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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

The Vile President

NY Times: With Tweets, Videos and Rhetoric, Trump Pushes Anew to Divide Americans by Race - President Trump is leaning hard into his decades-long habit of falsely portraying some black Americans as dangerous or lawless. And he is doing it during one of the most tumultuous periods in decades. By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin
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3 comments:

Mark said...

Divide and conquer baby. It's a working strategy that you can't count out. We can only hope it doesn't work this time.

10:05 AM
Jim Sande said...

The country has grown in some ways since the late 60s. Back then this kind of thing was very much part of the societal culture, now it is a vestigial semi useless thing, although it still is very much a nuisance.

10:42 AM
Mark said...

We HAVE built on the enormous cultural changes from the 60s and can never go back to pre civil rights, integration, women's equality, etc.

BUT we are the same flawed human beings and have the same primal fear of "the other". In good times, it IS vestigial, but in current times -- when we are encouraged to be our worst -- it is plentiful and easily exploited.

The times article says: "...the president is exploiting racial divisions in a way that appeals to only a segment of his party." Well I hope that segment isn't enough this time.

2:13 PM

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