- 'This is a literal true factual description,' says Wesley Lowery
"Former president Donald Trump and the Republican Party are driven by "the exact same things that drove the [Ku Klux] Klan movement of the 1920s," according to Wesley Lowery, the former Washington Post reporter best known for winning the Pulitzer Prize...
"We have one political party that traffics in the same talking points as white supremacists, be it on immigration, be it on Muslims, be it on any number of issues, where the mainstream political rhetoric could be written by avowed racists," Lowery said Jan. 24 during a National Press Club panel on the journalistic challenges of covering extremism.
"We have one political party that traffics in the same talking points as white supremacists, be it on immigration, be it on Muslims, be it on any number of issues, where the mainstream political rhetoric could be written by avowed racists," Lowery said Jan. 24 during a National Press Club panel on the journalistic challenges of covering extremism.
- Journalists need to be brave enough, he argued, to describe the Republican Party as a white supremacist movement without fear of being called "not objective" by critics who are also white supremacists...
"I'll be honest, I don't think very much about the mantle of neutrality," he said...
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