Fusion, the try-hard progressive and extreme left sister network of Univision, has given labor icon Dolores Huerta an uncritical platform to spew her hate for all things GOP.
In an interview with Fusion’s Daniel Rivero, Hillary Clinton supporter Dolores Huerta went into her now typical “full smear” mode, maligning the entire GOP presidential field and comparing Donald Trump to the long-deceased former racist and segregationist, George Wallace.
“He’s attacked everyone,” Huerta said of Trump, who added that “the other ones pretty much have the same values as he does.”
When it comes to Trump, Huerta shows herself more unhinged than ever. She leveled what is arguably one of the most over-the-top slanders of the campaign season so far, by deliberately and deceptively conflating the physical altercations at several of Trump’s campaign rallies with the murders of “young people trying to do voter registration drives” during the Jim Crow days in the segregationist South.
“It all makes me remember George Wallace, and these horrible killings of people—when they killed young people trying to do voter registration—and it got really really ugly,” Huerta told Rivero.
While it is true that Trump’s harsh descriptions of immigrants coming to the United States without authorization and his proposal to temporarily halt visas for most Muslims have generated widespread controversy, a George Wallace or a KKK lynch mob it does not make him.
With Fusion’s help, Huerta demonstrated she is on a mission to achieve a type of character assassination that seeks to render the candidacy of any GOP nominee entirely unappealing and unviable for Latino voters. In the interview, Huerta also went so far as to tie her policy agenda to that of the radicals at Black Lives Matter. The folks at Fusion only seemed to cheer her on.
The once widely-revered icon of the American Latino Labor movement evidently no longer cares to make any effort to encourage civil discourse. With her rhetoric, she only fuels the extremely divisive vitriol she claims to disdain.
So there goes Huerta, doing the bidding of the ultra-liberal attack dogs that run People For the American Way, where she serves on the Board of Directors, and doing severe damage to her reputation and legacy in the process.
Below are excerpts from the March 15, 2016 Fusion article “Dolores Huerta compares Trump to Alabama’s racist governor in civil rights era.”
DANIEL RIVERO, REPORTER, FUSION: Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta is not a fan of Donald Trump…
“He’s attacked everyone,” Huerta, 85, said during a recent interview…“The main thing we want to get across to people—especially Latinos—is that he is the face of the Republican Party. But guess what? The other ones pretty much have the same values as he does.”
Fellow Republican candidates Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich share many of the same policy points as Trump… they just put it in a more digestible, less abrasive way.
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The 2016 election has an uncanny resemblance to the beginning of the civil rights movement, she told me. “Not at its peak, but in the beginning stages,” she said. George Wallace, then governor of the state of Alabama, was the most vocal of politicians in his opposition to desegregation in the early 1960s.
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Now, Huerta suggests, Trump might be occupying the same historical space. “It all makes me remember George Wallace, and these horrible killings of people—when they killed young people trying to do voter registration—and it got really really ugly,” she said.
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“We see the immigrant rights movement working with the people fighting for minimum wage, who are working with Black Lives Matter, it’s almost like an awakening of the public,” she said. People are becoming active like we haven’t seen in years.”
