It’s Not Enough
by tristero
Shouting “Send her back” in addition to “Lock her up” means that it’s now normal for Trump’s legions to openly, collectively, and regularly bray their racist hate to the world.
It won’t be enough for them to stop there. So far, we’ve only had some genuinely sick individuals foment violent Trumpist terrorism. But now, expressing collective racism is (once again) completely normal in mainstream America.
Racism is now so normal that editors at The New York Times don’t think Trump’s racist remarks are racist enough to officially label as racist. Instead they persist in cravenly leaving it up to their columnists, as if it’s a fucking opinion that Trump’s remarks are racist. Do we have to have lots of modern versions of the above picture posted to the right wing web sites before they get it? Apparently, we do.
Of course, Maddow is right. He’s doing this to distract from his corruption, his criminality, and his wanton destruction of the US government. But we must pay attention because in a very real sense, his racism is central to it all — if you have such hatred and contempt as Trump does for the real, multi-ethnic, politically diverse America of 2019, why not loot it and stomp on it and wreck it?
I’m genuinely terrified and I’ll remain terrified until he is impeached and removed from office.