Politics of Hate category archive
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Petula Dvorak considers the “Trump effect.” A snippet (emphasis added):
It’s like all of those horrible school integration photos of screaming crowds surrounding black students in the 1960s are being reenacted.
She’s quite correct, you know. I was there. It’s the same mobs, the same hate.
In related news, Der Spiegel looks at Trump and is not amused.
“Measure for Measure” 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Eric Neuman tries to analyze the recent outbreak of SORPE (Sudden-Onset Republican Penis Envy). It defies excerpt; follow the link to read it.
In related news, Glenn Geher explores the “ewwww” factor.
Afterthought:
I reckon we now know for certain what the Republican family values.
Verbal Gymnasts 0
Watch the WSJ columnist assert that the “conservative establishment” (whatever that is) did not do what they have done.
Via C&L.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Key quote:
He’s (Trump–ed.) treated as a celebrity; he’s not treated as a politician.
Playing Trump 0
Tony Norman considers Donald Trump and his no-longer-silent racist dog whistles.
It’s worth a look.
Hint: He’s more optimistic than I.
Video via Balloon Juice.
Dreams in the WitchHouse 0
As I was driving home from dinner with my friend, who had an engagement, I was passed by an SUV (SVU might be more like it) with the word, “T-R-U-M-P,” on its rear window in luminous tape.
That sight would have given H. P. Lovecraft himself the willies.
Afterthought:
My other thought was, “There goes a racist.”
By the company they keep shall ye know them.
American Taliban: Jingo Unchained 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear thinks that the punditocracy is overlooking the central appeal of Donald Trump, even as they clutch their pearls and fall on their fainting couches, in the grip of the vapors at his ungentlemanly behavior.
Mr. Bear believes that uniting Trump’s appeals to bigotry, racism, and xenophobia is an overweening theme of aggressive nationalism*. I urge you to read his full piece; here’s a bit:
About the same time that Mr. Bear was forming his post, Giles Fraser of The Guardian offered his theory as to how Americans who loudly and vociferously proclaim their fealty to Jesus Christ can espouse policies that directly counter his words as reported in the four Gospels:
In short, he suggests that American fundamentalists evangelicals whatever they call themselves today you know who I mean have replaced the Prince of Peace with a God of War–that they have built their own Golden Christ, wrapped in an American flag, carrying an M16, and piloting a Predator drone.
Frankly, I think that both writers are onto something. In particular, it is much easier for persons to change their god than it is for them to change themselves. Christianists (or, as Michael in Norfolk calls them, “Christofascists”) have taken that step.
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*Left implicit is the “white’ in nationalism.
“Their Kind of People” 0
Chauncey Devega thinks that the Republican effort to rebrand their party has succeeded. Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest (emphasis in the original).
By these criteria, the post-civil rights era Republican Party is the United States’ largest white identity organization, one in which conservatism and racism are now one and the same thing.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Duking it out (cough! cough!) in Anaheim:
(snip)
One Klansman stabbed a counter-protester with the decorative end of a flag pole, Wyatt said. That stabbing set off a vicious brawl in which Klan members and protesters fought across an entire city block.
I wonder just what might be going on to that has so emboldened the secesh?
Trump Nation 0
Alfred P. Doblin finds Trumpery chilling. Here’s snippet from his piece:
Counting the Trump Cards (Updated) 0
Dan Morain tries to figure out why persons who should see through con still support Trump. Here’s a bit from the beginning of the article:
Californians have given $208,000 of the $1.6 million in donations of $200 or more, the level at which Trump must disclose donors’ names. Hoping to understand them, I called a bunch of them.
The ones who called back were middle-aged and white, like me, though unlike them, I will not vote for Trump or, for that matter, buy his overpriced ties. Hardly the uneducated rubes who often are the focus of what’s written about Trump’s campaign, his donors include lawyers, doctors, people in real estate and finance, even a few Hollywood types.
Follow the link and try to make sense out what they told him.
When you do, let me know.
In related news, Jeb Lund over at The Guardian offers a theory.
Addendum:
Field nails the inconsistency in the “reasoning” of many Trump supporters (emphasis added):
Supporting Trump because you are ticked off at the world is like shooting wildly into the air. It may be fun to do, but the shells fall back to earth to do harm.
Fueled by Fear 0
Pap and Ed Schultz discuss how fear feeds Trumpery.
There’s the “Golden Mean,” . . . 0
. . . then there’s the Republican mean.
Bigots Reaching beyond the Grave 0
Shorter Minnesota court ruling: Live and let die.