Rick Wilson on racism in the Republican Party

[@robertpolk5406]

There’s been a broad base of hatful Republicans for decades and the GOP was always happy to have their votes. Our country is now reaping what they’ve sowed.

[@misplacednewyawker]

FUX News and Hatred radio over the past few decades has not helped.

[@misplacednewyawker]

@Riff Schmidt Says the guy who likes the party that suppresses minority votes and calls Mexicans rapists and murderers. Says the guy that supports a POTUS that spews hatred all the time as a campaigning tool. Thankfully sane GOPers are jumping ship. I respect The Lincoln Project. The GOP needs to dismiss the bigots that run their political party.

[@luciensartikilledjohnf.ken1689]

The Republican party used to be good like 30 years ago until Trump came. It's the Trumplican party now.

[@brianpraul9758]

@Riff Schmidt I feel very, very sorry for you. Please take some time away from the computer and calm down

[@TheChinBurton]

@EJ McG highest death toll on earth?? Wtf are you smoking man

[@mikeinkc]

As an African American man.. it's too little, too late.

[@pdaniaful]

Candace Owens doesn't see this, that woman is so lost it's beyond words.

[@MaryJane-dc8eb]

>:(

[@bspoon2529]

@@pdaniaful don’t even mention her no need to give her more of a platform she already has

[@ms.5779]

mikeinkc TRUE!

[@jacobsn2370]

@@pdaniaful she's paid for

[@olyokie]

It's their central theme. Confederate flags. Backing murderous cops. For profit prisons...... Racism is their rallying cry......

[@daleboxsell2805]

That’s the left alright.

[@kamzamosweu2269]

@@daleboxsell2805no you are not being honest to yourself.

[@olyokie]

@@daleboxsell2805 Your homeschooling is showing.

[@JK-gu3tl]

Jimmy Carter ran a racist campaign for governor. When will he get cancelled?

[@everythingdibs344]

@@JK-gu3tl wasn’t jimmy carter pretty hated by the Democratic Party because he was so moderate that a lot even claimed that he wasn’t a democrat.

[@Microbex]

No surprise there.

[@angelofsarcasm4924]

This is what happens when people blindly follow political parties.

[@2027frfr]

Aka sheep

[@BuildTestSend]

So true

[@eddieboggs8306]

Look for what the candidate is doing for the better ment of America. No candidate that can't have a ton of wrong. If they're being a nuisance to freedom and dividing the nation it time to let the candidate start packing and getting ready to leave.

[@bspoon2529]

exactly doesn’t matter gop or democrat it’s all the same

[@mja91352]

Nonsense

[@johnjohnson2540]

Umm...I call BS. Reagan famously talked about a “welfare queen” and used the “young buck” dog whistle.

[@ecclairmayo4153]

Bingo. This isnt new!

[@jzthompson9598]

He was very racist. Teflon Ron, because he was oh, so pleasant while he was shafting you. Great actor.

[@Ed-uz6em]

He was a racist to the bone

[@donaldcarpenter5328]

Wilson is an UNREPENTANT GOP PARTY HACK!!!

[@wraynephew6838]

Ronald Reagan was caught on tape calling African Leaders monkeys to Richard Nixon

[@jamesbaldwin6235]

This isn't news. As a african American man I've dealt and known about racism for years when folks ignored it. But im use to it. And don't let this racism and bigotry in this country stop me from providing for my family. So I don't care how racist trump and his party are. We all ready knew it.

[@PoeLemic]

@Britt Yeah, I'm not shocked either. Why all these Peoples like this, trying to act like they's the only ones who seen it? I seen it, lots of it, from day one with the Super Racist.

[@bspoon2529]

exactly i’ve dealt with racism all my life it’s a part of life we knew trump was like this way before he was elected im talking about in the 80’s

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

From childhood we are mistreated and underserved then we are blamed for having to struggle more just to reach a lesser goal

[@Julie-jl2kk]

why does ur name sound familiar?

[@unnamed7158]

facts

[@Abmotsad]

Oh, I just love all the pearl-clutching going on in the GOP. Puh-leaze. Racism, xenophobia, homophobia - every sort of obia and ism there is - has been the defining characteristic of conservatism for half a century.

[@redxix88]

@David Eller People fear what they don't understand. Also, a lot of men are afraid of being perceived as gay.

[@SeriousPOV]

@David Eller So that is your "intelligent" reply...with boys & buttholes. You are proof of the rot and stench which now exudes from the Republican Party

[@talimn]

Thank you. This is everything that matters here.

[@richclarey]

@David Eller Get a shrink.

