Trump summons a monster he cant control

[sheshe2]

By Renée Graham Globe columnist November 27, 2016



AS DONALD TRUMP scrounged for votes in this nation’s shadiest corners, his rhetoric about making America strong and respected was a direct appeal to white men. At its core, his slogan “Make America Great Again” is about restoration of white male supremacy — and the notion that for this nation to be great, white men must be dominant, front, and center. For some of these men, it’s been an unbearable eight years with Barack Obama as president; electing a woman would have been a bridge that much farther.

Trump’s stridency made him president, and now white supremacists and nationalists are acting as if they’ve hit the swastika sweepstakes. Meanwhile Trump, who riled up white men by promising to return America to a “Mad Men”-style era that will never again exist, pretends recent outrages have nothing to do with him.

Of course, others voted for Trump as well. Yet no demographic backed his candidacy with as much fervor as white men of all ages, education levels, and socioeconomic backgrounds. For them, Trump was a corrective candidate, someone with potential to make their country into a place they again understood and recognized.

Even his oft-repeated assertion that only he could save us and make the world right was a proclamation of male superiority. (No woman would ever make such a claim.) Trump’s man is one for whom negotiation and compromise are tantamount to capitulation. When Trump bellowed about building a wall and making Mexico pay for it, he was flexing a stark, redoubtable version of American brawn right out of a John Wayne movie.

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Yes, for "months he feasted on hate"

[unblock]

1. As if he cared to control it.

[guillaumeb]

2. And of course in Trump's America, a "real man" does not negotiate. He grabs it by the........

whatever........and takes what he wants with no apology.

Recommended.

[sfwriter]

3. We need to blame REPUBLICANS...

...its about time this gets laid at their door.

[Shoonra]

4. We are being too quick ....

We are being too quick to diagnose these very early manifestations as a lasting part of his administration and to blame Trump for everything that we expect to follow.

It is entirely likely that the Alt-Right appointments will be very temporary or uninfluential, just to repay political debts, and the more permanent and effectual appointments will be to more competent people, and that Trump, once in office, may prove to be more mature and sensible than he was on the campaign trail. At which point, we may want to claim that some of his successes are due to us.

[sheshe2]

5. To Quick????

Hate crimes are escalating.


10 Hate Crimes Inspired by Donald Trump's Hateful Rhetoric

Irrational violence is spilling out of Trump rallies and affecting the lives of everyday people.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/10-hate-crimes-inspired-donald-trumps-hateful-rhetoric

The hate divide: Hate crimes are up, up, up and Trump supporters want to deny, deny, deny

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/17/the-hate-divide-hate-crimes-are-up-up-up-and-trump-supporters-want-to-deny-deny-deny/

Trump is not to blame?

WTF!

[joshcryer]

6. Sweet summer child.

It's going to get really bad. This is the tip of the iceberg.

[sheshe2]

10. Yup.

We ain't seen nothing yet. There will be pain and good people are going to die.

[Initech]

7. He feasted on hate and that hate has created a monster he can't control.

As I keep saying it's going to be a very scary 4 years.

[sheshe2]

8. Yep...

I am terrified.

[DemonGoddess]

9. K&R!