With her usual brilliance Heather "Digby" Parton hits it out of the park about the reason Don the Con is doubling down on his racisim:
If you doubted that the 2020 presidential campaign will be the ugliest you've ever experienced, the past few days should have disabused you of that. It's been a descent into grotesque racism and xenophobia...And it's not just a matter of Donald Trump acting out and having one of his regular tantrums. There's a rationale behind his behavior that's extremely disturbing.
I recommend reading the full article. Ms. Parton starts off with the “Christian" hypocrite VP Pence visiting the Concentration Camps at the border:
Trump had mentioned in passing that he wanted to take reporters to a recently cleaned-up facility featuring happy, well-fed children to prove how "fake" the reports of cruel and disgusting conditions were...But even after observing and writing about the Trump administration's..use of xenophobia, racism and general fear-mongering...I'm never quite prepared for the depths to which they will sink. I assumed they were doing this because they believed they needed to reassure their own voters of their basic humanity. I was wrong. The visit to the kiddie-camp was a little sop to some embarrassed churchgoers and the press. What Team Trump really wanted their voters to see was another camp — the one with hundreds of single, dark-skinned men in overcrowded cages, sleeping on concrete floors...As I see it, Trump officials wanted to reassure their voters that they were treating the scary brown people with much cruelty as they could get away with.
So there you have it in a nutshell, a strategy that is about as subtle as a brick through a plate glass window. The Cruelty is the Point, because as pointed out by Ms. Parton:
...If they hadn't wanted people to see those men being held in inhumane conditions, they wouldn't have gone there with the press in tow.
Ms. Parton closes her column with a quote from Peter Baker of the New York Times:
His assumption that the House Democrats must have been born in another country...fits an us-against-them political strategy that has been at the heart of Mr. Trump’s presidency...Heading into next year’s election, he appears to be drawing a deep line between the white, native-born America of his memory and the ethnically diverse, increasingly foreign-born country he is presiding over, challenging voters in 2020 to declare which side of that line they are on.
Which brings me to the Title of this diary: How will the Voting majority decide when confronted by the Racist POS and his challange?
I still feel that most people are basically decent but I also remember the Speech by the character Dr. Ernst Janning (Burt Lancaster) in the movie Judgement at Nuremberg: