Us vs. Them: From George Wallace to Donald Trump | Retro Report
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5 ай бұрынDonald Trump has used populist politics to appeal to voters fed up with the status quo. We look back at another politician who once tapped into America’s divisions: George Wallace. Lesson plan for educators: bit.ly/RR-segregation
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@kentstallard6512 3 ай бұрын
Wallace was an opportunist without principles.
@thomaseastmond7184 3 ай бұрын
Most populists are
@FangsOfTheNidhogg 2 ай бұрын
Sounds an awful lot like Trump...
@kentstallard6512 2 ай бұрын
@@FangsOfTheNidhogg Trump is the contemporary Wallace...using coded rhetoric.
@caseclosed9342 2 ай бұрын
“I got a medal from George Wallace!” -Joe Biden
@user-mx6mc3lr1y 2 ай бұрын
Kamala Harris shaved her Mustache.
@susansmiles2630 Ай бұрын
What? 50 years ago? You guys are so pitiful. How many homes for the homeless has any conservative built with his own hands? President Jimmy Carter was the most honest, most humane President ever. The work he has done for Habitat Humanity over all these decades since he left office has ACTUALLY followed the teachings of Jesus. How did the Republican Party lose its soul? Or did it ever have one?
@jesusacosta5176 3 ай бұрын
One can't compare Wallace to Trump.
@robertshonk518 2 ай бұрын
True. As far as I know, Wallace never raped a woman in a department store dressing room.
@dellnelson03 2 ай бұрын
they’re a perfect comparison if you actually have a brain and can understand it, i’m guessing you don’t
@susansmiles2630 Ай бұрын
You're absolutely right. Trump is SOOOO much more terrifying as a human being with ZERO Soul.
@bjarkusmcfarkus6737 2 ай бұрын
“B-b-but Wallace was a democrat!!” Party affiliation means nothing
@oldhef9927 3 ай бұрын
Wallace was a pure political animal he stands in front of a bunch of people and said what they wanted to hear black white didn't matter come on man they all still do it 😅
@thomasdeturk5142 3 ай бұрын
This is What a lot of NIMBY people come from. NIMBYism is rooted in Segregation. It means not in my Backyard.
@8176morgan 5 ай бұрын
Not much about Donald Trump in this video, its nearly all George Wallace. There are also a lot of differences between Trump and Wallace with the most notable one being that Wallace was involved in racial issues. But it is true that they both dislike Liberals, but then again there are a lot of people who fit into that category.
@kentstallard6512 3 ай бұрын
Trump is this era's Wallace. Same ideology--White Christian Nationalism.
@themainmanborah 3 ай бұрын
@@kentstallard6512Wallace literally dropped that whole shtick - - he's an opportunist with zero principles, like other politicans. And calling Trump a "White Christian Nationalist" while he actively campaigns for non-white support and has done things for the black community such as prison reform is very cute. Wallace would've never done "prison reform".
@kentstallard6512 3 ай бұрын
@@themainmanborah LOL It's the ideology. Listen to the rhetoric. Every Trump rally features Confederate and Nazi iconography. Not a fringe element but the core base. Wallace was a racist who pretended not to be when it was no longer politically expedient and wanted to clean up his image before kicking the bucket. Trump and his slumlord father wouldn't rent to Blacks and minorities in the 70s. The fact that the Orange Grifter panders on occasion to minorities is nothing more than a political ploy.
@travtotheworld 2 ай бұрын
@@kentstallard6512 Ah yes... Trump, with his Jewish in-laws, black HUD Secretary, and first openly gay cabinet member in US history is truly the embodiment of White Christian Nationalism. I can't imagine how hard you have to work at being so ignorant.
@kentstallard6512 2 ай бұрын
@@themainmanborah The sliver of Black support is irrelevant to the rhetoric and core ideology. MAGA is the latest iteration of American Christian Nationalism, from the Confederacy, Klan, Dixiecrats, Moral Majority, Tea Party. I'm cynical regarding Wallace's crisis of conscience. Had his side prevailed would he have repudiated segregation? I doubt it.
@N9mber 2 ай бұрын
Why not Bernie Sanders and George Wallace?
@sapnamukherjee6716 2 ай бұрын
Both Bernie and Trump are polarizing. However, you have to note that both Trump and Wallace lie in the far side of the conservative spectrum while Sanders lies in the far side of the liberal spectrum
@robinhess9570 3 ай бұрын
Trump is not Wallace can’t compare
@dellnelson03 2 ай бұрын
yes he is all you trumpies getting mad cause it’s a perfect comparison 😂
@GTA5Player1 2 ай бұрын
Us vs them makes sense. It's just that they focus on the wrong THEM!
@user-mx6mc3lr1y 2 ай бұрын
Kamala Harris shaved her Mustache.
@2H2521 Ай бұрын
Absolutely ridiculous comparison!
@susansmiles2630 Ай бұрын
You're right. TRUMP IS MUCH WORSE.than George Wallace could ever was.
@lugasalexander4852 3 ай бұрын
Imagine comparing Wallace to Trump 🤦… this is why people call Trump a bunch of awful names for things he’s not.
@kentstallard6512 2 ай бұрын
Same ideology. Same base. Dixiecrats became the Moral Majority which became the Tea Party which is now MAGA. Same cohort of Christian Nationalists.
@seanwebb605 5 ай бұрын
America is fucked. Carry on.
@Justanotherpokespepfp 3 ай бұрын
At least Wallace redeemed himself, trump hasn’t.
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