[@JusNoBS420]

@David Eller Ever notice how especially this election year whatever someone says to a Republican they just turn it around and say the same thing.

[@normbatchelor7403]

Ronald Reagan Started his presidential campaign in Philadelphia Mississippi for a reason.

[@contrafax]

"Welfare queens"

[@tracymonroe6001]

Exactly! Republicans have relied on racism for decades but it's been a well-packaged, plausibly deniable racism--dog whistles and "compassionate conservatism."

[@pamelamccall5653]

@@contrafax Exactly! Reagan opened the door to racism out loud.

[@contrafax]

Nixon is the one who started.

[@mahadali2739]

Exactly. Donald Trump, when compared to Reagan, is a difference in degree, not a difference in kind. And Rudy Gulianni’s mayoralty, from its inception, was steeped in racism. From the campaign against Dinkins. To supporting the police unions in literally every instance of police brutality (amadou diallo, abner louima), to implementing the biggest mass violation of civil rights in recent memory - Stop & Frisk. The fact that Rick Wilson doesn’t see that is very telling. The leopard hasn’t changed its spots, it’s just bitter about losing the 2016 primary.

[@timellison]

Reagan and Nixon before him DIDN'T play footsie with racism and racists? Southern strategy? Reagan's Mississippi speech? Reagan's despicable comments on African delegates to the U.N.?

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

Not to mention the Welfare Queen speech. A lot of people like this man are still in denial about just how deep the racism runs in the GOP and in America as a whole. You don't have to go to the level of a David Duke or a Proud Boys member to be a racist.

[@Bustermachine]

They dog whistled just enough that people could ignore it in favor of what they wanted to believe. Nixon, especially, as he came to power in the afterglow of the civil rights movement when people thought an enduring victory had been won. And like all armies in the aftermath of a victory, began to disarm and carry on with their lives. The thing about racial prejudice, or class prejudice, or any sort of prejudice is that the mechanism to enforce them can be wonderfully subtle and difficult to see by the human eye. But they can also be powerful, self reinforcing, and even finance themselves. School district boundaries. Prioritizing public services in particular neighborhoods while leaving others to rot. Harsher sentences for crimes based on racial disposition. Etc. While their public reasons for these policies are very easy to sell on the surface. "I'm protecting private property. I'm protecting my children's education! I'm tough on crime!"

[@lomurray4069]

He stood there is Mississippi, where those 3 civil rights workers died and announced his presidency. I will never forgive that.

[@annowens5019]

@duckduck Goal ... Amen.

[@annowens5019]

@@lomurray4069 ... You pay attention to Reagan's behavior. Why as a former Governor of California would Reagan, announce his candidacy near Philadelphia, Mississippi (Where Chaney, Goodman and Sherwerner were Murdered) with a wink and nod to "State's Right". Before his death Lee Atwater apologized for his part in the "Southern Strategy". VOTE these two IMPOSTERS: Trump/McConnell Out of OFFICE On November 03rd.

[@richardblock2458]

Can't purge the base - they ARE the party.

[@suzetteglover196]

Bingo! Full stop.

[@ecclairmayo4153]

Bingo!

[@someguy9607]

oh really? May be make sense to ban GOP? Imprison all Republicans, why not? Castrate all white cisgender males - just in case? That is true "democratic" way isn't it?

[@freddesmet259]

Unfortunately Sarah Palin was given a platform to help lay open this dark under belly. Some of these men in the Lincoln Project share the blame.

[@easyon12]

So So true!

[@80s_Boombox_Collector]

Palin was popular for the same reason Trump was popular -- they're both politically incorrect people who don't have strong academic credentials or analytical speaking styles. They appeal to people who didn't do very well in school, who felt like they were being "talked down to" by Obama.

[@kewltony]

The Lincoln Project is synonymous with neoconservativism. Almost the entire team that was behind the Iraq War Disaster is now part of the Lincoln Project.

[@misstunes1765]

Well let's be glad she "lay it open" then, enough of the racism doesn't exist, American Exceptionalism BS. We need to get to work on addressing and excelling beyond all the "isms" to make America great.

[@80s_Boombox_Collector]

Yeah the Lincoln Project wouldn't even exist if someone more liberal than Biden had won the Dem ticket. They'd be out there screaming "socialist" just like every other Republican.

[@jabbalechat7910]

Thanks to 60 Minutes for profiling the Lincoln Project... 👍👏😻

[@danponitlong]

TRUE MORE FYAH....THANKS.

[@thecancelling2870]

Why dont you write them some sweet cash. That's what they're out there for

[@thecancelling2870]

@@pcbacklash_3261 wasted money. They're taking you to the bank, bro. Just donate to Democrats if you care so much.

