The current presidential administration has had acting Homeland Security Directors, an acting Chief of Staff and worse of all Donald Trump has acted as President. From windmills to secreted tax returns, gassing children at our southern border and caging families, the President keeps firm control over his cruelty by keeping control of how and who wields it. The President is an acknowledged liar, despite the New York Times refusing to authorize the use of the term. This may explain why Mr. Trump so readily gives interviews to the Gray Lady despite his public foot stomping and breath holding when they report the truth.
The two and a half yearlong effort to drive a stake through the heart of the FBI and the other revered entities of governmental justice are like garlic to the blood-sucking vampirism of a president looking to drain the coffers of America for his personal financial gain. In order to do that he needed to subvert the system, pack courts, appoint a hand-picked flunky as Attorney General [William Barr] and cheer the theft of a Supreme Court seat by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky).
The subliminal message of a utopic white America is what he is selling, and his rhetoric suggests his followers buy in with the currency of racism. This past Friday he called the desperate, the scared and the babies of our neighbors to the south “animals.” According to the President, Africans and Caribbeans are living in sh*tholes and African Americans are “sons of b*tches.” Tossing paper towels to residents of a hurricane-ravaged island is not compassionate, it is ridicule. Just this weekend he told an assembled group of American Jews Netanyahu is “your Prime Minister.” Is he suggesting some sort of repatriation from America to Israel, for Jews? The Republican Jewish Coalition rolled the dice in Vegas this weekend, but those dice may come up craps if they place their chips on the Trump table for a purer America.
Jewish groups, like the Republican Jewish Coalition, castigated Rep. Ilhan Omar for using an old trope referring to ‘dual allegiance’ when speaking about American Jews but lauded Mr. Trump for saying it outright.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen who debased herself and her legacy forever by separating and caging families resigned Sunday. Supposedly the President wanted her to illegally deny asylum seekers and ramp up his family separation policy. Nielsen implemented this program enthusiastically in the past. I guess we will find out in the coming days what brought on her resignation, maybe the constant and public ridicule forced her out, much like Jeff Sessions and Rex Tillerson. Anyone who has dared challenge the President with facts or data has been made to walk the plank. Mr. Trump has gone against convention and instead of reading, study and consults he has replaced it with brooding, guesswork, and insults.
If all this sounds a bit dictatorial, well you are right. Notoriously the dictator’s handbook starts with destroying political rivals, breaking down the institutions of government, opposing the press and ending in isolationism with a foundation of racism and xenophobia. If ever there was a time to be “Woke” it is now. I refuse to live in Trump-ica.
Vote in 2020 for Change.