The master of abhorrent identity politics
By Eugene Robinson
November 2 at 7:33 PM
... racism is a feature of the .. administration, not a bug ...
With remarkable consistency, Trump has picked fights that portray white Americans as besieged, offended or disadvantaged by dark and alien Others. Rather than embrace the nation’s multicultural diversity, he blames it for a host of problems — crime, terrorism, drug abuse, economic stagnation. He encourages whites to fear the coming day when they are no longer a racial majority. He stokes anxiety by dividing the country into "us" and "them."
And Trump does .. this cynically and deliberately ...
When Trump miscalibrates and strays into explicit racism, as he did in the case of Charlottesville, there are expressions of shock and horror from fellow Republicans and even members of his Cabinet. But nobody renounces him, except senators who are about to retire. Nobody quits his administration on principle. Trump's enablers meekly go back to the all-important business of cutting rich people’s taxes ...
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