Trump's Racism Is Not Blundering -- It Is Tactically Deliberate

[babylonsister]

Trump’s Racism Is Not Blundering — It Is Tactically Deliberate


Trump's racism is not an oops, it's a fascist strategy.
By William Rivers Pitt,
Truthout
Published July 16, 2019


Donald Trump is a giant flapping racist and doesn’t give a single damn if that bothers you. Given this reality, it is important to note that when Trump dispensed with all pretense and held a one-man Sunday morning Klan rally on Twitter, it was not a blunder on his part.

When he dug his heels in on Monday morning and said the women of color he insulted were the ones who owed an apology, it was not an oops.

When asked pointedly by reporters on Monday if he was bothered that white nationalists have been celebrating his outburst, Trump replied, “It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me. And all I’m saying, they want to leave, they can leave.” It was not a mis-statement.

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Trump’s Sunday tirade fits the pattern he has been unspooling for years. He was deliberately terrible right out of the gate, and has grown incrementally worse with each passing day. None of this is accidental.

More than four years into the experience, Trump can now pull a stunt that would have obliterated any previous politicians’ career before sundown and get away with it, because it’s incrementally more of exactly what he has been doing since he rode that golden escalator into this elongated infamy we now endure.

This is part and parcel of creeping fascism. An instance of horrifying racism becomes merely “expected” from the president, and then he moves on to another one, and then another, and another after that. He and his administration are laboring to normalize the grotesque.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. Essay on Ur-Fascism - Umberto Eco (1995)

https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf

[Claritie Pixie]

2. He's had a lot of help conditioning us. Both inside and outside the US.

We've allowed him to control us and play into his game.

Not just Americans who agree with him but all of us.

[RKP5637]

3. The "boiling frog syndrome" ... reduced sensitivity ... and normalization. Damn dangerous!!! And so

many Americans IMO continue to be naive and gullible ... and for others, Trump represents what they are made of!

[uponit7771]

4. Trump is a true racist and he uses his racism as a distraction

[malaise]

5. And he's brazen enough to say there are people who agree with him

The fucker is pandering to the racists.

[RKP5637]

7. Exactly!!! Racists and Bigots are his kind of people! It's damn pathetic and this asshole racist

continues to make destroying America his prime goal. It is so damn obvious now!

[dalton99a]

6. He loves to remind the cult of their white supremacy

[RKP5637]

9. Trump, "Leader of the Cult!" n/t

[Cicada]

8. The Trump vote in 2016 was based solely on racial resentment, here is proof

Tell me the racial resentment score in a region, I will tell you the Trump vote. Nothing else adds any accuracy to the prediction. I will save you from the darkies coming to rape our women, hook us on drugs, steal our jobs, I will build a wall to keep the darkies out. Nigger Nigger Nigger always wins in the south, and does will among non college whites in rural and rust belt districts. That’s why Trump won. https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/15/16781222/trump-racism-economic-anxiety-study

[RKP5637]

10. Great link you provided!!!!! n/t

[brush]

11. It's also who he is. Nothing new. Instances of racism are all over his history.

He just finally took off the white hood—kept the white robe on. He's betting there are more like him in the country than the rest of us.

I'm betting against him just as we all did in 2018.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. Yes

Democrats continue to underestimate Trump, this is a tactic in support of his re-election strategy. Trump is going to paint himself as America and anyone against him as un-American. It's his strategy for re-election and he and his campaign think it's a winning one.