When your own fans compare you to George Wallace...
...as
a retired welder at the Trump rally in Alabama did...
"Donald Trump is telling the truth and people don't always like that,"
said Donald Kidd, a 73-year-old retired pipe welder from Mobile.
"He is
like George Wallace, he told the truth. It is the same thing."
...you know Trump's hitting the target demographic he wants.
Nativist, reactionary, undereducated.
Wallace
was so proud of his racist attitudes that he had them included
in a comic book produced in 1960 during his election campaign!
These pages are excerpts of the 16-page comic considered instrumental in Wallace's victory in 1960.
You can see the complete comic
HERE.
You'll
note an emphasis on "states' rights" of the sort Tea Partiers advocate
as well as the paranoid fear that the Feds wanted to "take over"
Alabama.
BTW, In his inaugural speech after winning the race, Wallace promised
"segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
Note: Ironically, Wallace was a Democrat.
However, Federally-forced desegregation as well as the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 caused many racist
Democrats to switch to the
Republican Party (which began catering to the right-wing audience with the "
Southern Strategy") or, as in the case of Wallace, joining the newly-created
American Independent Party.
In the late 1970s, Wallace became a born-again Christian and recanted his racist attitudes.
But I don't think the 1970s Wallace was the one
Donald Kidd was referring to...
