Former President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Republicans carry around a sense that “white males are victims.”
“What’s always interesting to me is the degree to which you’ve seen created in Republican politics the sense that white males are victims,” Obama explained during an interview with The Breakfast Club. “They are the ones who are under attack, which obviously doesn’t jive with both history and data and economics. But that’s a sincere belief that’s been internalized, that’s a story that’s being told, and how you unwind that is going to be not something that is done right away, it’s going to take some time.”
Obama also blamed Fox News and radio host Rush Limbaugh for spreading misconceptions about Democrats.
“And the story that they’re hearing from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and, in some cases, inside their churches, is that Democrats don’t believe in Christmas, only care about minorities and black folks, and are trying to take your stuff and trying to take your guns away,” Obama said.
The 44th president touched on race several times during the interview and suggested at one point that Hispanics who voted for Trump were ignoring his racism because they supported his positions on social issues.
“People were surprised about a lot of Hispanic folks who voted for Trump,” Obama said. “There’s a lot of evangelical Hispanics who … the fact that Trump says racist things about Mexicans, or puts detainees — undocumented workers — in cages, they think that’s less important than the fact that he supports their views on gay marriage or abortion.”
.@BarackObama: “There’s a lot of evangelical Hispanics who…the fact that Trump says racist things about Mexicans, or puts detainees— undocumented workers— in cages,they think that’s less important than the fact that he supports their views on gay marriage or abortion.” pic.twitter.com/g13DHGcM7y
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) November 25, 2020