[@LittleSpiderWeb]

@@thecancelling2870 I Voted for Bernie in the Primaries but I really appreciate these folks and what they are doing. I don’t believe they are grifters looking for money as you suggest. Sure they need money to support their cause but they are doing good work with the donations. I have yet to see a better video of how to correctly do a mail in vote so that it counts for example. (On their youtube channel and elsewhere) I have yet to see a video of this matter at all from any Democratic campaigns. And there are other examples of the good work that they are doing.

[@geraniaceae4470]

@Cuck Baldson No. They are simply not blind.

[@Habitt5253]

Never forget that Rick Wilson is part of the problem.

[@tracymorgan5386]

To be fair he admitted that.

[@volcrazy89]

@@tracymorgan5386 And yet liberals are hellbent on rehabilitating him because he doesn't like Trump.

[@kevinjackson4457]

@@volcrazy89 at least he is attempting to change his views. Most who are in love with their hate will NEVER change!!

Rick Wilson is a geek little phony eeking out a living giving interviews to CNN and the MSM. The squirt hasn't been hired as a republican strategist forever, he's a backstabber.

[@julianmorales-silva160]

@ a backstabber for admitting his mistakes and changing his views? Sounds like, idk, a human?

[@emsleywyatt3400]

Even those Republicans who aren't racist themselves are racist comfortable.

[@JudgeDurham]

Or racist-adjacent

[@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim]

Sorry, they’re racist. My Dad is a good man, and considers himself a good man, but Fox News has turned him racist. The GOP has turned him racist. CORRECTION: not VERY BADLY RACIST!!!! He doesn’t HATE other people Just AFRAID of immigrants and thinks that someone is stoking minorities to “rebel” but he’s SCARED he doesn’t HATE other people

[@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim]

And this July, Rick Wilson’s wife tweeted a Confederate flag with “The South will rise again” and yet this toad HAS THE NERVE TO TALK ON THIS SHOW

[@doloreschansey9556]

@@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim he's an adult; he turned himself racist. Faux News doesn't help, but it's not responsible for his behavior.

[@andreroberts6795]

@@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim Wow I didn't know that. That's telling

[@SK22000]

Everyone I know who is republican is racist, I served in the military and served with people from all types of backgrounds, that’s why I am a democrat. Racism belongs in the 19th century not the 21st century

[@juliansearcie1758]

Racism belongs in the grave citizen.

[@80s_Boombox_Collector]

I wouldn't say every Republican is racist, but they are more likely to disbelieve in systemic racism. Maybe because they don't know what it means. It doesn't mean everyone is racist, it means that there's discrimination baked into certain systems and organizations. Often it's at the subconscious level. You could say the same thing about ageism too.

[@rickschrager]

Pretty much every white american has situational racial bias. It has been bred into us whether we know it or not.

[@sovietunion7643]

what's the saying? "not all republicans are racists, but all racists vote reublican" before trump i mean. nowadays you are a cultists and/or racist to vote for trump

[@SilverFang95]

@@80s_Boombox_Collector Well systematic racism doesn't exist and BLM is destroying black lives

[@TheMinishKid]

I equate Republicans with racism. I thought that was just how it was.

[@Blackgents]

You ain’t lying

[@Astrobucks2]

I equate New York liberals with racism of the worst kind. The soft bigotry of low expectations and the application of dangerous CRT concepts.

[@Blackgents]

@@Astrobucks2 Get Me Roger Stone

[@TheMinishKid]

@Scotty2Hotty 1 found the boomer

[@TheMinishKid]

@Scotty2Hotty 1 I love how you say leftwingers need a simple answer to every problem when your cult leader is telling people to inject Clorox to cure a virus.

[@Mike-01234]

I have been a Republican voter since I turned 19 years old and voted for George H Bush in November of 1988. For 33 years I voted GOP and I voted for Trump in 2016 but last 2 years Trump has opened my eyes to the party I supported. The party represented a selfish, uncaring, person. It was all about me what I have done in life was all about what I earned. Reality is I earned because I had parents who were white had good jobs and I had a leg up. Trump went way farther then most Republicans would but they do all those things behind closed doors where Trump does it in your face. I no longer support the GOP. Historically if you look back every crises was solved by Democrats, but Republican's got us into the mess. When the GOP says they want to deregulate that doesn't help working class America that helps wall street and bankers who use your money to gamble with 1% of their own money.

[@NAT-turners-Revenge]

I agree with your overall conclusion. I cant support either party

[@tdvols]

Democrats are a crisis!! You are a fool!!!

