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Fake news, racism and bombs: Fear and loathing in Trump's America
OPINION/UNITED STATES
Fake news, racism and bombs: Fear and loathing in Trump's America
Yesterday's bomb threat showed yet again that Trump is now the most prominent enabler of domestic terrorism in the US.
by David A Love
2 hours ago
Donald Trump, the American president, has fomented violence against liberal opponents and critics who disagree with his policies, and so-called "fake news" media organisations he regards as the "enemy of the people." With pipe bombs mailed to some of the political targets he has singled out for retribution - several high-profile Democratic Party politicians, including two former US presidents, a liberal billionaire philanthropist and a major news organisation - Trump is the most prominent inciter of violence and facilitator of right-wing American domestic terrorism.
For the past two years, Trump has stirred the putrid cauldron of racial hatred, xenophobia and violence, with divisive rhetoric and dehumanising policies. Now, with this massive, potentially devastating assassination attempt on political leaders less than two weeks from the most important US election in generations, the depravity of Trump's America is laid bare for the world to see.
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Trump and his sycophants thrive on social division, dehumanisation and gratuitous violence as an electoral strategy, including painting their political opponents, the left and minority groups as a violent mob. Now, after kidnaping thousands of migrant children, separating them from their parents' embrace and throwing them in cages, Trump conjures up images of marauding migrant caravans who must be met with military force at the border.
Under this presidency, racial dog whistles have been normalised. Even worse, white supremacist ideology has been validated, and Nazi protesters are regarded as "very fine people". When Trump recently proclaimed he is a nationalist, which is understood as white nationalist - white supremacists such as former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke heralded the announcement. Trump's Republican Party has undergone its full-scale descent into fascism, complete with Brownshirts such as the Proud Boys - a gang of Republican-affiliated street brawlers who thrive on toxic masculinity, Islamophobia and racial violence, and seek broader public acceptance at a time when their man is the most powerful person in America. This, as white nationalist hate group Identity Evropa plots its infiltration into the Republican Party to mainstream their white supremacy and ban nonwhite immigration.
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Fake news, racism and bombs: Fear and loathing in Trump's America
Yesterday's bomb threat showed yet again that Trump is now the most prominent enabler of domestic terrorism in the US.
by David A Love
2 hours ago
Donald Trump, the American president, has fomented violence against liberal opponents and critics who disagree with his policies, and so-called "fake news" media organisations he regards as the "enemy of the people." With pipe bombs mailed to some of the political targets he has singled out for retribution - several high-profile Democratic Party politicians, including two former US presidents, a liberal billionaire philanthropist and a major news organisation - Trump is the most prominent inciter of violence and facilitator of right-wing American domestic terrorism.
For the past two years, Trump has stirred the putrid cauldron of racial hatred, xenophobia and violence, with divisive rhetoric and dehumanising policies. Now, with this massive, potentially devastating assassination attempt on political leaders less than two weeks from the most important US election in generations, the depravity of Trump's America is laid bare for the world to see.
....
Trump and his sycophants thrive on social division, dehumanisation and gratuitous violence as an electoral strategy, including painting their political opponents, the left and minority groups as a violent mob. Now, after kidnaping thousands of migrant children, separating them from their parents' embrace and throwing them in cages, Trump conjures up images of marauding migrant caravans who must be met with military force at the border.
Under this presidency, racial dog whistles have been normalised. Even worse, white supremacist ideology has been validated, and Nazi protesters are regarded as "very fine people". When Trump recently proclaimed he is a nationalist, which is understood as white nationalist - white supremacists such as former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke heralded the announcement. Trump's Republican Party has undergone its full-scale descent into fascism, complete with Brownshirts such as the Proud Boys - a gang of Republican-affiliated street brawlers who thrive on toxic masculinity, Islamophobia and racial violence, and seek broader public acceptance at a time when their man is the most powerful person in America. This, as white nationalist hate group Identity Evropa plots its infiltration into the Republican Party to mainstream their white supremacy and ban nonwhite immigration.
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