Donald Trump's fantasies of racial violence reflect an all-too-real history
By Chauncey Devega, Salon- Commetary
Published February 08, 2022
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Donald Trump is a highly skilled white-supremacist propagandist. There's nothing natural about that skill. It has been taught, learned and internalized over many years. In all likelihood, it came from his family upbringing. Fred Trump, Donald's father, was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan riot. In the 1970s, the Trump family's real estate company was sued for housing discrimination against Black and brown people.
In 1989, Trump took out full-page ads in major New York newspapers calling for the execution of five Black and Latino young men who were accused of brutally beating and raping a white woman in Central Park. Those men were convicted based on coerced confessions and spent years in prison before being exonerated and released. Trump has refused to apologize or even admit he was wrong.
Years later, Trump would use the racist conspiracy theory known as "birtherism" to attack Barack Obama, and as his own springboard to national political power. In 2016, he rode a wave of white anxiety and racist backlash to the White House, in a meaningful sense becoming America's "first white president."
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America's mainstream news media has largely ignored the constantly rising temperature of Trump's racial rhetoric, in keeping with its overall tendency toward normalizing Trumpism and neofascism. As an institution, mainstream media has a long history of refusing to address the realities of white supremacy and racism in American society in general, and white supremacist and right-wing violence and terrorism more specifically.
As it happens, Conroe, Texas, where Trump spoke recently, has a long and ugly history of white-on-Black lynchings and other white supremacist violence — the same type of violence that Trump's rhetoric seems designed to conjure up is threatening to unleash across the United States.
