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Take his early record of housing discrimination. Or his noxious comments about African American employees. Or his central role in fostering the cynical racism of the birther movement. Or his toxic comments about Mexicans or Muslims. Or his “outreach” to blacks by stereotyping blacks and characterizing black communities as cesspools of violence, drugs and murder. Or his grotesque tweet exploiting the death of Dwayne Wade’s cousin by gunfire in Chicago as confirming his portrait of black lives.
In contrast, his clumsy labeling of Clinton as a “bigot” fell flat. If he was trying to characterize Democratic policies toward African Americans as cynical and self serving, he is too ignorant to make the point. And tarring Clinton as a racist, bereft of evidence, serves only as a reminder of who Trump is a racist prone to groundless accusations.
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Similarly, his speech on fighting ISIS interspersed new absurdities among the old ones. He would bar immigration from countries which breed terrorism. Who? Germany, France, Belgium or all three? He promised “extreme vetting” of immigrants including probing inquiries as to whether the applicant believed in things like honor killings, presumably prompting a wave of confessions from buy canada goose jacket guilt stricken would be terrorists. He pledged to evaluate other countries based solely on their help against ISIS, ignoring a host of areas such as global warming and nuclear proliferation where we need the assistance of governments with interests of their own.
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But nothing captured Trump’s intellectual and emotional twitchiness better than his multiple feints on his core issue, immigration.
In the primaries, that was how he made his bones as a wall building, Mexican deporting, America First hardliner. And he loved it so much that he conjured a “deportation force” to perform the impossible task of kicking out all 11 million undocumented immigrants. And anytime a rally became too decorous to sate his need for adoration, he would put up the wall again and demand to know who would pay for it, provoking his rapturous fans to feed the beast by shouting “Mexico!”
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For Trump, this must have been hard to take. He’d only been having fun, after all and it was lots of fun! Still, the idea of getting slaughtered was surely painful. So what was an egotist to do?
No one seemed to know not Trump, not his team. In one semi incoherent day Trump suggested that he was “softening” on mass deportations, then appeared to reverse himself. At length it was announced that Trump would clarify all in a speech to be given in Phoenix.
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Thus, after all of the confusion, obfuscation and hints of a new direction, nothing much had changed not the tone, or the appeals to racial resentment, or the insatiable craving to foment mass anger and frenzy. The GOP’s die was cast: their candidate was unwilling, or unable, to kick the hard line canada goose coats which had won him the primaries and which, in all likelihood, would precipitate his defeat in November killing off other Republicans in the bargain.
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