Jonathan Martin: Part of GOP Driven By ‘White Resentment Politics’

‘How do you overcome that in a country increasingly diverse while at the same time keeping the folks in your party energized because they have those views?’

Jonathan Martin: Part of GOP Driven By ‘White Resentment Politics’ (NewsBusters)

On Sunday’s Inside Politics, New York Times reporter Jonathan Martin eagerly used a controversial speech by NRA president Wayne LaPierre to argue that part of the GOP base is driven by “white resentment politics.” CNN host John King noted that Wayne LaPierre is a “big voice in the conservative movement.

Most of the Republican presidential wannabes ran to the NRA meeting to lobby for support" before he played a small clip of LaPierre saying that “eight years of one demographically symbolic president enough.”

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