"In the theater of modern power, racism is rarely an accidental outburst; it is a tactical retreat. Historically, when a leader’s back is against the wall—facing plummeting approval ratings, disastrous job numbers, or the looming shadow of criminal evidence—they return to the most reliable well in the American psyche: the politics of division."
~ Danielle Moodie
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/magas-addiction-to-hate-why-trumps
"Sometimes his posts are so revolting that I can’t just let them pass. The loathsome sociopath in the Oval Office has to be held accountable. ...
The White House blamed an unnamed 'White House staffer' for it.
But you and I and anyone who has paid attention to Trump’s outbursts of bigoted offal over the past months knows it came from him.
~ Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/is-it-unkind-to-describe-our-president
"Three observations.
First, even Republican senators and representatives are now unafraid to publicly accuse Trump of being a bigot. That’s progress.
Secondly, when congressional Republicans make a ruckus, Trump backs down.
Third, this incident adds to the accumulating evidence that Trump is losing his mind."
"It has always been those who do not have the target on their back that wanted to tell us that we were making much ado about nothing. And the reality is that this is how we got here, because instead of mainstream corporatized media calling from jump when Donald Trump came down that escalator in 2015 and said that Mexicans were rapists and and thugs and criminals," (continued in /9)
~ Danielle Moodie
https://katiephang.substack.com/p/racist-covfefe-from-racist-convicted-d62
(continued from /8)
"instead of them saying this man could never be and should never be president of the United States, they said, Isn't it great for our ratings? Isn't it good for our bottom line? Doesn't he sell a lot of papers? …
The reality is, is that it was never economic anxiety. It was always racism."
"In the theater of modern power, racism is rarely an accidental outburst; it is a tactical retreat. Historically, when a leader’s back is against the wall—facing plummeting approval ratings, disastrous job numbers, or the looming shadow of criminal evidence—they return to the most reliable well in the American psyche: the politics of division."
~ Danielle Moodie
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/magas-addiction-to-hate-why-trumps
For billionaires, the bigot voting bloc is their most reliable go-to resource.
American white supremacists funded Hitler's rise.
UK antisemites like the Duke of Windsor & Oswald Mosley supported fascism.
While they fund Japanese internment camps & "Mexican repatriation" to steal their property in a land grab.
While they orchestrated financial crashes & rip off millions of their savings, farms, & homes.
Billionaires & Bigots; an alliance made in hell.
"While some see these actions as a display of strength or 'doubling down,' they are more accurately interpreted as a sign of profound weakness. It is the act of a cornered figure attempting to incite chaos in the streets to justify the Insurrection Act or to distract from the 'blood in the water' found in legal files and economic failures."
