Slate - More Signs that the Worst Case Scenario of the Trump Presidency is Coming to Pass

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/02/27/trump_era_anti_semitism_border_thuggery_are_what_we_feared.html

We Are Living In the Second Chapter of the Worst-Case Scenario

By Ben Mathis-Lilley

There was a lot of discussion, while Donald Trump was running for president, about just how destructive his administration could really be. Would he follow through on his radical policy plans and continue to behave at all times like a peevish, cruel child, or would he govern via popular, inoffensive centrism and try to act in an at least somewhat more dignified fashion? After his first month in office, my colleague Michelle Goldberg wrote that the Trump administration's cruel and unconstitutional attack on Muslim immigrants and his personal debasement of various norms of public integrity and decency was, in fact, as bad a worst-case scenario as could have been imagined. The ensuing week has seen the situation deteriorate further.

1. An Indian engineer in Kansas was shot and killed by a white man who reportedly shouted "get out of my country!" and may have believed he was shooting at a Middle Eastern immigrant.

2. Hundreds of headstones have been desecrated at Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis and Philadelphia while a wave of bomb threats triggered evacuations of Jewish community centers, schools, and day cares across the country. It's the fourth national outbreak of anti-Jewish bomb threats that's taken place this year.

3. Old recordings of a prominent, Nazi-fetishizing "alt-right" figure named Milo Yiannopoulos—whose career has long been supported by Trump's top adviser, Steve Bannon, and whom Trump has tweeted about approvingly—resurfaced in which Yiannopoulos defends the right of adults to sexually abuse 13-year-olds. Breitbart.com—the publication for which Yiannopoulos worked, and on which he published an infamous column praising several white supremacists—was today given an exclusive interview in the Oval Office.

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[malaise]

1. I do feel sick

Groper and his goons will learn

[pat_k]

2. Which is why Pelosi's "DT has 'nothing to show' for 1st mo...

in office except 'fear'" is such a wrongheaded message.

He's done a lot more than sow fear and bigotry. His words and actions are inciting violence. He's already shit canned important protections. Protections that help keep our water and wildlife safe from poisons; protections that preserve civil rights in public institutions; protections that protect consumers from predatory private sector actions; protections that preserve open government. He did it all by executive order. No help from Congress needed. (And of course right-wingnuts have been busy bees over on the hill too.)

Not to mention his appointment of "leaders" to executive agencies who are hell bent rendering their respective agencies incapable of carrying out critical public sector functions.

What he has done is FAR WORSE than "nothing."

If DT had accomplished "nothing" i'd be delighted.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. well put. I agree. I actually think he is just a weird kind of surrogate for the real damage being

done - the shiny object (dull actually) that is the squirrel that the media chases....more important to keep our eyes behind the curtain!

[pat_k]

7. Absolutely. While we have our eyes on the DT "car wreck"...

... executive agencies are being "deconstructed." U.S. Congress (and state houses) are introducing incredibly destructive laws at such a fast pace it's impossible to keep up (particularly when all eyes are on DT).

I think we've got to stop the "rubber necking" -- but it is VERY difficult. It's hard to take your eyes off the the manifestations of his psychopathy, the outrageous lies, the "inner circle" insanity, his lashing out when he feels he has been slighted in any way. We can't take our eyes off because it is SOOOOoo hard to fathom.

We need to figure out ways to keep our "eyes on the ball" (i.e., focus on doing whatever we can to publicize and lobby our elected officials to fight against the actions that are destroying our public sector protections and institutions).

Something I posted about a week ago:

Call to Action: Letters to editors to refocus on what Repubs in Congress are doing.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028680197

[MsLeopard]

4. This

It's the damn truth, if he'd done nothing the world would be a much better place.

[dalton99a]

6. He is worse than a doorknob. A doorknob is inert and nondestructive.

[Kimchijeon]

5. Pretty gross.

As ludicrous as it is, I am actually not surprised that someone so mentally challenged as Orange Ding-Dong speaks to wackadoodle Alex Jones...

[More_Cowbell]

8. He WANTS our eyes on the "car wreck"

(Or at least, President Bannon does.) We are all wasting time on his craziness and losing sight of the evil that he does. Myself included.

[Perseus]

9. I cannot understand how anyone could have asked this question

"Would he follow through on his radical policy plans and continue to behave at all times like a peevish, cruel child, or would he govern via popular, inoffensive centrism and try to act in an at least somewhat more dignified fashion?"

Knowing the person, how can you even ask that question? How do you expect a vile being to change the moment he swears to uphold the constitution, knowing that his is an empty promise, that his swearing on the bible has no meaning to him.

Who here really expected trump to behave differently from the way he has behaved his entire life? The campaign? That was just a continuation of his classless and petty normal behaviour, how could anyone expect better from him?

These type of questions drive me nuts, it is on the same level as saying "well, trump didn't mean what he said"...well, yes he did!

Get real people, vile beings don't change over night...

"and try to act in an at least somewhat more dignified fashion?" ---> He doesn't know how to act dignified, that is why the NY elite never accepted him. You can dress a monkey in silk and gold, but the monkey is still a monkey.

[elmac]

10. elections have consequences

and fraudulent elections really have consequences.

[Solly Mack]

11. K&R

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Not unconnected

Abuse and fear feeds passivity

RESIST

[pangaia]

13. This is nothing..of course it's NOT nothing....but will get much, much worse.

Several days ago I had a little hope..CIA FBI, media, etc..
But today...I do not feel good.
To irrow the Republican Houses Judiciary Committee will vote NOT to investigate the fuckwad.