Go back to the shithole countries you came from, Trump says. So… what, the Bronx? Cincinnati? I mean, sure, I have my own complaints about Ohio, but that seems a little cold. Isn’t he supposed to like America?
I get that this is just another Trump distraction. He thumbed this stream out over his morning shit so we’d turn and look at him, and not his ICE jackboots hauling whole families into Trump-brand KinderCages®. (Only $750 a day per criminal body, fed straight into his crony’s pockets.) It worked, too. We’re not looking at the border anymore, we’re staring at the baboon dancing on the tower. Look at me! I’m on top of the whorled, Ma!
Can we at least stop pretending President Donald Trump isn’t a sexist, racist, white supremacist shit-bag? That’s what he said himself, more or less, and I take him at his word. These Congresspeople aren’t American enough for Trump because they’re brown, they’re women, they’re pretty, they’re mean to him, and (the worst part) they don’t want him sexually. He can’t just grab them, humiliate them, and buy them off. That leaves the orange fool trembling in impotence. (I agree with Nathan: forget about evangelicals, the new official Republican religion is the Incel Rebellion.) And it leaves tiny-dick Trump so furious, he’d torch your brown grandmother in her wheelchair just to watch her burn.
Coincidentally, that’s also the Republican position on healthcare, so I guess it makes sense.
Maybe Trump should reconsider his position on self-deportation. Suppose, say, your grandmother immigrated here from another country. A foreigner, she makes a living and raises a successful family. But now her grandson is unhappy here. He complains all the time. Kind of a dick about it, too. Is it time for the big baby to go back ‘home?’ I can only hope. I mean, Trump’s 2016 “American Carnage” tour was mostly him singing his long list of grievances with America. So, by all means, if you’re unhappy, Yankee go home. To Germany. Not many jobs there, but at least it’s mostly whi—
It’s not a shithole country. That’s what I meant. It’s very… pale?
In 1981, the legendarily horrid Republican strategist Lee Atwater said that Republicans used to shout “Nigger, nigger, nigger!” before changing to dog whistles. Now they’re so confident we won’t stop them, they’ve stopped pretending. “Go back to where you came from!” As much as I hate the ludicrous dog whistles, this change is frightening.
What if the Republicans are right? Is it really too late to stop them?
Trump is almost a distraction. He’s the meathead stupid enough to blurt it all out loud. I know he leads the Republicans around by a new choke collar, but they haven’t changed much. They’ve always been the party of big business, the powerful, the rich, and (quietly) the white supremacists. Now they’re pulling in the racists, kleptocrats, child-molesters, neo-Nazis, and the KKK while cuddling with autocrats across the world. Remember when Republicans said they were the party of a strong defense? Morality? Family values? Yeah, they were lying then, too.
So this is our Republican party now. They agree with each dripping bit of red-meat nonsense Trump dishes, jumping at his command. While there were a few Republicans who disagreed with Trump’s “Go home” tweet, notice they only whispered, using carefully tepid terms? Does that help? Not when way more of them doubled down. Lindsey Graham shouted into his Fox newshole that he agreed, and not only that, those uppity brown women are also Communist, anti-Semitic, anti-American, and mean to ICE agents! Everybody knows that!
And, as a man, the entire rank and file of the brave, masculine, patriotic Republican party nodded along, blinking nervously, trying to stand completely still, so they don’t draw attention.
The answer is the Senate. I know that Trump is the spittle-flecked face of white supremacy, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is the real power behind the squawling Trump-baby. McConnell didn’t use his Republican majority for much, but he made damn sure to concentrate all the legislative power into his office. All the Republican leaders knew that compromise was a suckers’ game. Now McConnell can sit there on top of his narrow majority, slowly gumming his flabby jaws through every legislative bill from anywhere. It’s not that it doesn’t matter to him; McConnell knows that breaking the government serves his purpose. And in the meantime, every month McConnell shoves more extreme partisans into lifetime judicial positions. Once he controls enough of the courts, nobody in America will be able to stop him.
The Senate is the key, and Democrats are still predicted to lose the Senate in 2020. Trump is already going down. We need to flip the Senate to win; anything short of that and we lose. Imagine McConnell gets another two more years of his majority. He’ll use every Republican monkeywrenching tool he has to ensure complete legislative disaster. Then in 2022, the Republicans will run on the “Democrats can’t get anything done.” platform. You’ve seen it lots of times already. And now we’re the shithole country.
Vote Democrats into the Senate.
