Hillary Clinton’s Alt-Right Speech Isolated and Destroyed Donald Trump
We hadn’t seen this Hillary in a while. She stayed under wraps during the Democratic primary, never seriously going after Bernie Sanders. But the killer in Hillary came out on Thursday, delivering a devastating indictment of Donald Trump’s associations with the far-right fringe, one meant to permanently delegitimize him among decent people. “A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet, should never run our government or command our military,” she said, daring Republican officials to disagree.
With Trump already trailing badly in most polls, Clinton could have tried to yoke him to the Republican Party so he would drag it down with him. Instead, she sought to isolate and personally destroy him. First came her campaign’s Twitter video earlier today about Trump’s white-supremacist admirers. Usually, a politician trying to link her opponent to the KKK would come dangerously close to the Godwin’s Law line, but Clinton appears to have calculated that few Republicans would rally to their nominee’s defense. Her speech, in Reno, further painted Trump as a creature from the fever swamps, one who has nothing to do with legitimate conservatism. It was able to briskly explain some of the crazier figures and theories Trump has associated with, without getting bogged down in obscure detail. Her list of Breitbart headlines, including “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy” and “Gabby Giffords: The Gun Control Movement’s Human Shield,” tells you much of what you need to know about Trump’s new campaign CEO, Steve Bannon, the former head of the site.
How Hillary Clinton’s alt-right speech isolated and destroyed Donald Trump.