Donald Trump is completely unfit to be president of the United States.
That is how Blow begins this piece for today’s New York Times.
He calls the resident of 1600 Pennsyvania Avenue NW
intellectually deficient, temperamentally unsound and morally bankrupt.
and immediately follow that with these words:
Just this week, he has once again underscored the degree to which he is openly hostile to people of color — I call that racism and bigotry — and demonstrated his lack of impulse control to conceal his contempt even when doing so would be to his benefit.
That of course refers to Trump’s unacceptable use of “Pocahontas” in the ceremony that was supposed to be honoring the Navajo Code Talkers.
But there is so much more, including the reports that Trump has again begun espousing his birtherism to folks around him, and then the tweets yesterday of Right Wing and racist memes from other nations, of which Blow writes
Not satisfied with his implicit (though obvious) endorsement of white supremacy here in America, Trump has now explicitly endorsed white supremacy in another country.
These are not mistakes. These are not coincidences. This is not mere bungling. These are revelations of the soul. This is who Trump is and who he has always been. This is who he was before he entered politics, and who he remains.
The Trump Doctrine is White Supremacy. Yes, he is also diplomatically inept, overwhelmed by avarice, thoroughly corrupt and a pathological liar, but it is to white supremacy and to hostility for everyone not white that he always returns.
I am not going to quote more.
I wanted to be sure that people were aware of this piece.
I do not believe there is any acceptable defense, not even the possibility that is becoming more and more talked about that Trump’s mental capacity is diminishing, perhaps to the point of dementia. Even if one assumes dementia, what we are seeing is something that was always true, something Trump demonstrated with his approach to the Central Park Five, something that the historical record shows was part of how he and his father ran their housing business, for which they were fined by the Federal government.
I fully accept that we need to call out and not rationalize or justify the unacceptable sexual behavior by many, including on some on our side of the aisle.
But we should also demand that people denounce as unacceptable any words or actions by Trump that are racist.
Prime MInister Theresa May had the courage to do so.
When will elected Republicans here follow suit? Have they forgotten that they originally spoke out against him on his words on Judge Curiel, on Mexicans in his announcement of his candidacy, on his unacceptable comments about Muslims?
Are tax cuts so important that they cannot stand on the firm ground of anti-racism?
If they cannot, then are not they themselves complicit in his racism?
Read the Blow piece.
Please.