Most Americans disagree with Candace Owens: They see hateful rhetoric on the rise
Candace Owens of Turning Point USA testifies Tuesday on Capitol Hill. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow April 9 at 2:01 PM One could have predicted the result of inviting Candace Owens of the conservative group Turning Point USA to a congressional hearing. And one would be correct.
“Let me be clear,” she said in her opening statement. “The hearing today is not about white nationalism or hate crimes. It’s about fearmongering, power and control. It’s a preview of a Democrat 2020 election strategy, same as the Democrat 2016 election strategy.” “What they won’t tell you about the statistics and the rise of white nationalism is that they’ve simply changed the data set points by widening the definition of hate crimes and upping the number of reporting agencies that are able to report on them,” Owens later said. “What I mean to say is that they are manipulating statistics.
Owens’s rhetorical style builds arguments backward from her desired conclusion that Adolf Hitler wasn’t a nationalist because a nationalist wouldn’t kill his own countrymen). Here, she believes that Democrats are insincere in their professed advocacy for minority groups and assembles a theory in which the party is manufacturing a crisis of oppression to maintain its hold on voters.
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