Donald Trump’s Campaign of White Resentment Comes to Life Before Our Eyes
It’s not like this has been subtle so far, but the white male resentment that fuels Donald Trump‘s rocket ride at the top of the Republican primary polls has thus far managed to escape the attention of media types both mainstream and liberal, many of whom continue to insist that Trump’s appeal is that of an “outsider.”
This weekend, though, that secret sauce came to vibrant life, as if some children found a magical silk hat and placed it on a racist snowman. At a Trump rally in in Birmingham, Alabama (Birmingham!) a #BlackLivesMatter protester was assaulted by Trump supporters who chanted (and I’m not kidding) “All Lives Matter!”
Trump has just greenlit the use of violence on anyone who gets out of line at one of his rallies, and it will not be long before it happens again, only maybe worse next time.
Trump seems to understand the opportunity his supporters have presented him with. Trump has mostly channeled the resentment of his followers at Mexicans and Muslims thus far, but after his approving response to the violence at his rally, he took extra-special aim at black people, tweeting an overtly racist graphic about crime statistics that featured a side-gunning black thug:
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The statistics themselves are, of course, all wrong, and sourced to the non-existent ““Crime Statistics Bureau – San Francisco,” but that’s barely even the point. The graphic originates from the Twitter feeds of Trump’s hardcore racist “Cuckservative”-coining supporters. What’s significant is that this is the most open Trump has been about embracing their racial “realist” brand of white resentment, and the reason is clear: it sells. What you are seeing now is the opening up of a new front in Trump’s War on the War on White People, and a distillation of the secret sauce that has flavored Republican politics for decades. Maybe now the media will start to notice.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/donald-trumps-campaign-of-white-resentment-comes-to-life-before-our-eyes/
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