Why does he refuse to condemn them?

[hollodero]

(10-05-2020, 09:22 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Hollo, maybe I can be of some small assistance here.  I don't think it would be overstating things by claiming that most of the crowd at a Trump rally will be Caucasian.  That being the case I don't think the fact that Minnesota is still a largely white state (83, not 94%) is what prompted Trump to make the statement he did.  He's not exactly a deep thinker.  I don't know what's in the man's heart and he certainly doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt in a lot of ways, but I don't think it's crazy to think that Trump's statement had nothing to do with Minnesota being largely white and of those whites, largely of Scandinavian origin.

Me personally, I feel that talking about horserace theories and good genes has a distinct racial flavor. I didn't say it was crazy to not think that. It also is not crazy to see it the way I see it. One argument of course being the piling up of Trump comments that are flavored in a similar manner.
This also is not about 83% or 94% - any "victory" on that point imho is a quite insignificant one. Minnesota still is perceived as a white state, and I perceive a Trump audience in Minnesota to be visibly white, and I assume that these were significant premises that made Trump go there. But OK, I don't claim to know the undisputable one truth about Trump's beliefs, though I know where my money's at. But disagreement is fine. Accusing me of twisting words, however, is not. I don't need to twist any of Trump's words to find them awful.