Keeping it real
by digby
Why not just be up front?
An independent candidate running for Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District seat is under fire for a campaign billboard he posted with the slogan “Make America White Again,” local TV station WRCB reported Wednesday.
Rick Tyler confirmed to the station that he put up the billboard, which also lists the address for his campaign website. Tyler told WRCB that he does not hate people of color, but does believe America “should go back to the 1960s.”
“(The) Leave it to Beaver time when there were no break-ins; no violent crime; no mass immigration,” he told the news station.
Tyler also posted a billboard for his campaign that features part of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech superimposed on a drawing of the White House with Confederate flags around it, according to WRCB.
This is Trump politics. He’s proven it works. Just be as outrageously retrograde as you like, the news will cover you and at least some people will probably vote for you. It’s a winning strategy in 2016.
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