Why does he refuse to condemn them?

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(10-13-2020, 03:31 PM)PhilHos Wrote: The only mental gymnastics is someone taking a comment where Trump is telling a crowd they look good and taking that to mean that white people have superior genes.

First of all he did not tell them they looked good.  he told them they had superior genes.  he even talked about the "racehorse theory" to hammer the point home.

So at that point the only question is who he thinks has superior genes.

Your claim that he is talking about all people from Minnesota is ridiculous for multiple reasons.

1.  There is no such thing as a "Minnesota gene" that all people from Minnesota have that people in other states don't have.
2.  In the very same speech he had been talking shit about the black immigrants from Somalia and how bad they are.  So even though they live in Minnesota he obviously does not think they have superior genes.

My claim that he is talking about white people makes perfect sense because.

1.  The crowd he is talking to appears to be at least 99% white.
2.  Trump includes himself in the good gene pool and he is not from Minnesota.
3.  The "racehorse theory" is a known dog whistle term used by white supremacists.
4.  The crowd booed when he talked about the black immigrants who live in Minnesota.

Basically to accept your position you have to play "make believe" that there is  gene that does not exist and ignore everything else Trump said in the same exact speech to the same exact crowd.  And those actions are perfect examples of what I call "mental gymnastics"