TRUMP IS A BLAZING RACIST.
As the AP noted recently, there are serious problems with Trump’s idiotic Mexican wall idea.
Immigrants aren’t sneaking across the border illegally. They are entering legally on visas, and then over-staying. A lot of them actually come in by plane. Also, the flow of immigrants has slowed so much that there are as many people going to Mexico, as leaving it. So the wall is pointless.
A ten-billion dollar wall can be easily defeated by a guy digging a tunnel with a twenty-dollar shovel.
Previous efforts to build walls have led to lawsuits.
A treaty with Mexico bans any structure which impedes the flow of river water; the wall also can’t cause flooding or block water run-off routes.
The wall would require huge land purchases; some owners have already said they don’t want to sell. Some land belongs to native tribes.
Some wall projects would violate federal regulations.
There are dozens of protected species living along the border, whose habitats would need protecting.
Some areas have shifting sand dunes which cannot be blocked.
Real business people have challenged Trump’s claims regarding the cost of the project and the way it could be funded: they’ve seen Trump’s construction projects fall apart one time too many.
Trump insists that Mexico pay for the wall. They’ve refused.
Trump’s proposal to tax immigrants to pay for the wall would cause a political firestorm and violate NAFTA; the cost of the tax would ultimately fall on U.S. consumers.
The wall will interfere with intelligence coordination with Mexico.
Even Republican experts on national security think it’s an insane idea, so Trump would be fighting the political battle by himself.
And threatening to nuke Mexico if they don’t build is, no other word for it, insane.
Other that these few teensy problems…great idea, Donald!
You look at his cockamamie wall idea, and it’s no surprise that at least twenty of his grand real estate schemes have collapsed.
In Trump’s eyes, Mexicans are criminals, rapists, killers; he made a point of expelling a Mexican reporter from a press conference; he talked smack about Jeb Bush’s Mexican-born wife; he praised the patriotism of men who beat up a Hispanic man.
He wants mass incarceration of undocumented immigrants – not just deportation. Jail.
He opposes birthright citizenship. So who are we going to kick out? Brown people, black people, Muslims, people Trump doesn’t like?
Muslims: he wants surveillance of Muslims and their mosques, and a ban on entry by Muslims.
American troops are fighting alongside American Muslims and local in-country Muslims, and interacts with neutral and hostile Muslims all the time;Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric is putting our troops in increased danger.
Blacks are lazy!
He blames blacks and Hispanics for increased crime.
He isn’t sure what his position is, on the Ku Klux Klan.
That black guy in the White House – where’s his birth certificate? I think he’s a Kenyan.
Trump’s son is out there doing interview work with white supremacists on the radio. He hangs out with them a lot. And seriously, when you see Trump at an event with those slick, creepy kids standing behind him sneering at the audience, doesn’t it feel like we’re handing the White House over to the fucking Malfoy family?
Trump’s insistence on violently removing black people from his rallies, week after week, because they scare him.
Lethal injection is too humane – executions should be even more cruel.
Sentences should be longer.
He’s okay with executing teenagers who were coerced into confessing to a crime they didn’t commit.
He wants more “leeway” for the police.
SOMEBODY’S GOING TO DIE.
Trump’s rallies, and the protesters it attracts, are pure gold for Trump. It feeds into a redneck’s delusional view of reality, the notion that he is part of an oppressed minority, constantly under attack from the fearsome African savages and Mexican rapists. And then he gets to show his friends that he is the hero, bravely attacking the black guy while his pals film it. Trump is the TV producer who allows ignorant white trash to create their own hero myths on live TV. All summer long, eager rednecks will show up at Trump rallies, hoping to be the lucky one to beat up a black guy, a Mexican, a reporter.
And soon they will begin to show up armed.
So somebody is going to get killed at a Trump rally. Trump doesn’t just want the White Trash as the base of his movement – he wants the hate and violence that go with it.
Trump eggs on the violence. He proclaims his hate for Mexicans, who in his eyes are rapists, and dreams of a billion-dollar wall to keep them out. He wants Nazi-like expulsion programs for the Mexicans already here – even legal citizens, whose birthright citizenship he wants to take away. He hates Muslims who should all be banned from the country and their mosques spied upon. He hates blacks who in his eyes are criminals: the Ku Klux Klan is okay by him.
Trump loves to see the hate and violence right in front of him. Ever since he launched his campaign, violence has broken out at his rallies repeatedly. Some black girl, some Mexican kid, a reporter or an activist, is chosen as Victim Of The Day. The howling mob starts screaming at the victim, booing, racial slurs, anti-immigrant insults, “White power!” Then the crowd, sometimes assisted by Trump staffers and security guards, attacks: the victim is spit on, shoved, kicked, thrown to the ground, and dragged away.
At the podium is Trump, picking fights with audience members, egging the crowd on to hit the kid again, insulting and mocking the victim, praising the patriotism of the thugs who are beating him, and insisting that the victims start all the fights. At one scary rally, he actually directed the police chief to go after black kids who were PROTESTING SILENTLY – and the cops obeyed him (later the cops and the Trump team blamed each other). Later he even promised to protect the rednecks who are beating up the black and brown people; he said if they got arrested, he’d defend them in court. He is also putting reporters in pens so they can’t report on the attacks against protesters.
Trump has plainclothes detectives infiltrating his audiences, hunting the “disloyal”, and they are not only busting heads at rallies: they are doing “opposition research” on people who MIGHT come to future rallies to protest, so they can be ready to pound their heads. Which is pretty much how the SS got their start in Germany. The violence now involves active-duty police and military, active-duty Secret Service, and Trump’s own campaign manager who has been caught physically attacking people twice.
And if someone isn’t killed at a rally, it will happen somewhere else. Two guys argue in a bar. A case of road rage over an Obama bumper sticker. Campaign workers get into a fight over lawn signs. The GOP-run House committee which just tried to forcibly expose the identities of scientists who did research on fetal tissue, which will put them in danger. A Supreme Court decision on the Texas abortion case leads to a clinic shooting. Threats and vandalism against Democratic Congress members and their kids, like we saw after Obamacare was passed. A lone gunman shows up at a Hillary rally, intending to make history. This is what happens when a political party spends thirty years inciting hate and telling millions of ignorant rubes that everyone who disagrees with them is a stinking traitor.