[@arh9068]

uh... no. You're very wrong. The democrat party is literally the party of slavery, racisism, the party that argued against all civil rights for people of color and women... They're the party that wrote in all the tax breaks for the rich, they're the party that keeps the national debt increasing and inflation right along with it. Democrats are marxist, facist and evil. Don't believe me? then look it up for yourself.

[@classicist17]

Cringe 😂 U never was a republican otherwise u wouldn't have written such an idiotic comment 💀

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

I didn't expect a Conservative minded voter to talk like that.

[@jamescaporale9367]

just remember one fact.......the South prior to 1964 was a reliably blue voting bloc., then the Civil Rights laws were signed in1964-65.......and the south now became a red voting bloc.......it would certainly appear that a segment of the voting population was reacting [ negatively ] to certain citizens attaining their rights...

[@Dcassimatis]

...all racism comes from the left...the BLUE...voting bloc...and it always has...and those RINOS like Rick

[@DVCJoe]

I have always attached the xenophobic tendencies to the most conservative elements of any society. The tools of politics or religion will be the base for keeping out the “other” or maintaining the “family dynamic”.

[@thecancelling2870]

@@DVCJoe or using their religion to embrace and help "the other" as has been a tradition of various religious orders in Christendom or preserve the family, which is the principle organizing unit of civilization, not the state.

[@DVCJoe]

@@thecancelling2870 no one is obligated to another faiths view of family. The same Christianity deemed it right to strip native Americans of generations of children to “re-educate”. The damage done to families and cultural heritage for the sake of the correct faith is immeasurable. A lot has been done in this nation using religion as a high horse to look down on others.

[@jeromewade4110]

@@Dcassimatis OH YEAH,SINCE WHEN?

[@xtscarfacem8255]

Yup, Giuliani threw his legacy or whatever to the garbage disposal when he decided to lie for trump!

[@misstunes1765]

@Mark Yaske Not a fan of DeBlasio At All, but I seriously doubt any equality respecting NY'er wants to go back to lying Guliani. Don't know where, outside your circle, you got that one from.

[@andrey9286]

This is great, this is truth. America, get behind this

[@MarcosElMalo2]

I’m so glad Rick is talking about this, but the overall racial problems have been more widespread for conservative minorities in the GOP. It’s not just the hardcore racists that have held the party back, even if they’ve done the most damage. If a new conservative party rises from the ashes of the GOP, it’s going to need true ethnic diversity, not tokenism.

[@Wegivesp]

True diversity

[@davidbecker4364]

There's tons of minority Republicans that actually help their communities unlike the Democrats like Gordon Lightfoot Beetlejuice.

[@silverpugstudios2962]

oh so you're just gonna ignore the obvious racism democrats have against white people? ok

[@robertoramirez19]

I’m sorry but that’s the most ridiculous thing I ever heard!! The Democrats are the real racists when their the ones obsessed with race and will accuse anyone who disagrees with them as racist sexist and homophobic!!

[@DeadBoy665]

Oh really and yet a bunch of races AKA the democrats have condoned violence against other races. Have they gone out of their way to condemn black violence against Asians in Frisco. Have they gone out of their way to speak out against immigrant lettuce immigrant latinos arriving in the US killing white people. If you think the Republican party's racist I'm black I've been a Republican since I was 18 and I live in California. The majority of my black family are republicans.

[@merlinstwin7373]

I'm glad Rick Wilson acknowledged this, but the southern strategy developed by Lee Atwater for Nixon's strategy is the direct antecedent of today's GOP's racism. And Reagan's "welfare queens" is at direct odds with his big words on racism. It's time this was dealt with honestly.

[@Great_Scott_]

The Southern Strategy actually started before Nixon, and it chipped away at the Democrats' "Solid South" after the 1948 Southern Democrat revolt when the GOP began to run openly segregationist candidates there.

[@80s_Boombox_Collector]

Southern Dems were mad at Truman and Johnson for promoting civil rights

[@karelglasner2673]

RICK WILSON IS A BOUGHT ABD PAID FOR MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX FRAUD WITH MANY DARK SKELTONS IN HIS CORRUPT CLOSET.

[@MaryJaneHancock]

Thank you for saying it!

[@byLizzDevine]

Is This Why He Picked The Republican Party when He decided To run For President ?

[@kusali11]

@Megatron EX1127 I like how Howard Stern put it. Trump would never associate socially with the people who support him.

[@kewltony]

@fenway33 www.snopes.com/fact-check/1998-trump-people-quote/ That quote has been debunked so many times that you only make yourself look foolish by repeating it.

[@gtaylor6937]

Uh, that would be yes.

