Trump and Pence's racist weekend spectacle is the re-election plan

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If you doubted that the 2020 presidential campaign will be the ugliest you've ever experienced, the past few days should have disabused you of that. It's been a descent into grotesque racism and xenophobia on a level we haven't seen in our national politics for many decades. And it's not just a matter of Donald Trump acting out and having one of his regular tantrums. There's a rationale behind his behavior that's extremely disturbing.

As everyone is well aware by now — or should be — the refugee camps at the border are a national disgrace. If this was happening in another country (and if we had a different president) the United States would be leading the charge to condemn what was happening. The plight of families, particularly the kids, is an ongoing nightmare and Trump seems determined to exploit the pain and suffering of these vulnerable people to keep the country in a constant state of hysteria.

The Washington Post described it like this:

When Vice President Pence visited a migrant detention center here Friday, he saw nearly 400 men crammed behind caged fences with not enough room for them all to lie down on the concrete ground. There were no mats or pillows for those who found the space to rest. A stench from body odor hung stale in the air. When reporters toured the facility before Pence, the men screamed that they’d been held there 40 days, some longer. They said they were hungry and wanted to brush their teeth. It was sweltering hot, but the only water was outside the fences and they needed to ask permission from the Border Patrol agents to drink.

Pence appeared to scrunch his nose when entering the facility, stayed for a moment and left.

Pence objected to media coverage of this event over the weekend, complaining that they failed to show the nice pictures of the happy children and instead focused on the misery of all those men caged up like animals.

https://www.salon.com/2019/07/15/trump-and-pences-racist-weekend-spectacle-was-no-accident-its-the-re-election-plan/

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1. Watch Pence's posture and gestures as he enters and

stands there. Arms tightly crossed against his body (classic "I'm not listening" body language), steely glare while temporarily regarding the packed, smelly thirsty masses in front of him and then turning and walking rapidly away. Not once did he even deign to acknowledge the miserable human beings caged in front of him. I'm sure he was highly offended that they couldn't be bothered to bathe and so smelled bad. And this is our SuperChristian V.P.