It should be noted that the officials of many cities have announced that they will not cooperate in any mass deportation efforts of the federal government.
Come on; that article cites Trump’s tweet of himself eating a taco salad as evidence that Trump isn’t prejudiced against Hispanics. Also, it has no mention of Pence, Bannon, Sessions, or other Trump administration high-ups who have demonstrated prejudice.
Nobody cares. Screaming about “illegal immigrants” is just an excuse for a general persecution of brown people, or people with the “wrong” religion. Nobody cares if they are immigrants or not.
Obama accomplished very little because he was opposed by the people who now control the government. They won’t stop Trump, they’ll cheer him on and go even farther.
The taco salad was indeed a weak point in the article. No argument there. Most of his rebuttals, however, are based on statistics and Trump’s known history.
I’d love a similar treatise on Trump’s cabinet. It seems that Trump has such a simple mind he really only divides the world into winners and losers. He doesn’t care if he appoints an anti-Semite, a woman, a gay man, he just cares that those people are considered successful. There is certainly a danger in that, and it is also a moral failure, but it’s not the same thing as white nationalism.
Remind me when we started deporting citizens for being brown?
Seriously? I really needed the quotation marks and attribution to Trump on that already-classic line? OK, here’s the relevant bit, so you can see how I was riffing between Trump and the first quote at the top of this post:
When we elected Trump. A vote for Trump was a vote for ethnic cleansing.
Well, there’s this in today’s NYT, of course. Gives me pause.
And I’m sure you have a cite for when and where Trump declared that, as president, he would start deporting all the non-white citizens?
I got to this line,
and realized that I needed to read no [DEL][COLOR=“Black”]führer[/DEL][/COLOR] further!
CMC fnord!
Are you serious?
A civil war fought on ideological lines? Really? Is that what the left wants. Be careful you asked for Trump and look what that got you.
But, but, but, Hitler was a liberal. National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
No. Nor is it going to get one; the Right controls the military, and you can’t have a civil war when only one side can meaningfully fight. So all that’s going to happen is the rollback of civil rights to the 1920s or earlier, and the suppression of anyone who dares complain.
I’m not sure of your background but you seem very concerned that the checks and balances of the various institutions in the US aren’t sufficient to stop a despot. They are. The military respects the constitution more than the office of the presidency or whoever occupies it.
Yes. There will be isolated hateful incidents. And that’s very unfortunate. But the US is far less likely to go full bore ethnic-nationalism than a country in Europe or Asia. And I think Brexit is more alarming than Trump. Though Trump should serve as a wake up call about the dangers of pure democracy.
They aren’t. They no longer exist. The Republicans control it now, and they want a despotism. There’s no more checks and balances, just an unhindered march to tyranny.
Let’s say you’re right. What’s the wise move then? Leave the US. But I don’t see an exodus. Why’s that? Why wouldn’t all those who are going to Auschwitzed just move somewhere else? Why are people moving to the US? My guess is that some of these fears are a bit overblown. I could be wrong. And perhaps I should let my tan fade to be on the safe side.
Because it’s been barely over a week, they haven’t taken office yet, and plenty of people are in total denial.
Cite?
Assuming no last minute shenanigans happen (executive order from Obama, Trump decides he ultimately doesn’t want to be president) & the electoral college goes for Trump, we will see the beginning of some right-wing rule in the US.
Liberal cities will remain liberal though, as they did when Bush was in office.