When Trump Feels Threatened, White Supremacy Is His Only Weapon

[Nevilledog]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-supremacy-is-trumps-weapon_n_5f11b5bbc5b619afc400a094


Donald Trump is backed into a corner. Snapshot polls show his support flagging during an election year, he bickers with his favorite propaganda wing at Fox News, and he has repeatedly failed in his response to the COVID-19 pandemic that is currently throttling the United States.

But when his future looks bleak, Trump has one ace up his sleeve that he’s always used: his whiteness. He’s never been afraid to weaponize his status as a white man, and for his fervent supporters, the ploy works. Studies suggest that it was racial resentment, fostered by his mostly white supporters, that fueled Trump’s victory in 2016.

Those supporters remained loyal as he checked box after box in the white supremacist’s ideological handbook: as he instituted a travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries; as he referred to some white supremacist protesters as “good people” following a deadly Nazi rally in 2017; as he oversaw mass detentions of families, including children, seeking refuge at the southern border; and when he told three congresswomen of color they should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

To his supporters, Trump’s racism has been a feature, not a flaw. And now, as the U.S. is set to surpass 140,000 coronavirus deaths, and more than a million laid-off workers are filing for unemployment benefits each week, Trump is prioritizing white grievance politics over virtually all other issues, including the spread of a deadly disease.

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. Hard to visualize rump as white being that he's orange all of the time. A sickly orange color too.

Pathetic loser.

[Nevilledog]

2. Orange Power just doesn't pack the same punch.

Sounds like a Gatorade flavor.

[tulipsandroses]

3. t was racial resentment, fostered by his mostly white supporters, that fueled Trump's victory

I hope we have put to bed the - the "economic anxiety" argument.

The media continues to give him cover. He wants to roll back fair housing laws - He stood on the White House Lawn and ranted about how it has been devastating for the suburbs and Biden wanting to make sure those zoning laws were fair would destroy the suburbs. Instead of calling it racist - the media still tip toes around it and calls it political.

[abqtommy]

4. tRUMP and his white-spremacist supporters have always been a vocal minority. It's interesting

to me that tRUMP's response to Covid-19 is to make sure that his supporter's numbers are drastically
falling since they're dropping like flies in a room sprayed with insecticide. Nobody has ever accused
tRUMP of being smart, and for good reason... But we can use that to our advantage.