"Donald and others in the Trump Regime have repeatedly leaned into white supremacist imagery and messaging. What was once coded is now increasingly overt.
This was not an accident. This was Donald telling us exactly who he is. And as the adage goes, when someone shows you who they are, believe them."
"He's always had this deeply felt white supremacy and anti-blackness that animates him. And in a moment like this, he will pull that card because he knows that there is a significant portion of his base for whom that works. And the danger, let me be very clear, a lot of people will say, after they stop lying about the fact that this was done, and that it's obviously racist."
~ Tim Wise
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/trump-goes-full-racist-and-refuses
"They'll say, well, you know, it's just meme culture. It's edgy humor. I think that's how J.D. Vance likes to put it."
Robert P. Jones responds:
"All of that is right out of the KKK white supremacist playbook. That is what, and that's the hymnal that the president of the United States is singing from the during Black History Month."
Mary Trump replies to Karoline Leavitt of the ostentatious cross and "smug inhumanity," who attempted to gaslight those appalled at Trump's vile racist attack on the Obamas by saying we should focus on what "actually matters" and dispense with "fake outrage."
"What matters to the American public, Karoline Leavitt, is the fact that the President of the United States of America is an unrepentant, unreconstructed racist who is endangering lives with his blatant racist rants. Obviously, it did matter to someone, because the post was deleted, proving that the outrage was warranted.
This is not an isolated incident, but rather a slice of a broader pattern that has become impossible to ignore."
"Donald and others in the Trump Regime have repeatedly leaned into white supremacist imagery and messaging. What was once coded is now increasingly overt.
This was not an accident. This was Donald telling us exactly who he is. And as the adage goes, when someone shows you who they are, believe them."
"The deafening silence of the Republican Party only emboldens him, pushing him toward ever more overt racism, anti-trans hatred, anti-immigrant cruelty, misogyny, and Islamophobia. Donald is the problem because he has the platform. He is the one whose rhetoric, memes, GIFs, and posts can get people killed."