[@eddieboggs8306]

@@kewltony He said he thought the people did better under the Democrats than Republicans. So was that fake news?

[@kewltony]

@@eddieboggs8306 click the link genius

[@SeriousPOV]

Rick Wilson, now that he is on the outs with the Republican Power Structure, wants and needs to reclaim it which now means, admitting racial animus which he knew full well was in the party at the time; prior to divisive advertisements. It is akin to Chris Christie who spent seven days in the ICU as COVID had him on the ropes; now admits that he is wrong with regard to being cavalier with regard to COVID. In both cases, it is not important until it affects you. That is part in parcel with the Republican party which often operates with lack of common decency when it comes to Americans who they can squeeze in to their power block... "One day they will come for you..."

[@ecclairmayo4153]

Spot on! This comment sums up perfectly the way they have operated for decades. If it doesn't effect me, then I don't care.

[@MB-ng9ci]

So truth Rick🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🇺🇸

[@arkhllraiser]

I have observed this one simple truth over the past 30 years: I have some friends who vote Republican who don't have any real racist tendencies...However, every person I kn ow who's quick with the racist joke or dog whistle comments and has racist tendencies (from the northeast to the South and Midwest), they ALL vote Republican. Every, Single. One of them. All the time. Hmmmmm.....

[@Wardemonxi]

Rudy Guiliani and his stop and frisk wasn't enough of a hint that he isn't excluded from that in a "racial sense"?

[@byLizzDevine]

Trump's political party affiliation has changed numerous times. He registered as a Republican in Manhattan in 1987, switched to the Reform Party in 1999, the Democratic Party in 2001, and back to the Republican Party in 2009.

[@mansamusa8410]

Let me get this straight trump ain't even a real republican

[@jag5798]

You know what is great - is that in America - you can change your opinion and its not wrong if you do.

[@hmmcinerney]

All of Trumps relationships and affiliations are transactional

[@itheuserfirst3186]

@Alex Martin Trump changed his alliances based on whatever current grifting opportunity presented itself. trump has no principles. He does whatever he thinks will benefit him. He's mocked military, and religious people in private. I doubt he even believes in God.

[@itheuserfirst3186]

@Alex Martin Bed bugs.

[@seanjenkins331]

Conservatives of conscience should stand for what's right, above politics

[@chriskelly6559]

Ain't gonna happen.

[@Arkstromater]

Like mike pence did when he stood his ground rather than continuing to go along with trumps insanity?

[@donaldcarpenter5328]

"conservatives" have NO conscience!!!

[@DonovanGlass]

We do. Hence voting for Donald Trump.

[@DonovanGlass]

@@Arkstromateryou mean, just not do anything? Wasn’t courage.

[@DancerGirl-24]

What do you have to say about the book, "It Was All A Lie?" Are you at least now, willing to accept - as a "conservative" - that healthcare for all is imperative?

[@lenzybluz4347]

Kudos Guys...thanx.

[@trillmoney3147]

Big reason right here why republicans are not my type 👍🏽 I just stay in my own lane

[@awesomekingakathe66bro36]

And what about it?

[@vbs4257]

Hey Rick, do you acknowledge the recently released recordings of Reagan spewing pretty racist garbage?

[@onomatopoeia162003]

Or Nixon with the homophobic crap. What was on TV back in the day.

[@jwbjpb1338]

He calls out the GOP for what it is - a racist bigoted party.

[@brandonjuno]

Not quite. He lionized Reagan while calling out racism in his party. So he's already undermined his own admission. They still cannot face who they are.

[@JK-gu3tl]

@@brandonjuno Reagan was pro-immigrant, how was he racist?

[@brandonjuno]

@@JK-gu3tl This isn't a serious question, is it? Can't be.

[@JK-gu3tl]

@@brandonjunoName me a potus that wasn't racist.

[@brandonjuno]

@@JK-gu3tl Excuse me? I'm guessing you did a little Googling and now realize your last question was asinine? And now you want me to absolve Reagan by talking about him comparatively?

[@danielbracken776]

The southern strategy is alive and well

[@jonjonboi3701]

The parties never switched

[@LeftWithRight]

Ahhh i love the smell of stupidity in the morning

[@terribelbliss9646]

There’s plenty of racial animosity in the northeast as well. It may not be the same as the south or Midwest but it’s there none the less.

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

I hear talk about civil war a decent amount but I don't think the regional differences are anywhere near enough to actually go to any kind of organized conflict...

