It has been well documented that the left’s favorite accusation to throw at the right is that all Republicans are racists, and use secret “dog whistles” to communicate that message. But now that the liberal media seems to be in the early stages of panic over Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning, CNN’s Brian Stelter posed the question of, has the media called the right racist enough, during his show Reliable Sources on Sunday.
For a long time the media has accused Republican policies of having racial undertones, yet while analyzing the media’s explanation for Trump’s rise, “economic anxiety,” Stelter asks the viewers, “But are the talking heads missing something, when they pin it all on the economy? What about racial anxiety as a factor?” Stelter quoted an argument from the leftist website Slate:
Jamelle Bouie has noted, “Among voters, higher levels of racial resentment have been shown to be associated with greater support for Trump.” Jamelle Bouie’s view is that white America backlash to a black president is something that helped to spawn Trump.
And with that, Stelter connected Trump slogan, which was Ronald Reagan’s 1980 slogan, with racist dog whistles. “Now he and others have asserted that “make America great again,” that slogan we see on those signs is really about restoring whites to a preferred position in an increasingly multicultural America,” he hypothesized.