tRump is a racist, Ok?
I get that and it sickens me
He’s talking about my family and friends in there
He’s attacking a swath of our best Congresscritters
And their constituents
And their Districts
But is that really what we want to base our campaign to remove him on?
Racism isn’t illegal
And it turns out, it’s still very popular, polling in the 40s
tRump is using his racism and that of his followers for several purposes:
It distracts from other things
It riles up his base and hardens them
It divides Democrats (unfortunately)
And it’s not new
He started his campaign in 2015 with a blatant racist message
And he won that campaign (technically, he lost the popular vote but won the race)
I think we are being drafted by his racist outbursts
This is a concerted, intentional effort, not a faux pas, not a gaffe, but a tactic
And we shouldn’t fall for it
Take the racism as baked in and go after him on some of the other stuff
Stuff like denying asylum, breaking up families, caging children
Stuff like tax evasion, money laundering, sex trafficking, receiving bribes and emoluments
Stuff like destroying agencies we rely on to protect US, installing incompetent and crooked people in those agencies, packing the courts with people who should never sit in judgement of other people
Stuff like destroying the Constitution
I’m not arguing that we should turn a blind eye to the racism
What I’m saying is that we should focus our campaigning on the rest of the stuff he’s doing