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From The Reporter’s Notebook
After Donald Trump on Thursday said he opposed the North Carolina anti-LGBT law, “bathroom laws,” it became an issue on the campaign trail, TPM’s Caitlin MacNeal wrote. Trump later made his position on such laws unclear as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) repeatedly attacked Trump, releasing a video labeling Trump as a member of the “PC Police.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “We’ve seen this movie before. Even if it’s the sequel or another production from the same script, I’m very, very dubious that Trump can pull this off. Set aside for the moment that we’re living in the age of videotape and the implausibility of what Byron York memorably called a ‘personality transplant.’ His personality, his relationship with his supporters who have brought him this far, make it very unlikely he’ll even be to make the attempt. Trump may be full of it. He may be BSing on the margins. But at a basic level, it’s not an act. He can’t control it.”
Say What?!
“It just seems to me that some of the most racist people are minorities. I don’t get into the NAACP or the KKK or any other group of people that doesn’t like somebody because of their color. Christ made us all the same.”
-A South Carolina sheriff who lumped the NAACP and Ku Klux Klan together as “racist” groups told the Spartanburg Herald-Journal that his words were being taken “way out of context.”
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I think sometimes we mistake voting for a ‘person’ for voting for a ‘philosophy’. In this country, we vote for people, but beyond that, we are voting for a philosophy of governance. The two major parties, and many of the smaller ones, have a comprehensive view of how government should deal with the various problems facing the country, and our primary system is designed to choose a person who the party believes has a vision that best exemplifies the values and methods of their philosophy. Now, you may indeed not agree with all the parts of the totality of views held by either party, but you do have the right, and I would posit the duty, to step forward and work to change the philosophy of any party you feel best exemplifies your views at any given time, and add your voice to the battle of ideas. This is hard work, and you may learn a lot of things in the process of doing this, and maybe even change your perspective as time passes.”
Related: The Sanders camp says he’ll remain a Democrat after the 2016 election.
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