IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHO DAVID DUKE IS, I'M SURE EVERYBODY HERE
DOES, HE WAS THE FORMER KKK GUY, HE DID HOLD A CONGRESSIONAL
OFFICE FOR ONE TERM, BUT HE NOW WANTS TO RUN AGAIN.
HE WANTS TO
RUN FOR THE U.S. SENATE IN LOUISIANA.
YOU WOULD SAY HE IS
DONE, DAVID DUKE IS WILDLY REGARDED AS AN OPEN RACIST,
ANTI-SEMITE, YET HE WANTS TO MAKE A SERIOUS -- BY THE WAY HE
IS A HOLOCAUST DENIER, THROW THAT IN FOR GOOD MEASURE -- HE
WANTS TO MAKE A SERIOUS RUN FOR THE SENATE IN LOUISIANA.
AND WE
HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF DAVID DUKE ON TAPE TO REMIND EVERYONE
OF THE MAGIC OF DAVID DUKE.
>>I BELIEVE IN EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL, AND RESPECT FOR ALL
AMERICANS.
HOWEVER, WHAT MAKE ME DIFFERENT IS I ALSO DEMAND
RESPECT FOR THE RIGHTS AND THE HERITAGE OF EUROPEAN AMERICANS.
I PASSED THE ONLY BILL IN AMERICA FORBIDDING AFFIRMATIVE
ACTION PROGRAMS THAT RACIALLY DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THE BEST
QUALIFIED.
THOUSANDS OF SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS STAND UP FOR
AFRICAN-AMERICANS, MEXICAN-AMERICANS, JEWISH
AMERICANS, ETC.
THE FACT IS THAT EUROPEAN AMERICANS NEED AT LEAST
ONE MAN IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE, ONE MAN IN THE CONGRESS,
WHO WILL DEFEND THEIR RIGHTS AND HERITAGE.
WE MUST STOP THE
MASSIVE IMMIGRATION, AND HAVE A CLEANSING OF THE PEOPLE
WHOSE FOREFATHERS CREATED AMERICA.
>>EUROPEAN AMERICANS HAVE THE WHOLE SETUP DEFENDING THEM, THE
IDEA THAT THEY NEED ONE MAN IS CRAZY.
THAT SHOULD SEEM OBVIOUS.
THAT SOMEHOW THAT YOU COULD FLIP IT AND SUGGEST THAT THEY ARE THE
MINORITY, THAT THE WHITE MAJORITY, FOR WHOM THE WHOLE
CULTURE IS RIGGED, SOMEHOW NEEDS AN ADVOCATE, IT IS MORE PABLUM
AND RHETORIC AND HATE SPEECH FROM DAVID DUKE.
HE SUGGESTED
THAT THE JEWS CONTROL EVERYTHING, HE IS A REAL JEW
SUPREMACIST CONSPIRACY GUY.
HE IS KKK TRIED-AND-TRUE.
BUT HE IS
CERTAINLY NOT CASTING A BROAD TENT, IT IS A BIG WHITE
TENT THAT SITS RIGHT OVER THIS GUY, AND UNFORTUNATELY I
THINK YOU WILL FIND FOLLOWERS.
>> THEY'VE OFTEN HAD -- WHITE SUPREMACISTS HAVE PREVIOUSLY HAD
CANDIDATES THEY HAVE WANT TO PUT FORWARD FOR PRESIDENT, BUT THEIR
PREFERRED CANDIDATE, OR THE NORMAL CANDIDATE -- THEY CEASED
TO ADVOCATE FOR HIM AND SUPPORT HIM BECAUSE THEY SAW A MUCH
BETTER PATH WITH DONALD TRUMP, THEY SAW MUCH BETTER PATH OF
SUCCESS, AND HE WAS ECHOING ENOUGH OF THEIR SENTIMENTS.
SO
THIS -- DONALD TRUMP HAS EMBOLDENED DAVID DUKE TO TAKE
THIS NEXT STEP, AND AS I SAID, LOOKING AT THIS AND LOOKING AT
WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT, AND THIS WHOLE IDEA OF AMERICA FIRST
AND LAW AND ORDER, WHICH IS THIS VERY SINISTER ECHOING OF THE
NIXON SENTIMENT THAT WAS AT THAT TIME IN 1968, WHAT WE'VE JUST
BEEN ALLUDING TO, IT IS REALLY A DOG WHISTLE TO BLACK PEOPLE
BEING SCARY AND WE NEED TO LOCK THEM UP.
THIS IS WHY WE ARE
WHERE WE ARE NOW, BECAUSE OF THE MASS INCARCERATION, THE
DISPROPORTIONATE MASS INCARCERATION OF AFGHAN
AMERICANS IN THIS COUNTRY.
LAW AND ORDER IS NOT WHAT IS
REQUIRED, AND CERTAINLY NOT THE TYPE OF LAW AND ORDER THAT
DONALD TRUMP IS ADVOCATING, AND CERTAINLY NOT THE VIEWS THAT
DAVID DUKE IS ESPOUSING.
