By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
RENO, Nevada |...He came and said it aloud here again over the weekend. Blood from Africa and south of the border keeps coming here and "poisoning our blood." Donald J. Trump, the oft-indicted Republican candidate for president, loves to quote Nazi Adolf Hitler and a passel of other dictators.
He conveniently forgets how long the United States has been an immigrant country. He ignores the fact that a bit more than 10% of our population lists itself as of mixed-blood ancestry, a number experts say would grow dramatically if genetic testing would ever be considered and done.
But it's nothing new with him.
Trump, whose real last name is Drumph, a loser name his German-immigrant father dropped after coming to this country, has been at it for the entirety of his adult life. How long did he rag former President Barack Obama about that birth certificate Trump said would show Obama had been born in Africa and was not eligible for the presidency.
How long did he crow about the so-called Central Park 5 after five African-Americans were (as it turned out) wrongly arrested and jailed in connection with the rape of a white woman out on an evening jog. Trump bought full-page Ads in the New York Times ahead of their trial, seeking the Death Penalty.
No, his racism is not anything new, although, funny as it may seem, two of his three wives have been immigrants.
So, no, it was no surprise on Saturday when he again continued with his bigoted ways at a rally here.
This from NBCnews.com: [ Trump said immigrants coming to the U.S. are "poisoning the blood of our country," a remark on Saturday that quickly drew a rebuke from his chief Democratic rival as President Joe Biden’s campaign likened the words to those of Adolf Hitler.
"They let - I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country," Trump also told the crowd at a rally in New Hampshire. "That’s what they’ve done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just to three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world."
Trump then repeated the use of "poisoning" in a post on his social media website Truth Social, saying overnight in an all-caps post, that "illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation. They’re coming from prisons, from mental institutions - from all over the world."
The term "blood poisoning" was used by Hitler in his manifesto "Mein Kampf (My Struggle)," in which he criticized immigration and the mixing of races. "All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning," Hitler wrote. ]
That "originally creative race" is funny, but, then, Hitler seems to have had little knowledge of where the Human DNA originated: Africa.
The Doomsday racial terminology seems to be working with a certain segment of our population, the so-called Republican Base.
As could be expected, a number of high-profile Americans fired back at the Mar-a-Lago Marvel, with The White House leading the way. Republican Chris Christie, a second-tier candidate for president in the current campaign, labeled it "disgusting."
Trump kept at it. He quoted Russian dictator Vladimir Putin who'd said "rottenness" in the American Democracy would be the end of this country. It gets to where if a dictator said something about the U.S., Trump is going to use it against the U.S.
He's fighting 91 felony counts in court, a fraud trial in New York that could be the end of his quirky real estate business empire, election games in Georgia and a federal indictment related to his taking classified documents when he departed the White House in early 2021.
What else is he supposed to do but inflame the country's racist emotions?
Trump has reached the point that he can realistically be considered hysterically paranoid...it's just too bad that we still have to count him as an American...
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Lock him up!
ReplyDeleteThis language is in chapter one of the authoritarian's playbook: weaponize fear, target outsiders, undermine institutions, erode the truth, etc. Trump is going to be Trump; it's baked in the cake. What is upsetting and shameful is all the politicians who enable him for their respective thirst for power. And so we are now here, like boiling crabs on the stove, oblivious to the danger ahead. It is easy to become discouraged because the majority may feel that their vote may not matter; he is a shoo-in to capture the electoral votes in Texas. What is within our locus of control is to ensure that we elect a congressional representative who does not align themselves with his political malfeasance. - AntonioG
ReplyDeleteI'm not so sure he'll win. But if he does, all should know that you can get citizenship in Uruguay for $5,000...Thanks for the thoughtful comment...
DeleteExcellent piece.
ReplyDeleteTrump has made no secret about his desire to do Putin's bidding and get the US out of NATO. I don't think that invading Mexico will go over too well. The high tariffs Trump set earlier is one of the main drivers toward the inflation we recently experienced.
ReplyDeleteThen there's NATO: Trump does not have to go through the process of actually withdrawing the us from NATO. He will be the commander in chief. He will just merely not order any U.S. forces to action if Putin invades. Putin knows this. Rest assured, Russia will invade the Baltic states after Trump takes office.
ReplyDeleteGood report, sir.
ReplyDeleteTrump needs to be punished. Like jailed.
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