Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave — for the first time in his life — at a Republican convention with the tagline, “Unity drives victory.”

That slogan, touted by the governor on press releases, placards, lanyards and even the elephant he procured to march through the convention hall, became a rallying cry for the state’s leaders and party nominees heading into November. If fractured, they warned, the party could lose the state to Democrats and their U.S. Senate nominee, Austin state Rep. James Talarico.

But in spite of that warning, members were willing to lose the support of Muslim conservatives.

Hussein attended a panel from the Judeo-Christian Caucus moderated by Dr. Rick Scarborough, a former Southern Baptist pastor and the president of Recover America, an organization to engage ministers and pastors in politics.

Speakers told the audience that immigrants who don’t believe in Judeo-Christian values will erode those values and create problems for America. Scarborough accused Muslims of lying to win political power.

“You’re going to find Muslims that aren’t being antagonistic or mean, at least not publicly. But I’ll guarantee, if they get power, they’ll cut your head off as believers of Christ,” he said.

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    first party cleansing… more will follow: blacks, asians anyone looking different and once that has been dealt with anyone who deviates one iota from party line… where did we see that? Oh right Nazi, USSR, China… funny thing their biggest scare is “communism” yet they follow the same playbook

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    Did he just sleep through years of, “Barack HUSSEIN Obama”? The fuck, bro, they put a stank on your name like that one canned fish that should be opened underwater.

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    Halabi, a teacher, declined to say how she would vote in November, but said that she is a Republican and always votes.

    They’re still voting. Are you?

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        Every time I hear the term “Log Cabin Republicans” or “Blacks for Trump” or “Hispanics for Trump” or about these Muslims going to GOP things, or about trad wives…all I hear is:

        Jews for Hitler

        …which was a real thing. People have not only not learned history, they absolutely refuse to learn from it even if they know some of these things.

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          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_(militant_group)

          Lehi split from the Irgun militant group in 1940 in order to continue fighting the British during World War II. It initially sought an alliance with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.[20] Believing that Nazi Germany was a lesser enemy of the Jews than Britain, Lehi twice attempted to form an alliance with the Nazis, proposing a Jewish state based on “nationalist and totalitarian principles, and linked to the German Reich by an alliance”.[20][21]

          Read the whole article. It’s fills in a lot of the gaps.

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            Oh, right there’s that, but I was talking about this specifically:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

            The “fuck around” phase:

            The Association of German National Jews (German: Verband nationaldeutscher Juden, VnJ) was an assimilationist and nationalist German Jewish organization which was formed during the early years of the rule of the Weimar Republic and during the early years of the rule of Nazi Germany, that eventually came out in support of Adolf Hitler.

            The “find out” phase:

            Despite the extreme nationalism of Naumann and his colleagues, the Nazi regime did not accept the Association of German National Jews as a legitimate intermediary. Following the passage of the Nuremberg Laws, the VnJ was declared illegal and dissolved on 18 November 1935. Naumann was arrested by the Gestapo the same day, and imprisoned at the Columbia concentration camp. He was released after a few weeks, and died of cancer in May 1939.[1] Most other members and their families were murdered in the Holocaust.[17]

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    Leopards and faces.

    I mean, really, do these guys not understand just what the Republican party truly is? Same for the conservative “movement”?

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      I think some of them are sincerely misunderstanding what the word “conservative” means in modern America.

      It’s too bad “neo-con” didn’t stick.

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    My neighborhood has a lot of Bhutani and Nepali immigrants and when I was canvassing last year a surprising number of houses had the older generation as Republicans and the younger generation as Democrats.

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      Seems like a lot of people don’t recognize that they aren’t “in on it” until it’s too late.

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        It was just weird to me. I’m wondering how someone with limited English would make that kind of decision. What were their criteria? What did they base it on?

        At the end of the day I blamed it on what I blame everything on: Reagan. These were Boomer age folks who remember the gilded 80s in US pop culture.

        But I would love to explore it more deeply. Is being conservative common with immigrant parents?

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          I’m wondering how someone with limited English would make that kind of decision. What were their criteria? What did they base it on?

          “Family values”, opposing abortion, limiting women’s rights…

          You know. Conservative.

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          At the end of the day I blamed it on what I blame everything on: Reagan. These were Boomer age folks who remember the gilded 80s in US pop culture.

          Don’t forget Marget Thatcher and the rest of 80s Conservative Ghouls.

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          All the boomers I knew and grew up around, including my parents, fucking hated Ronnie Raygun with a white-hot hatred.