[@youreverydaysaltyiowastate5602]

The Midwest? As an Iowan, white supremacists are the biggest minority out here. We hate everybody equally! 😁👍🏻

[@patveldon6843]

On the night of April 19, 1989, Trisha Meili was assaulted, raped, and sodomized in Manhattan's Central Park. On the night of the attack, five juvenile males-four African Americans and one of Hispanic descent-were apprehended in connection with a number of attacks in Central Park committed by around 30 teenage perpetrators. The prosecution ignored evidence suggesting there was a single perpetrator whose DNA did not match any of the suspects, instead using confessions that the suspects said were coerced and false.[54] They were convicted in 1990 by juries in two separate trials, receiving sentences ranging from 5 to 15 years. The attacks were highly publicized in the media.[55] On May 1, 1989, Trump called for the return of the death penalty by taking out a full-page advertisement in all four of the city's major newspapers. He said he wanted the "criminals of every age" who were accused of beating and raping a jogger in Central Park "to be afraid."[56] Trump told Larry King on CNN: "The problem with our society is the victim has absolutely no rights and the criminal has unbelievable rights" and, speaking of another case where a woman was raped and thrown out a window, "maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done."[57] In 2002, an imprisoned serial rapist confessed to the jogger's rape, which was confirmed by DNA evidence,[58] and the convictions of the five men were vacated. They sued New York City in 2003 for malicious prosecution, racial discrimination, and emotional distress. Lawyers for the five defendants said that Trump's advertisement had inflamed public opinion.[56] The city settled the case for $41 million in 2014. In June of that year, Trump called the settlement "a disgrace" and said that the group's guilt was still likely: "Settling doesn't mean innocence. [...] These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels."[59][60]

[@lohphat]

The Lincoln Project should instead be called "Buyers Remorse". THEY put this in motion and NOW they're sorry???

[@davidanderson-22]

I didn't hear good 'ol Rick take responsibility for promoting a racist party.

[@davidjohnson6903]

As a successful political strategist, one thoroughly understands all demographics, but more significantly he / she understands their target audience for maximum messaging effectiveness. These racist, misogynistic xenophobes are the monsters the GOP has wielded for their political benefit, but now refuse to go back in the box! YOU GUYS OWN THIS!!!

[@norankpost2]

Ronald Reagan talked about Cadillac welfare queens

[@sunnymoondog]

This is still downplaying the race issue big-time. Also, it's about much more than Trump. But I'm grateful for the Lincoln Project.

[@jag5798]

JFK was racist - voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 by Eisenhower. MLK marched against Washington aka JFK after giving him votes to win by 118k+, but after he got in office he ignored doing any new laws for Civil Rights.

[@lisacox3750]

You are right JFK was racist and so was LBJ as well. Neither of them liked MLK Jr. It was Robert Kennedy that had to talk his brother into a lot of things. He was a much more forward thinker than his brother. Robert Kennedy doesn’t get the credit he deserved.

[@ekow9158]

Rick Wilson made the famous Rev. Wright ad. Asking him about racism is like asking Charlie Chaplin about silent film.

[@Wegivesp]

Thanks for the reminder

[@mattlohr]

I don't remember who said it, but it smacks of truth: "Not all Republicans are racists. But all racists are Republicans."

[@jonjonboi3701]

Not true. It’s seems like it’s not all democrats are racist but all racists are democrats

[@nnmartin94]

Not all Republicans I know are racist, but all the racist people I know are Republican

[@joebarr725]

When Wilson was asked what his role was in getting his party to this point, he deflected without answering. Whenever a modern-day Republican invokes the name of Lincoln, beware!

[@m1nor1ty30]

It's sad to see Republican fall down like this, abraham formed the party was for equality and now it became the very thing he fight for.

[@aaronf8136]

Rick Wilson has a Confederate Flag cooler. Did he ever own up that?

[@chioptnstdr3448]

And water is wet

[@NorthMountainFairy]

It’s nice to see one of these guys be honest about this.

[@wheniwasyourage4418]

At least Republicans have anger on their side.

[@MsORenD]

Thanks Mr Wilson for admitting your role. I would like to see more ppl doing this about their past choices. It is a brave thing to do to own up to your mistakes.

[@donaldcarpenter5328]

Wilson is STILL a RACIST!!!!!

[@wheniwasyourage4418]

Anyone who's not constantly giving off Conservative vibes is labeled an enemy by the overzealous GOP.

[@ujwal4940]

Eventhough it's late, I'm happy that these people started to reflect and analyse on their party and the base. They acknowledged their mistakes and they wanted to build something better, that's something to appreciate on. So Irrespective of our political ideology we should respect these people for trying to bring the change.

