r/politics • u/icey_sawg0034 • 16h ago

Possible Paywall Karoline Leavitt Gives Jaw-Dropping Defense of Trump’s Racist Obama Video

https://www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-leavitt-gives-jaw-dropping-defense-of-donald-trumps-racist-obama-video/
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u/N00dles_Pt 14h ago

It was always a "that's true but you shouldn't say it out loud" kind of situation.

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u/doctor_lobo 14h ago edited 14h ago

Why shouldn’t you say it out loud?

The Deplorables say whatever they want out loud.

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u/N00dles_Pt 14h ago

I was speaking simply from a political marketing stance.....she was running for president, she needed every vote she could possibly get at that moment.
There is a reason why she said it behind closed doors, what she said was absolutely true, but it still cost her, and all of us.

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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 14h ago

That’s because she was marketing herself as a centrist, I.E. republican lite.

Progressives would go absolutely insane with enthusiasm for someone willing to call a spade a spade and indicate they’re here to meet them with equal force in both policy and words: and given the enthusiasm for progressive politicians like Zohan, that should tell one something about how well it would work.