Now that a Democrat has won an Alabama Senate seat for the first time since 1992, South Dakota U.S. House candidate Shantel Krebs might want to rethink her embrace of toxic Trumpism.
Hours before Doug Jones’s narrow apparent victory over the epitome of fascism, fake Christian faith, and poor horsemanship, Krebs sent out the following fundraising e-mail touting Trumpist vote suppressor Kris Kobach’s endorsement:
I’ve already detailed Kobach’s dangerous loathing of voting rights and immigrants. Notice his sidelong nod here to his own baseless accusations of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election [in yellow], claiming that “you and I saw firsthand” something that didn’t happen.
But notice here Kobach’s heavy focus on illegal immigration as a terrorist threat. Kobach’s pitch is politically off-key: his rather generic national-level ploy has little relevance in South Dakota, since no immigrants, documented or otherwise, have committed any acts of terrorism in South Dakota.
Kobach’s immigration remarks on Krebs’s behalf [marked in pink] also fail factually: per standard Trumpist/Goebbelsian procedure, Kobach mashes together false assertions and manufactured threats to scare voters into picking Krebs. The border wall won’t work; it wouldn’t have intercepted any of the 9/11 bombers, the Boston Marathon crock-potters, or this year’s two New York terrorists. Kobach ignores the illegal actions taken under the poorly executed travel ban. Kobach follows the Jeff Sessions deception of unjustifiably lumping innocent, young, patriotic DACA recipients in with criminals and terrorists, despite the fact that individuals busted for serious crimes can’t get DACA status and repealing DACA poses a threat to our national security that far outweighs remarkably small risk of terrorism posed by DACA recipients and undocumented immigrants in general.
It’s just gravy that Kobach throws in a subsidiary pitch for the Chamber of Commerce crowd [in green], saying Krebs “also agrees with President Trump and his agenda to run government like a business….” Trump is running government like one of his businesses, piling up debt until he goes bankrupt. (Oh yeah, and the Trump Tax will probably increase our trade deficit, too!)
The bad business of Trump’s agenda was on trial in Alabama yesterday. Roy Moore’s campaign said so. And Alabama voters found that agenda not in their interest. Trumpism is turning toxic for Republicans; Shantel Krebs should turn away from Kobach’s Trumpism and get back to talking about facts and figures that really matter to South Dakotans.
With Jones’ win in Big Red ‘Bama, it’s assured that Heidelberger can win and win big, in South Dakota. ~ “Who stole the flag really, Pat?”
Wasn’t it barely a year ago Alabama’s state finances were in such dire straits that the state closed all the drivers licensing sites in heavily minority areas to save money?
And wasn’t that about the time the lege decided to force all voters to have photo ids they could get at said closed stations?
But, of course, there was nothing racist about closing stations in every heavily minority district but not a single white district.
Hopefully Krebs will take note of the women voters that helped secure Doug Jones victory. Black women voters turned out in droves to vote against Roy Moore, but the more significant votes may have come from republican white women that rejected Roy Moore.
As we move closer to the Nov. 06, 2018 election and the recent calls for an investigation of Trump for sexual assaults, Krebs should be paying closer to attention of just how toxic Trump is.
Over 100 members of congress have now called on Trump to resign for basically the same charges Franken faced and was forced to resign.
It is shocking that Krebs would hitch her star to an admitted sexual abuser that may soon be under investigation for his deviant behavior against women.
If Democrats can flip commie red Alabama they can flip South Dakota.
Flag-thievin’! Thanks for reminding me, Porter! Maybe I should run for Shantel’s job.
Dusty’s May elevator pitch focuses on his SD experience and doesn’t mention Trump.
His Dec. 11 video talks about 2nd Amendment (loves it), Social Security (people living longer, reasonable to talk about changing retirement age for folks younger than 50—i.e., a minority of likely voters) and doesn’t mention Trump.
His Nov. 30 video focuses on accessibility and doesn’t mention Trump.
In a Nov. 15 FB post, Dusty named two things he likes about the GOP tax plan and two things he doesn’t like. One dislike, eliminating the adoption tax credit, was fixed by Noem. The other, increased deficit, remains, and Dusty is dubious: “I believe cutting taxes will spur economic growth, but the $1.5 trillion hole the tax bill creates seems too large to be filled by new growth.” Again, no mention of Trump.
Trump’s outgoing National Counterterrorism Center Director, Nick Rasmussen, said today that Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric and policies, such as the travel, make their “work harder” because it intensifies unneeded speculation and suspicion.
International and Domestic terrorism need to be taken seriously with little need for exaggeration.
Roger, that’s a really important point. A lot of the Trump voters Krebs is trying to attract praise Trump for saying what’s on his mind, for speaking in what strikes them as a brave, straightforward fashion. Now if what Trump says were well-informed and well-thought-out, then sure, saying such things bravely and straightforwardly would have some merits. Unfortunately, Trump’s words spring not from information or thought but from ego, impulse, and hate. Those words thus create the kind of difficulty Rasmussen mentions.
Words matter. Words matter even more when they come from the White House. The White House-inspired words that Krebs is using to win votes should matter to patriotic, conscientious South Dakotans.
Cory,
You maybe interested in “that paper” article involving Neal Tapio’s challenge to Krebs on a Muslim Registry.
I tried to email it to you or share here, but couldn’t make the links work.
Neal Tapio is openly calling for a “human registry” of Muslims. As someone noted, go to an internment camp from WWII and see what opportunities lists provided for human imprisonment!! What scars still remain for the people and families locked up for what they were and no other reason. Go to Auschwitz. Dachau. Go to a Russian Gulag. Neal Tapio is acting in a sick and perverted way. This endorsement by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (a public Muslim human right violator) for Shantel Krebs and Tapio’s demand that she form a Muslim Registry aka Scarlet Letter is a stain on the good people of South Dakota’s reputation!!
Very interesting, Roger. Krebs is inviting herself a political war that I can only hope she doesn’t want to fight. When I read Tapio’s challenge, I initially thought I was reading satire, or maybe something from Tim Bjorkman. How could any candidate support something as vile as what Porter describes? But Tapio is serious, and Krebs has taken his bait/not-bait, telling Dana Ferguson that she supports a registry: “It’s not based on religion, it’s based on migrants that are believed to pose a threat.”
Dusty Johnson he supports the travel ban but opposes the registry. Fascist, fascist, half-fascist?
South Dakota Republicans get to choose between descending levels of fascism? “God bless us, everyone.”
Roger, ” . . . but the more significant votes may have come from republican white women that rejected Roy Moore.”
I think we saw different polling information. While 98% of black women voted for Jones, 63% of white women voted for Moore. 63% is not a “rejection.” White women in Alabama “stood by their man.” In the presidential election, nationally more women voted for Trump than Clinton, even though 83% of black women supported Clinton. There is something about the Trump and Moore message that resonates with white women. Assuming that message would be ignored because of sexual misconduct allegations of the candidate turned out not to be true for either Trump or Moore among white women.