[@kellidinit3725]

It has always been very prevalent in the Republican Party. They’ve always known that and pandered to it. I think that, among many other things, is why my Southern Baptist raised parents never ever voted Republican.

[@devin351981]

I can’t wait till South Park does a skit on these four guys an Al Gore an man bear pig

[@thecancelling2870]

Rick Wilson kinda looks like a pig actually. Steve Schmidt looks like a bear. I cant wait for the rabid resistance leftists to tear these war lovers to shreds once they served

[@CL-gq3no]

As a Republican strategist, he knows full well about the "Southern Strategy" that the Republican party implemented after the civil rights movement to court "disenfranchised white southerners" (i.e. racists). It is not an accident that the Republican party is full of bigots. It was a strategy put in action for decades to grow their base. The only accident is it was so successful that the far right bigot Republicans eventually outnumbered the moderate Republicans and took over the party.

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

Southern strategy never happened

[@nylabo]

I really, really appreciate his openness and candor, I really do but every person who worked to get these people elected, needs to take a really hard look at themselves and take full ownership of what they have wrought on our country. This is such a great start.

[@manuelnunez8802]

He mentions Ronnie Reagan like Ronnie wasn't caught making clearly racist comments with Nixon.

[@Mark_Chandler]

Trump has been using the southern strat since he came down the escalator. Will be interesting if this strat works in 2020 with the southern states.

[@headdragondavidaustinsimmo4025]

Im in gold beach Oregon bring it

[@ralphballon1539]

I love the levels of grifting this guy will go too lol

[@omcorc]

“Played footsie...” Perfectly put 👏.

[@zachcloutier3111]

I miss Barack Obama as president. He's been such an inspiration since I was 12 years old in middle school. I miss his reasonable, thoughtful and calming leadership!!! Biden-Harris 2020!!!

[@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo]

Honestly when Trump and Hilarly were the canidates it made me wish for a third term for Obama. Now I am more left than ever!

[@contraryMV]

Let's not forget Reagan's racist dog whistle reference to "welfare queens" and his Willie Horton ad. This stuff has been brewing on the backburner of Republican laboratories for decades.

[@OhWellWhatTheHell1]

"Let me get this right: we're expected to constantly apologize for slavery, racism, American Indians, and disco. Muslims? Nothing." Rick Wilson, Twitter, 2014

[@alexlawson4414]

Relegating the issue to the south and midwest broadly overlooks the fact that there has always been, and remains, a large swath of racist Republican people and policies endorsed by ALL regions of America.

[@tjwilson1591]

Rick Wilson, you are so intelligent, I love you!

[@yoboitim7624]

how about we call out the racists in the democratic party and blm

[@rawrmcsaurs6052]

i guess both sides are guilty... But at least one side if for law and order, while the other side actively supports "peaceful activists" and rioting.

[@yoboitim7624]

@@rawrmcsaurs6052 true there are bad folk in every group

[@mlrausher]

You’re asking a racist about racism. That’s rich. Google Rick Wilson Confederate cooler and see the results.

[@BryanHobbsMcCalister]

Reagan’s words spoke about racism; his actions were racist. He started his 1980 general election campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

Will Democrats ever confront racism in the Democratic party... That's the real question.

[@dertythegrower]

Sad truth and why millions (literally millions) are not voting Hillary or Biden.. they cant admit that truth, even far left news and fox fails to cover it, but they cherry pick the racist rarely seen white hillbilly

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

@S. H. America is on the Ballot.... So the Democrats are offering a 78 year old man who's been in Government for 50 years who party has been usurped Socialists, are you stating they represent America?

[@victorresp555]

the real questions will the republicans ever admit they’re racist ? Unfortunately some don’t even know they are.

[@victorresp555]

StalinTheMan0fSteel Your lies don’t scare me, but good try. BIDEN2020🔵🇺🇸🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🇺🇸🔵

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

@@victorresp555 LOL!!! Just like the blue tidal wave that Hillary rode in 2016! LOL

[@astheskylarksings]

2 minute clip? Nah... you need 10 seasons to cover this topic

[@taylorb7191]

Lmao this dude is the ultimate grifter, and he’s making a fortune.

[@YodaMan-420]

if he ends up making money while getting the message out that trump and a lot of republicans gotta go im fine with that.

[@taylorb7191]

@@YodaMan-420 They’re campaigning against even moderate Republicans like Susan Collins and Cory Gardner who have nothing to do with Trump. They’re no different than any Dem organization

[@YodaMan-420]

@@taylorb7191 susan collins is there right along with trump "hes learned his lesson" with impeachment so there was no reason to remove him right? and hes been showing he learned his lesson since then hasnt he?

