found online by Raymond
From Patrick Holman at The Moderate Voice:
It wasn’t too long ago that many of us believed the United States, finally, was moving past its ugly and hurtful past of slavery, inequality, and injustice. But, for black Americans, the consequences of our history are still apparent, and they’re consistently amplified by the man sitting in the White House who casually throws around racist and ethnophobic tweets and comments. Because of Donald Trump’s leisurely approach to race, racism today stands tall and continues to loom over us.
Donald Trump has long dealt with issues of race.
Millions of authoritarian followers refuse to see anything but a messiah in the narcissistic, malevolent misogynist. They embrace him despite his betrayal of our country by bending his knee to Putin. They embrace him despite his open racism. They refuse to see his criminal behavior.
The one thing we learn from his MAGA Cult is how easily Germans were enthralled by Hitler.
The cult’s devotion is not from a patriotic love for our country. None of this is love for anything. It is all wrapped in lies and ignorance, with resentment, fear, anger, and hate for others.
This authoritarianism is the inevitable fruit of modern American con-servatism and far Right propaganda. The electoral college has proven to be the fatal flaw of our experiment in democracy.
A few of us saw it coming with the 2000 election and the Bush/Cheney war of aggression, torture, detention without charges, and surveillance state. Trump and his white nationalism have taken us closer to fascism than ever imagined.
His rallies are just the American version of Nuremberg and “Triumph of the Will”.
A spineless corporate-infused Democratic Party will not pull us from the brink. Either they change dramatically in the opposite direction of the Party of Trump, or the American Republic is finished.
Dave does make some indisputable points.
Trumpsters love him for who he hates.
Ethnicity and race are at the core.