candidate says AR-15 needed to fight 'Democrats in Klan Hood

candidate says AR-15 needed to fight 'Democrats in Klan Hood Jul 6, 2022 22:21:09 GMT

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Post by the Scribe on Jul 6, 2022 22:21:09 GMT

AZCentral | The Arizona Republic
Arizona Republican candidate in ad says AR-15 needed to fight against 'Democrats in Klan hoods'
www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-republican-candidate-ad-says-212349283.html
Tara Kavaler, Arizona Republic
Wed, July 6, 2022 at 5:23 PM

Congressional candidate Jerone Davison participates in a Republican debate on Arizona PBS on Monday, May 9, 2022.

A provocative new campaign ad in which Republican congressional candidate Jerone Davison uses an AR-15 rifle to defend his family from "a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods" met Wednesday with mixed reaction online.

Davison, a former NFL player and pastor, is one of five Republicans running for the GOP nomination in Arizona's 4th Congressional District, which includes parts of Tempe, Mesa and Chandler.
www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/03/05/arizona-4th-congressional-district-candidates/9284667002/

He posted the 24-second clip with the caption "Make Rifles Great Again," with an emoji of a bicep curl, which is often used to indicate strength.

The video starts out like a standard Republican campaign ad in words:

"Democrats like to say: 'No one needs an AR-15 for self-defense. That no one could possibly need all 30 rounds.'"

However, the initial image of the a Ku Klux Klan member hints where the ad is headed. As the Klan member walks toward Davison's house, he sits in his kitchen sipping coffee in a cup that displays the American flag and then clasps his hands together and places them toward his face as if he is praying.

"But when this rifle is the only thing standing between your family and a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods, you just might need that semi-automatic and all 30 rounds," the narrator says.

Davison exits his house with the AR-15 as a mob approaches with a pitchfork and other weapons. When the approximately six or seven Klan members — with one appearing to be Black — see Davison's gun, they retreat.

The ad drew reactions from both sides of the political spectrum.

"This has to be the greatest campaign ad in history! Best of luck in your race sir!" one Twitter post says.

Conservative commentator Shemeka Michelle wrote: "Haha!! I love it! He played their game against them."

Others were not so supportive. "The historian in me is weeping. The human is screaming," another Twitter user said.

"There's something about Ex-NFL players & head injuries. Jerone Davison & Herschel Walker are walking advertisements of CTE," another said, referring to the brain condition chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

The Davison campaign did not respond immediately to a request for comment about the ad.

Tara Kavaler is a politics reporter at The Arizona Republic. She can be reached by email at tara.kavaler@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @kavalertara.

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: GOP candidate Jerone Davison releases pro-AR-15 ad

candidate says AR-15 needed to fight 'Democrats in Klan Hood Jul 6, 2022 22:27:43 GMT

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Post by the Scribe on Jul 6, 2022 22:27:43 GMT

this idiot isn't smart enough to fact check that it was SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS who were Klansmen and plantation owners. They were CONSERVATIVES. Those same CONSERVATIVES fled to the GOP after the Democratic Party liberals introduced and passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts mid 1960s. All those racist Democrats are now racist Republicans where they are right at home. That is how the South went from blue to red where it remains today.

That is the big mistake these people make. They believe the misinformation from conservative media or how the conservative part is left out of the conversation.

a previous post:

You are speaking of a time when Liberals populated both parties and it was the Liberals, NOT the conservatives who were passing civil right legislation.

Civil Rights ISN'T a political party thing, it isn't Republican or Democratic. It IS CONSERVATIVE VS LIBERAL and has more to do historically with CONFEDERATE "CONSERVATIVE" SOUTH VS UNION "LIBERAL" NORTH.

You don't need to know too much history to understand that the South from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 tended to be opposed to minority rights.
90% of members of Congress from states (or territories) that were part of the Union voted in favor of the act, while less than 10% of members of Congress from the old Confederate states voted for it. Democrats in the North and the South were more likely to vote for the bill than Republicans in the North and South respectively. It just so happened southerners made up a larger percentage of the Democratic than Republican caucus, which created the initial impression that Republicans were more in favor of the act.

Nearly 100% of Union state Democrats supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act compared to 85% of Republicans. None of the southern Republicans voted for the bill, while a small percentage of southern Democrats did. The same pattern holds true when looking at ideology instead of party affiliation.

The folks over at voteview.com/ , who created DW-nominate scores to measure the ideology of congressmen and senators, found that THE MORE LIBERAL A CONGRESSMAN OR SENATOR WAS THE MORE LIKELY HE WOULD VOTE FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, once one controlled for a factor closely linked to geography.

Minorities have a pretty good idea of what they are doing when joining the Democratic party. They recognize that the Democratic party of today looks and sounds a lot more like the Democratic party of the North that with near unity passed the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 than the southern Democrats of the era who blocked it, and today would, like Strom Thurmond, likely be Republicans."

After 1964 all the racist conservatives in the Democratic Party went Republican where they remain today. It is just a natural order of things that Conservatives are racist no matter what their party affiliation.

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