[@taylorb7191]

@@YodaMan-420 It was inappropriate for Collins to say that, because Trump didn’t do anything wrong. But then again, she’s basically a left winger.

[@YodaMan-420]

@@taylorb7191 trump did nothing wrong? nice fantasy world you live in. just gonna block you now. troll.

[@kdmdlo]

Of course, Reagan kicked off his 1980 campaign in Philadelphia, MS ... the site where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. And his speech there was all about "states rights". This is unambiguously racist, they just wouldn't be so bold as to have called it that in 1980. Reagan would be pilloried today if he did that ... as well he should. So let's not make Reagan sound like a pillar in the civil rights movement; he was giving a not-so-subtle nod to the racists ... so should we be surprised that it's still with the GOP today? No. They're simply following his lead. Let's look at Reagan with a little honesty, shall we?

[@chrismathis4162]

I could have told him this 40 years ago. I am a liberal/moderate southerner who knows quite a few of these Republicans, even in my own family, who know nothing about free markets, liberty, and free trade, etc. They vote Republican simply on the basis of their fear and animosity of minorities, homosexuals, or anyone who is not a white Christian. It is as simple as that. He was blind not to see how the Republican party feeds into this animosity for the sole purpose of getting votes. Well now it has finally come full circle with Trump, who will destroy the Republican party for years and years to come. KARMA!

[@sp4263]

The Lincoln Project group holds a important lesson for both the Republican and Democrat parties: We should not pander to extremist viewpoints in the party, at the expense of core American and party values. God Bless America for the Lincoln Group. 👍👍

[@80s_Boombox_Collector]

I doubt the Lincoln Project would even exist if Sanders or Warren had won the ticket. They're happy with Biden because he's "wall street friendly"

[@deborahking4134]

I personally didn't like Reagan however he spoke clearly about racist points.

[@trevorrichardson5689]

Same guy who championed the Confederate flag lmao

[@littlepeep5940]

Truth is truth thank you for being American with guts to admit you were wrong we need more people like you

[@JohnTaylor-fh4et]

We didn't do some of these things, but we've ignored rectifying these major issues as an entire Nation.

[@douglasjohnson4382]

Well look who just woke up.

[@Miguel_El_Chileno]

The Rural and Working Class White/European-American People's Party

[@Illumirage]

ok racist

[@Potomacstud]

He nailed it

Republicans and Democrats are racist. Od racist and bigots disgusting

[@FriedrichHerschel]

Wasn't this "pandering to racists" the whole idea behind the southern strategy?

[@ELP1125]

Most every Republican is a conservative, and conservatives don’t think racism is a huge deal. In some sense, I agree that racism isn’t as widespread as it was in the past. BUT they seem to treat it as “not a big deal”. So when actual racist things happen, they are always last to act to fight against it.

[@awesomekingakathe66bro36]

Racism for the most part isn’t a huge deal today. On an individual level it’s still there and affects many people but systemically, not the case.

[@Paula-ps1vi]

@@awesomekingakathe66bro36 😂 for who? Speak for yourself.😏

[@awesomekingakathe66bro36]

@@Paula-ps1vi for American citizens.

[@dommiddleton68]

WE NEED BETTER LEADERSHIP FOR AMERICA.

[@tampazeke4587]

Can't help but notice how he completely double talked and side stepped the question about his part in creating this racist cesspit of a party. He was up to his eyeballs in it!

[@huaduncan899]

Wow, Great interview

[@ioanasingureanu]

Nice earned media coverage 👌 Go, Rick!

[@JBanks333]

We gotta l👀k @ it h🤨nestly, he said.

[@balshb4064]

This dude is the villain from Ironman 1

[@ravipeiris4388]

I respect the republican party for Rick making this confession......but not by that much.

[@gtaylor6937]

I have loved Rick Wilson's work with the Lincoln Project, and his ribald commentary in coming out against Trump. And his humor in general - it's so fun. But he has to own in a deeper, more explanatory way, how he promoted for decades a party we all knew was populated by serious racists and misogynists. He may be waking up now to just how significant a part of his party this group was, but it was always there and he knew it. But I still love this guy and the work he's doing now.

[@billymimnaugh3998]

He’s a confederate flag loving racist as is his wife

[@brennanhart8145]

Have always been impressed by the quality of interviews 60 minutes produce. No wonder Trump got backed into a corner and fled from his own 60 minutes interview today.

[@arunfrancis7565]

Obma president period time he can't help anything black community . But trump Funding black community collage . biden 1994 crime bill sapport , Rebpulican party not one person . Rebupulican party stop slavary , Rebpulican party give equall right... all citizen 1973