoman confirmed Monday as his party prepared to take control of both chambers of Congress.

"David Duke without the baggage" means that, in the years following Duke's rise to prominence in the early 90s, many of his proposed policies (which, remember, were not segregationist or white nationalist during his 90s Gubernatorial or Senate runs), have entered mainstream GOP thinking. The "baggage" is David Duke's white nationalist past (and, as we found out, present).

 

 Duke's policies were always pro-white and anti everybody else. Scalise was saying I'm with Duke but they can't put me in a Klan robe.

 
 

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... in the same way Reagan or Bush or Paul Ryan's policies were, not in an openly white nationalist way. Have you watched the '90 or '91 campaigns?

 So what are you arguing?

 Duke was a racist who's racial hatred and policies were not in question. The fact he put a suit on and adopted Republican lingo, which we all know because of Lee Atwater was just racist dog whistles anyways doesn't change what his intent was. It also doesn't make sense for Scalise to compare himself to Duke if he's just a normal Republican because Duke was never really that.

 You need to do more research into how white supremacists do this. Read the writings of Derek Black the son of Stormfront founder Don Black(and godson of David Duke) and how he explains how Donald Trump won on a platform he helped to popularize.

On Black's usage of white nationalist talking points in a campaign for the West Palm Beach County Republican Committee

Black: I knew from the time that I was a child that white nationalism, as long as it was not necessarily calling itself white nationalism, could win campaigns. So I did things like run little Republican county elections [to] demonstrate that I could win with the majority of the vote [using] white nationalist talking points in a very normal South Florida neighborhood.

I ran training sessions on how people could hone their message to try to get that audience, not freak people out and just tap into things like, "Don't you think all these Spanish signs on the highway are making everything worse? And don't you think political correctness is just not letting you talk about things that are real?" And getting people to agree on that would be the way forward.


He never used racial slurs. He didn’t advocate violence or lawbreaking. He had won a Republican committee seat in Palm Beach County, Fla., where Trump also had a home, without ever mentioning white nationalism, talking instead about the ravages of political correctness, affirmative action and unchecked Hispanic immigration.