WHEN I SAW HE WOULD BE RUNNING, AND THE
ONE SCINTILLA OF RELIEF I GOT WAS THAT I SAW THAT THE CHAIRMAN
OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF LOUISIANA CONDEMNED HIS
APPLICATION AND CONDEMNED HIM STANDING, THAT GAVE ME SOME
PAUSE FOR COMFORT, BUT IT WAS SMALL AND SCANT COMFORT AT BEST
BECAUSE THIS IS SO TROUBLING, MARK.
I CANNOT OVERSTATE HOW
PROFOUNDLY WORRIED I AM BY WHERE THIS COUNTRY IS GOING, AND THE
FEAR-BASED NATURE ON WHICH IT IS BASED.
IT IS FINE TO HAVE VAST
DIFFERENCES, CALL PEOPLE NAMES, I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT.
BUT
WHEN IT GETS INTO THIS DANGEROUS TERRITORY AND YOU SEE -- REMIND
OURSELVES, LOUISIANA IS WHERE AN INNOCENT BLACK MAN WAS SHOT AND
KILLED WHEN HE WAS PULLED OVER BY POLICE AND THEN THREE POLICE
OFFICERS WERE SHOT AND KILLED BY A SNIPER WHO WAS PISSED OFF
ABOUT IT, AND DAVID DUKE IS STANDING IN THAT STATE?
>>THE BLOOD IS NOT EVEN DRY FROM THOSE INCIDENTS, AND I
THINK YOU ARE VERY RIGHT TO POINT OUT THAT THIS TRUMP
PRESIDENTIAL RUN HAS KICKED THE DOOR OPEN FOR A LOT OF GUYS LIKE
DUKE TO GET IN AS WELL.
AND THEY ARE NOT EVEN THAT CLEVER, LOOK
AT DAVID DUKE, HE IS NAKEDLY A RACIST, UNAPOLOGETIC, AND I
GUESS HE CODES SOME OF IT IN EUROPEAN PEOPLE NEED AN ADVOCATE
AS WELL, BUT THE TRUTH IS HE IS WELL-KNOWN, AND AS ELLIOTT HAS
SAID HE HAS BEEN REPUDIATED BY PARTY LEADERS IN LOUISIANA, BUT
THE NEXT GENERATION OF DAVID DUKES WILL LIKELY BE A LITTLE
MORE CLEVER.
AND DONALD TRUMP, AS CLUNKY AS WE THINK HE IS,
SOMEHOW HAS APPEALED TO AMERICANS IN SUFFICIENT
QUANTITIES TO BUOY HIM TO A NOMINATION.
SO AS YOU SAY, THIS
CODED SPEECH, OR EVEN LESS THAN CODED SPEECH, SEEMS TO WORK.
>>IT IS THIS CALL TO BE INTROVERTED, AND RESPECTIVE, FOR
ISOLATIONISM, TO PUT AMERICA FIRST, IT IS ALL PART OF THIS
INSIDIOUS STRATEGY THAT LEADS TO A VERY DARK PLACE.
>>YOU MAY BE OUT THERE GOING, AMERICA SHOULD BE FIRST.
WE GET
IT, WE ARE NOT READY TO TURN TAIL AND RUN ON AMERICA.
BUT
THERE HAS TO BE SOME SENSE OF NUANCE ABOUT IT ALL.
THE WORLD
IS SORT OF COMPLICATED, I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY IS HIP TO THAT
BUT IT IS MOSTLY GRAY.
SO THESE BLACK-AND-WHITE SOLUTIONS, AND
BY THE WAY THEY ARE NOT EVEN ANY SPECIFIC SOLUTIONS, AS WE'VE
SAID, JUST DON'T REALLY APPLY.
>>THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO MENTION, IT ALSO DOES APPLY TO
DAVID DUKE, IS THE NONCHALANCE, PARTICULARLY WITH THIS LORI,
THIS DELEGATE, IT'S THE NONCHALANCE WITH WHICH WITH SHE
SAYS I JUST WANT TO BE PROUD ABOUT BEING WHITE, IT IS OKAY TO
HAVE BLACK PRIDE, WHY CAN'T I HAVE WHITE PRIDE?
THAT IS THE
SAME MESSAGE DAVID DUKE IS PROPAGATING.
AND IT COMES BACK
TO THAT POINT FOR A VERY GOOD REASON, IT IS THAT NONCHALANCE,
DARE I SAY IT IS UNSOPHISTICATED BUT WE CAN'T
DISMISS IT JUST BECAUSE IT IS UNSOPHISTICATED, BUT WE
HAVE TO UNPACK IT AND DIFFUSE IT BECAUSE IF WE JUST SAY THEY
ARE A BUNCH OF IDIOTS, IT PERSISTS.
>>THEY GET SUFFICIENT TRACTION THAT THEY WIN ELECTIONS, I
THINK THAT IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.