Trump's Path to White Supremacy Is Now Complete

We're going down the rabbit hole once again.

The GOP frontrunner and presumptive nominee for the GOP nomination, Donald Trump, once again was caught quote-tweeting a white supremacist. This isn't a one-off instance.

And quoting a guy who follows the US Fascist party. This is part of Trump's twitter strategy @howiewolf pic.twitter.com/wUVTGeZNi0

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 28, 2016

He keeps doing it.

Every few days he finds some white supremacist or fascist account to quote-tweet.

62% of the People Donald Trump RTed This Week Follow Multiple White Supremacist Accounts https://t.co/crOGRAhMci pic.twitter.com/QrIEVkxzoF

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 28, 2016

The source for @realDonaldTrump's tweet? An actual neo-Nazi. That's whose dangerous racist lies he wants to amplify: https://t.co/ubTBwIUOiI

— Anil Dash (@anildash) November 23, 2015

For any other candidate in any other year, this would have terminated their campaign. This isn't like any other election year, and Donald Trump isn't like any other candidate.

Those tweets are actually garnering little in the way of opposition from within the GOP. And now, he's garnered support of noted racist/white supremacist and former Grand Dragon of the KKK David Duke and yet he keeps playing games.

Donald Trump wouldn't disavow David Duke's support for his presidential bid, saying Sunday that he knows nothing about the white supremacist leader.

"Just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke, OK?" Trump told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."

"I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists," he said. "So I don't know. I don't know -- did he endorse me, or what's going on? Because I know nothing about David Duke; I know nothing about white supremacists."

You simply cannot make this stuff up.

Trump claims to have a perfect memory, and can't recall that he went after Duke in 2000.

Donald Trump knew David Duke was a klansman in 2000, yet denies knowledge of him now. https://t.co/P3eMUj3lWP pic.twitter.com/kJQUKqMxim

— Justin Green (@JGreenDC) February 28, 2016

Now, Trump refuses to disavow Duke.

It's all part of a pattern that has long been undeniable for months. Trump is actively soliciting, and pandering to, white supremacists and racists that form a significant portion of the GOP base. It's part of the reason that the GOP isn't pushing back against the racist and white supremacist and fascist statements Trump has made over the past few months. They're increasingly worried that they'll lose critical votes.

All of Trump's statements and actions, and the counter-actions by the GOP are symptomatic of the rot in the GOP itself. They've spent years cultivating anger, fear, and hatred among the GOP base. Now, they've found the guy that epitomizes all that in Trump.

The Olympics Are Barely Underway and Athletes Are Getting Banned

The Olympics are barely underway (soccer started today) and there's already a bunch of athletes disqualified for failing drug tests, but one athlete was booted because of racist twitter comments. A Greek triple-jumper was booted for the comments today.

With a 140 character message, triple jumper Voula Papachristou leaped her way out of the London Olympics and into an international spotlight she did not anticipate.

The Hellenic Olympic Committee expelled Papachristou from the team after the 23-year-old Greek mocked African immigrants on her Twitter account. The committee said that Papachristou was "placed outside the Olympic team for statements contrary to the values and ideas of the Olympic Movement."

While gearing up for her first Olympic games on Sunday, Papachristou commented on the reported influx of West Nile mosquitos in Athens. She tweeted in Greek, "With so many Africans in Greece, the West Nile mosquitoes will be getting home food!!!" Her tweet provoked a bevy of ill responses, and many Greeks called for her dismissal from the Olympic team.

Papachristou also retweeted messages from the extreme right Golden Dawn party, which has criticized Greek's prime minister and his stance on immigration.

Racist is racist. It's part and parcel of what the Golden Dawn thinks of immigration and immigrants. It's xenophobia at its most exposed.

West Nile is prevalent around much of the world, including the NYC metro area. We have regular spraying of insecticides throughout the region to limit the spread of mosquito populations in the area and doctors are better informed as to the symptoms to help identify those who have become infected. That's limited the mortality rate here, but it's got nothing to do with immigrants. It is prevalent among migratory birds, which are a spreading vector, which is why it's been found around much of the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.