by Lynn Mandaville
I think he does it to show the Republican Party that they belong to him. Really. He knows they kow-tow to him. Fear contradicting him. Support any ideas he dreams up, regardless of their merit. The emperor has nothing on, and not a single Republican will tell him he’s naked.
Once again, Trump has done the verbal equivalent of shooting someone in the middle of 5th Avenue, and his base, and the Republican House and Senate, are deaf and mute.
Over the weekend Trump showed us his stellar, sophisticated, diplomatic style by making unacceptable comments about four US Congresswomen. All are women of color, all are citizens of the United States. Only one was born abroad (Ilhan Omar is Somali-born), the others born here.
Trump believes they should go back “where they came from,” specifically, disastrous countries that are torn by war and strife and economic travails that he mistakenly thinks are their countries of origin. Trouble is, three of them came from the Bronx (NY), Detroit and Chicago.
He has doubled down on his weekend hate speech by calling them socialists rather than progressives, and he has hinted that they might be communists. Here are a couple of quotes from our most articulate leader.
“I’m saying that they’re socialists, definitely. As to whether or not they’re communists, I would think they might be.
“They can leave. And you know what? I’m sure there will be many people that won’t miss them. But they have to love our country. They’re congresspeople.”
White nationalist groups have found common ground with the president’s sentiments, and he doesn’t seem at all bothered by the association. But what’s the old saying? “Birds of a feather flock together.”
This may be just another distraction cooked up by our untraditional president. Maybe he’s concerned about his association with Jeffrey Epstein and what may be uncovered investigating the sweetheart deal Acosta schemed up twelve years ago against the pedophile/sex trafficker.
A little racism to throw the public off the scent?
And so far the Republicans are taking shelter behind the racist comments, silent and unbothered by such blatant hate-mongering.
I read an interesting quote this morning, someone in congress calling Trump a “racial arsonist.”
Creates an interesting image, doesn’t it? Setting fire to the American psyche with yet another Molotov-cocktail of ignorant hate speech? Intended to raise the heat of emotion that comes with this kind of firebrand rhetoric?
These are the comments Trump makes that inflame some of us so intensely we fall into his snake pit of name-calling infantilism.
Why is it that Republicans aren’t as appalled as we? Or are they just too chicken-s**t to speak up against a would-be tyrant? After all, he has to love our country, too, right? He’s the president!
Speak up, Republican readers. Defend the racist/white supremacist who so uncouthly maligns four fine women duly elected by their citizenry! Or are you chicken, too?
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