{"id":522510,"date":"2021-05-18T16:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=522510"},"modified":"2021-05-18T16:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:36:22","slug":"cnn-gop-opposition-obama-based-on-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-gop-opposition-obama-based-on-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN: GOP Opposition Obama Based On Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-gop-opposition-obama-based-on-racism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=522510&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Obama.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>CNN, which recently fired a contributor with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-faces-backlash-over-contributors-pro-hitler-tweets-he-did-good-with-those-jews\">history of pro-Hitler tweets<\/a>, claimed that Republicans opposed former President Barack Obama because of his race and turned to President Trump as a solution to their racial animus.<\/p>\n<p>In an hour-long special on Sunday night \u2013 \u201cA Radical Rebellion: The Transformation of the GOP\u201d \u2013 Fareed Zakaria said that conservatives were already disillusioned after the failed Bush years and were sent into overdrive after President Obama\u2019s election in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was, of course race \u2013 the issue Republicans had happily exploited \u2013 that would finally push the party to the edge. A black President in the White House triggered a dramatic response,\u201d Zakaria said in the special, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/brad-wilmouth\/2021\/05\/18\/vile-hour-long-cnn-propaganda-gop-hated-obama-mostly-because-race\">Newsbusters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rise of the Tea Party movement was supposed to be a response to ObamaCare. But, in reality, it was mostly a response to Obama\u2019s race,\u201d Zakaria later added after showing videos of extremist protesters at Tea Party events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe base began not only to hate Obama,\u201d argued Zakaria. \u201cBut to despise GOP leaders for being unable to stop him. They soured on the Bushes, on John McCain, on Mitt Romney, searching instead for someone who would embody their rage, and finally give them their revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Zakaria, Republicans flocked to President Trump in hopes that he would deliver them their needed revolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the beginning of a calculated two-faced dance by Republican politicians \u2014 not voicing the conspiracies themselves, but embracing the conspiracy theories,\u201d he said. \u201cBut now, ever since Donald Trump\u2019s election, Republican officials have mostly dispensed with the denials and the condemnations of the crazies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zakaria made this claim despite the fact that Democrats spent millions of taxpayer dollars investigating the \u201cRussian Collusion\u201d conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>As the special closed, Zakaria then accused Republicans of the same sins that Democrats are likely guilty of, saying that they must come to grips with the modern world if they want to have a future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Republican politicians are now riding the back of a tiger, and they can\u2019t get off. Reagan, Gingrich, Trump \u2013 all the icons on the right whipped their followers up into a froth of hysteria, and promised that they will repeal and reverse most of these terrible trends,\u201d he said. \u201cBut, of course, it never happens, which makes the Republican base grow more and more angry. And, as their sense of betrayal grows, so does their sense of desperation that American civilization is in great danger of collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a great and honorable space in America for a party of limited and efficient government that values traditionalism, and that believes that social change should take place slowly and organically,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut that\u2019s different from a band of ideological warriors with apocalyptic visions that fear the End of Days, seeing opponents as traitors and devils, and believes that all methods are sanctioned in its battle to save civilization and itself. In short, the Republican party needs to have a political exorcism, drive out its demons, and come to terms with the modern world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday Night special aired the same day that CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-faces-backlash-over-contributors-pro-hitler-tweets-he-did-good-with-those-jews\">fired a contributor<\/a> with a history of pro-Hitler tweets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-faces-backlash-over-contributors-pro-hitler-tweets-he-did-good-with-those-jews\">\u00a0CNN Faces Backlash Over Contributor\u2019s Pro-Hitler Tweets: \u2018He Did Good With Those\u00a0Jews!\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN, which recently fired a contributor with a history of pro-Hitler tweets, claimed that Republicans opposed former President Barack Obama because of his race and turned to President Trump as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278472,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Obama.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"CNN: GOP Opposition Obama Based On Racism","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Obama.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"CNN: GOP Opposition Obama Based On Racism","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}