It’s a version of “White Power’ folks…
Of making ‘American Great Again’ by pushing back against ‘Black , Brown and Yellow lives Matter’….
It was the path a Real Estate Salesman from Queens, New York City was able to beat the sure winner wife of a American President to be President….
No sugar coating it….
Muslim Bans….
Border Wall’s …..
Atta Boys for White Power people….
Distane for wearing a mask….
These things are about appealing the white right-leaning America….
Donald Trump has and still wants to make another sale to those who are afraid that people ‘of color’ are becoming an America that had it’s white’s running the show…
An America in 2020 that had forgotten the ways the people Trump champion’s and rants at carried out atrocities against Black, Browns and Yellows in the past….
But because of Donald Trump and some very bad cops?
America has seen people pour into the streets to show their anger and Indigination at a President who has never stopped trying to use them for his personal political gain…
Donald John Trump will try to use his race based sales pitch again to try squeeze another miracle win…
He has NOT 2nd term plan…
He never had a first term plan, except to try to enrich himself and have people show ‘loyalty’ to him before the peoples he swore on a bible to protect….
Trump HAS ALWAYS been about HIMSELF….
We are going to see this again in the next 4 months…
And he will do this on the back of those of color…
And Republicans seem to have no problem to supporting his actions….
If we’re lucky?
They’ll ALL go down in flames come November….
A lot of Republicans are acting puzzled about Donald Trump’s re-election pitch. “He has no message,” one Republican source told Reuters. “He needs to articulate why he wants a second term,” said another. Some have expressed hope that Trump would find a way to become less polarizing, as if polarization were not the raison d’être of his presidency.
It’s hard to know if Republicans like this are truly naïve or if they’re just pretending so they don’t have to admit what a foul enterprise they’re part of. Because Trump does indeed have a re-election message, a stark and obvious one. It is “white power.”
The president started this week by tweeting out a video that encapsulates the soul of his movement. In it, a man in The Villages, an affluent Florida retirement community, shouts, “White power!” at protesters from a golf cart bedecked with Trump signs. “Thank you to the great people of The Villages,” wrote Trump. Only after several hours and a panic among White House staffers did the president delete the tweet.
His spokesman claimed he hadn’t heard his supporter’s extremely clear words. Trump, naturally, never disavowed them.
And why would he? Republicans might act as if they don’t know why Trump’s fans are so unfailingly loyal. Some commentators spent the first year or two of his presidency dancing around the reason he was elected, spending so much time probing the “economic anxiety” of his base that the phrase came to stand for a type of willful political blindness.
But Trump understands that he became a significant political figure by spreading the racist lie that Barack Obama was really born in Kenya. He launched his history-making presidential bid with a speech calling Mexican immigrants rapists and adopted a slogan, “America First,” previously associated with the raging anti-Semite Charles Lindbergh. Throughout the 2016 campaign, he won the invaluable prize of earned media with escalating racist provocations, which his supporters relished and which captivated cable news.
People voted for Trump for reasons besides racism. There was also sexism. Some voters were just partisan Republicans, or thought that reality TV is real and that Trump was as successful as “The Apprentice” made him seem. I once met a young man at a Trump rally who’d voted for Obama but was worried about the taxes he’d pay when he inherited his family’s car dealership.
Trump, however, seems to grasp that racism is what put him over the top. It’s what made his campaign seem wild and transgressive and hard to look away from…..
Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore plays to the same direction mentioned above…
We will see even more of this despite the countries biggest protests against the very same thing…
The old guy just keeps at a festering political wound…
We need more explanation here and context.
Now are these people attending “really” Republicans.
Are they “really” conservatives?Because as you’ve told us Trump isn’t.
Now do they “really” believe what Trump says?I mean REALLY?”
Do they “really” support him?
Are they “really” going to vote for him?
You and CG know a lot about this “really” stuff.
So “really” now,share your knowledge with the rest of us!
Really!”
Hey Jack?
AGAIN…
Conservative Republicans where here BEFORE Trump and will be here after he leaves the stage….
He own most now….
THAT WILL change….
Uh, Hey James
AGAIN
Since the vast majority of Republicans call themselves “conservatives “ and since at some point Trump will be gone?
Then any damn fool will realize that Conservatives will still be “here.”
What insight!
Goofy
Ah,…. back to the forthright, candid, politically-incorrect (in 2020) presidential campaign of New York Gov. Horatio Seymour (D), leading the White Man’s Party in 1872:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1868_United_States_presidential_election#/media/File:SouthernSeymourBlairSong.png
https://68.media.tumblr.com/5b0374dc571ec35e99c07bd722890946/tumblr_n6uat3cHc01qar30zo1_500.png
Here’s a novel idea, the Republicans really do agree with everything Trump says, and, has done in his almost four years in office. He gave them what they wanted, tax cuts, judges, and the great white hope. He will double down on all of it. Expect the most racist campaign in the last 100 years this year. Expect the Republicans to go down that road with Trump. And voter suppression of people of color will the center piece.
Jim Jones political syndrome….
I agree with Keith. Enough of this horseshit about what Republicans “really” think of Trump.
They support him
End of story.
For Now….
‘I Must Mourn’: Frederick Douglass on the Meaning of July 4th to the Slave
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass (a lifelong Republican) gave his classic speech at Rochester, New York on the meaning of the 4th of July to the American slave.
…Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? And am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us? I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary!
Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you this day rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me.
This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak today?
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes that would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour….
Full text at:
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/douglassjuly4.html
By 1963 America had changed a lot but still had a ways to go, when MLK Jr. spoke these words. He seems to affirm that the foundation of America is just and worthy of celebration but that it’s principles needed to be guaranteed
“In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”:
“And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
And this will be the day — this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. “
But consider the words that came before that (remember that Dr King gave his speech 57 years ago next month and 157 years after the Proclamation):
“I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves. Who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition….”
(Of course, it’s foolish rhetorical exaggeration to declare that the Negro of today is “just as oppressed” as his or her forebears were in 1963 or 1913 or 1893 or 1863; but too much persists.)
Good get DSD….
The sad think is we have a President that is pushing AGAINST the words of a Great man with vision and peaceful actions…
That after 8 years of a dream MLK Jr. would have been proud of…
As we move ahead?
Some try to hold on to past we must NOT continue ….