Politics of Hate category archive

Via the Charlotte Observer, Bloomberg’s Andreas Kluth reminds us to watch what they do, not what they say. Here’s a tiny bit from the article:

Muted yet deafening are the many dog whistles suggesting that American foreign policy under President Donald Trump is at least in part based on race, and specifically on white Christian nationalism.

Aside:

I would have put the word, “Christian,” in quotes. The only part of Christ’s words that these “white Christian nationalists” seem to have read is “Do unto others.”

Speaking of the surveillance state . . . .

Via Job’s Anger.

NJ.com reports on a family whose husband got put on ICE for a decades old missed court appearance, one of which he was unaware.

They were taken aback, as the couple were both Trump supporters who had voted for him three times.

Here’s a bit:

“To think we were MAGA!,” Sandra (the wife-ed.) proclaimed. The couple even attended a Trump rally in Las Vegas in 2020.

Sandra voted for President Trump three times, believing enforcement would focus on people with criminal records — not individuals like her husband.

Asked what she would say to him now, she paused.

“You said you were going after the worst of the worst, but instead you ruined our life,” she said.

. . . and they are especially fiendly if you are flying ICE air. Grung_e_Gene explains.

Kathryn Rubino reports at Above the Law. A snippet:

U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel issued a blistering decision finding that ICE is violating the constitutional rights of immigration detainees held in Minnesota’s Whipple Federal Building and issued a temporary restraining order telling the government to knock it off. Immediately.

“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights,” Brasel wrote in what should be an uncontroversial statement of black-letter law but, well, 2026 makes fools of us all.

LZ Granderson suggests that the way to understand the Trump maladministration’s “war on woke” is to remember that “woke” means to be alert and aware. Here’s a tiny bit from his article; follow the link for his reasoning.

Trump’s self-proclaimed love for the poorly educated has nothing to do with progressive policies or college degrees and everything to do with whom he can convince to believe him. And by making “woke” an insult, Trump and other conservatives have politicized the very tool necessary to help the country fulfill its promise: information.

George Yancy makes a strong case that W. E. B. DuBois was correct when he wrote

We have conquered Germany … but not their ideas. We still believe in white supremacy, keeping Negroes in their place.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

VIa Job’s Anger.

State University of New York professor Richard F. Hamm hears a rhyme from an earlier time when poorly trained, poorly vetted federal agents were released unchecked upon the polity.

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*Mark Twain.

Words fail me.

Writing at The Seattle Times, Mike Ishii reports that he is hearing a rhyme from his own family’s past. A snippet:

This Trump administration has taken the blueprint of Japanese American mass incarceration and weaponized it against immigrants — reviving the same racist logic, invoking the Alien Enemies Act, labeling people “enemy aliens” and “national security threats,” carrying out forced removals, separating families, and overseeing the massive expansion of a sprawling complex of detention sites that mirrors the one used against my family in 1942.

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*Mark Twain.