MSNBC political analyst Cornell Belcher suggests that Republicans “camouflage” their hate for brown people.
During MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Belcher shared his opinion about the recent Republican presidential debate, saying that the candidates’ talk on war, the border, and crime is “camouflage for hate” of brown people.
“This idea of being tough on crime or being tough on immigration, being tough on terrorism. There’s a fine line between being tough and camouflage for hate. I think they cross that line at the debate when you look at the language about shooting people dead and bombing and wiping people off. That’s not about being tough on terrorism. That is crossing the line and becomes a camouflage for hate,” he said.
“I hate to say it, but you know American history very well. There is a landing space for hate in this country, and hate does mobilize people in this country. We have seen it time and again. As a matter of fact, it’s the whole predicate of Donald Trump’s presidency is that hate.”
“What I saw on display there is crossing the line. It is not about being tough. It is about hate, camouflage that’s being tough, and it’s hate against, surprise, surprise, a bunch of brown people. So I’m not surprised by that at all,” the liberal news anchor continued.
Belcher went on to say that Black voters were not going to select a Republican president to replace the Democratic one. He insisted that they would probably just skip the 2024 election altogether. According to recent polling data, however, some 22 percent of Black voters have indicated that they would vote for former President Donald Trump in 2024.
Despite Belcher’s bizarre remarks, 60 percent of the participants in the GOP’s third presidential debate were actually non-white. The debates have also been hosted by mainly liberal mainstream news outlets such as NBC, which candidate Vivek Ramaswamy took issue with recently.
“We’ve become a party of losers at the end of the day. Is it cancer? The Republican establishment, let’s speak the truth,” Ramaswamy said at the time. “I mean, since Ronna McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017, we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022. No red wave ever came. We got trounced last night in 2023. And I think that we have to have accountability in our party for that matter.”
