Trump's regime is leading America in an insurrection

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Trump's regime is leading America in an insurrection

Trump’s regime has ignited the base by conjuring up a vision of whiteness imperiled by ‘illegals’, ‘black identity extremists’ and Muslim terrorists

Carol Anderson
Wed 1 May 2019 11.00 BST

On Friday, Donald Trump praised Robert E Lee. Slaveholder. Sadist. Traitor. Loser. It was his way of offering another “attaboy” to the neo-Nazis that marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, even after they killed Heather Heyer, beat an African American man, and chanted “Jews will not replace us.”

Trump’s statement was a clear nod to his base. That would be the same base that sent pipe bombs to the Clintons, Obamas, congressional Democrats and CNN. The same base that gunned down African Americans at a grocery store in Kentucky after failing to gain entrance to a black church. The same base that killed Jews while in Pittsburgh and then followed up with another slaughter in Poway, California. The same base that burned down three black churches in Louisiana and the storied civil rights center, the Highlander Folk School. The same base that had a hitlist of Democrats, including Representative Maxine Waters, and an arsenal of weapons to do the job. The same base that pretends to be border patrol as it kidnaps and cages human beings and defies law enforcement to do anything about it. The same base that invaded a bookstore in a tony section of Washington DC to intimidate an author who was laying out the pathology that places whiteness above everything else, even living.

America is in the middle of an insurrection. Led this time by another rogue government, only this one is not ensconced in Montgomery or Richmond. The architects of rebellion are in the White House. While they have ignited the base by conjuring up a vision of whiteness imperiled by “illegals” crashing the US/Mexico border, “black identity extremists” gunning for the police, and terrorists who, apparently, can only be Muslim, they haven’t stopped there.

In a multi-front attack, Trump’s regime has laid siege to the very pillars of America – elections, the rule of law, “We the People” and the constitutional bedrock that Congress and the judiciary are co-equals with the executive branch.

In the process, the White House has dared Congress to fire back. ...

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/01/trump-regime-america-insurrection

[playaseeker]

1. The threat of ISIS

My wife was watching the local news on a Sinclair owned station last night. They had a "special feature" on the threat from ISIS. Despite the fact that the world is awash in white supremacist terrorism, Sinclair, the wannabe Fox competitor, features ISIS, because, you know - Brown people are scary

[lunasun]

2. I travel sometimes for business and have caught some of the "local news" stations

What is really scary is the crap some people are being fed in some towns as news

[Sneederbunk]

3. When I travel I carry a list of Sinclair stations to avoid.