2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhat is the best way to show that Trump is racist?
Trump brings on stage the family of someone murdered by an immigrant. To many people that is irrefutable proof we should ban immigrants. Should we point out that he could also find a family whose child was murdered by a Jew and claim Jews should be expelled? Should we add that Trump's father was arrested at a KKK rally dressed in a KKK robe (newspaper accounts were recently found proving this)?
I think tens of millions find Trump's family of murdered child argument completely convincing. How should we respond?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)liberal N proud
(60,348 posts)His past actions also do very well telling who he is.
Wounded Bear
(58,755 posts)is hinted at in a quote I read elsewhere on the internets, I think from Edmund Burke:
There are many people in this world where self evaluation and relflection are pretty non-existent.
liberal N proud
(60,348 posts)As for Trump, I don't think he cares and will never change.
Our task then is to awaken everyone else of his racism and to make sure he is never in a position to wield power over others.
Wounded Bear
(58,755 posts)Many of them fail to realize their own inner biases. Of course, many of them do and just don't care, but that's another problem.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)peggysue2
(10,844 posts)Donald Trump delivered a hate speech last night, filled with all the recognizable, demagoguery tricks: hyperbole, scapegoating, empty promises, fear mongering and straight out lying. The speech was delivered with all the red-faced anger The Donald could muster for his red-meat loving audience. The icing on the cake was bringing out families who had lost loved ones because there's never a tragedy that Trump won't politicize for his own gain.
He is racist, toxic and extremely dangerous. The media is failing because they insist on normalizing Trump, calling yesterday's Mexico City photo-op and immigration hate speech 'his best day yet.'
There's nothing normal about Donald Trump unless you're talking about despots of the past. We can all read the blood-curdling history on Trump's Band of Notorious Brothers.
It ain't pretty.
As I've said before--there's a reason David Duke loves Donald Trump. There's a reason the American Nazi Party sees great opportunity in a Trump presidency and why White Nationalists defend the man so energetically.
Donald Trump needs to be pulverized in November. Or we will all rue the day.