At least we don’t have to pretend Trump’s being ambiguous. His vocal support for white supremacists in general everywhere, and in Charlottesville in particular, clarifies things horrifically.
Democrats have been condemning him for a while, just as they always do. I expect their vocal — and toothless — condemnations to continue. Cough up some real alternatives before I’ll take you more seriously.
Republicans are offering tepid objections, just as they always do. They talk a good game. What will they really do? Will they censure Trump? Will they vote against him? Anything? These were people chanting about Jews. Do something more than talk.
The Republican party has been the party of white supremacists for decades. Wedge issues R us. They have been working to tear us apart as a culture and a country. With this moment, and Trump’s open support, it’s too late for dog-whistles and code words. Everyone has to ‘fess up. For or against Nazis and the KKK? For or against white supremacy? The bill has come due: put up or shut up.
White House officials are pretending they’re not part of the White House. Good luck, there, Chuckles. Trump, holding his hand up to silence the press, retracted his words on Saturday condemning the white supremacists, and now swears that the white supremacists were not that bad. There were good people there, he swore, standing behind a POTUS lectern and surrounded by his gold fixtures and his purported wealth.
This is how Trump has always thought. This is a man who never pulls back, who never reconsiders, and who never doubts. He doesn’t change any ideas, ever, no matter whatever evidence, because change is weakness. Trump has never had moral authority. His dad was a KKK official. David Duke praises Trump, and claims him as his own President. He has the KKK vote, and the Nazi vote. And he’s OK with all of that.
Trump is his father’s image. This is who we elected.
