How will that play in the general?

Also-ran Beto sounding like the racial radicals among the Dems, not just the candidates but the party as a whole.

O'Rourke tells immigrants 'this country was founded on white supremacy'

Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) this week told a group of immigrants and refugees living in Nashville, Tenn., that the U.S. was founded on the concepts of white supremacy and slavery.

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"I know this from my home state, Texas, places that formed the Confederacy, that this country was founded on white supremacy," he said, according to the Tennessean.

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He made the remarks in response to a question about how he would tackle white supremacy if elected president.

To which the best answer would have been that white supremacy in America is a long gone thing of the past, and what people are really complaining of who say otherwise is the fact that the majority of Americans are white.

And to that complaint the best answer, if not "pardon us for living", would have been "fuck you."

I suppose we could quibble a bit about the nuance of "founded on", but those were certainly features of the country at its founding.

So, no Pinocchios for that one.

But this is just inflammatory bullshit.

Or maybe a concession to the lying racism of the person who asked the question.

"And every single institution and structure that we have in this country still reflects the legacy of slavery and segregation and Jim Crow and suppression, even in our democracy."

Does his saying that, and to a batch of new immigrants and refugees, no less, show he hates our country?

Actually, I'm not sure what the hell it shows, though in his case I rather doubt it's that.

A lot of this year's Democrats talk like that, however, and maybe that is what it shows when they talk like that.

And, anyway, whose votes are they fishing for, with that kind of talk?

Is this that Tucker Carlson apparently said quite unfair?

All of it, or just parts of it?

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): 

The Democratic candidates for president are on the road this week telling voters that the United States is an awful country. 

"America's institutions are built on white supremacy," squeaked Beto O'Rourke at an event yesterday. 

Of all the lies these people tell, and there are many, this is the most absurd.
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Ilhan Omar has an awful lot to be grateful for, but she isn't grateful, not at all. 

After everything America has done for Omar and for her family, she hates this country more than ever.

In a recent piece in The Washington Post, the reporter put it this way, quote, 

"In Omar's version, America isn't the bighearted country that saved her from a brutal war and a bleak refugee camp. 

"It wasn't a meritocracy that helped her attend college or vaulted her into congress. 

"Instead, it was the country that had failed to live up to its founding ideals, a place that has disappointed her and so many immigrants, refugees, and minorities like her," end quote. 

If anything, that's an understatement.

Omar isn't disappointed in America, she's enraged by it. 

Virtually every public statement she makes accuses Americans of bigotry and racism. 

This is an immoral country, she says. 

She has undisguised contempt for the United States and for its people.

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Ilhan Omar is living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country. 

A system designed to strengthen America is instead undermining it. 

Some of the very people we try hardest to help have come to hate us passionately.