The Donald Trump base proclaim it’s his tax cuts for the wealthy, his merciless immigration insurance policies, and his trade de-regulations that they help, not his racist, fascist ideology. Nonetheless, like Trump, they’re mendacity. Trump has embraced white supremacy hate teams and has used hate- primarily based rhetoric that may now be related to an increase in violent crimes towards Jews, blacks, LGBTQ group members and different minorities. The attraction that hundreds of thousands of individuals need to the hateful, corrupt, bigoted autocrat Trump is as scary and threatening to America as the unique “America First” 1940’s fascist motion.
Consuming dinner with anti-Semitic election deniers is dangerous sufficient, nevertheless, not denouncing the person and his hateful beliefs is worse. It reveals a lot about who Trump is; a person with a historical past of racist rhetoric, racist governing, emboldening white supremacist hate teams, and admitting to be a ” nationalist” ( conveniently leaving out the phrase “white” and winking to his base. The constant point out of the phrases Nazi, white supremacy, white nationalism and anti-Semitism have 🍯 been referenced extra in connection to Donald Trump than to some other president in American historical past.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy and Senator Mitch McConnell made normal statements right now saying ” there isn’t any place within the Republican occasion for anti-Semitism and white supremacy” and “nobody needs to be assembly with anybody who espouses these kind of beliefs”. These are fashionable, non- controversial declarations made simpler as a result of they overlooked the phrases “Donald Trump”. The Republican leaders are opportunistic sissies afraid to rightfully demonize Trump regardless of his traiterous actions towards our democratic system of presidency.
In distinction to the emadculated McConnell and McCarthy, Senator Mitt Romney used Trump’s identify when he blasted him for the dinner he shared with anti-Semite Nick Fuentes and the mentally erratic Kanye West. Romney responded to reporters questions on Ttump by saying “I don’t suppose he needs to be president of the USA. I don’t suppose he needs to be the nominee of our occasion in 2024 and I definitely don’t need him hanging over our occasion like a gargoyle.” Why can’t the Republucan voters get behind an ultra- conservative like Romney and dump the rebellion ist ex- president? Romney voted twice a protracted with democrats and a handful of different Republicans to question Trump.
Republicans like Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska are a shame to their workplace. Sasse voted to question Trump, and but has stayed quiet whereas Trump has far elevated his assault on demicracy and decency. Sasse is especially hypocritical as he has written books on the subject of the significance of morality in our society. The place is Sasse and different GOP members of Congress on the problem of Trump and the MAGA motion? They’ve passively rolled over and handed their occasion to Trump and his ctonies. In the long term, their passivity will show to be as damaging to democracy as Donald Trump and his motion of auticratic hatred.