Trump tells us to hate all the brown people
It’s Thursday. Trump has four more days to go Even More Racist, but he’s set himself a high bar today.
It is outrageous what the Democrats are doing to our Country. Vote Republican now! https://t.co/0pWiwCHGbh pic.twitter.com/2crea9HF7G
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018
Pinned at the top of President Trump’s Twitter feed Wednesday was a video. The man on the screen has a shaved head and a mustache and long chin hair. Smiling, he announces, “I killed f‐‐‐— cops.”
The man is Luis Bracamontes, a twice-deported Mexican immigrant who was given the death penalty in April for killing two California law enforcement officers in 2014. At the time of the shootings, Bracamontes was in the United States illegally — and now, with the midterm election approaching, he’s the star of the GOP’s latest campaign ad.
“Illegal immigrant, Luis Bracamontes, killed our people!” reads text on the 53-second video, which is filled with audible expletives. “Democrats let him into our country. . . . Democrats let him stay.”
The text is superimposed over videos of Bracamontes appearing to show no remorse for his crimes, and even declaring, “I’m going to kill more cops soon.”
More footage follows: Throngs of unidentified people rioting in unidentified streets and pushing down fences in undisclosed locations. A Fox News Channel correspondent interviewing a man identified only as “deported immigrant in caravan,” who asks to be pardoned for attempted murder.
“Who else would Democrats let in?” the video asks. An image of Bracamontes smiling reappears before being replaced by text, “President Donald Trump and Republicans are making America safe again.”
I watched it. It’s Nazi-level. It’s terrifyingly racist. It’s a national emergency.
This may be the most desperate and vile ad since Willie Horton. Trump and Republicans don't want to talk about the fact that they plan to repeal the ACA, gut Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid, and cut taxes even further for their donors, so they've resorted to fearmongering. https://t.co/xaXNThEOfb
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) October 31, 2018
To all the Republicans who think that words don’t matter, who rationalize support for the president because of judges or tax cuts, who insist that domestic terrorism is unrelated to normalization of virulent racist rhetoric and who remain silent believing they have no moral responsibility for this brand of politics, I would say this is reason enough to vote, as my colleague Max Boot has suggested, against each and every Republican on the ballot. We have not seen individual Republican candidates, let alone House and Senate leaders, denounce the ad or insist that Trump take it down. Silence is assent. And therefore each one deserves the ire of decent voters.
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To Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Lou Dobbs, Fox shareholders, Fox producers and Fox executives and other on-air Fox personalities, I would say that this is in large part your doing. You’ve spent years drumming up fear of immigrants, misrepresenting the danger they pose, blurring the line between criminals and noncriminals (including “dreamers”) and sending dog whistles — no, make that trumpet blasts — to the white nationalists. I would say to you that Fox is not a news organization but a source of material and affirmation for the worst elements in our society, a small sliver of whom become violent. It’s not a place where reputable news people should want to work, nor a network that advertisers should support or viewers should indulge.
This country is falling off a cliff.
I would say not yet.
But it is hurtling down a steep mountain road with loose gravel all over it, vertical drops off each bend and no safety fences; in an Oldsmobile Constitution Straight-8, with dodgy brakes and one tyre damned near flat, and with an egomaniac at the wheel who keeps shouting aloud that he is as good as any racing driver on any circuit you can name, and that any local cop who tries to stop him has to be a crook.
Apart from that, the country might be said to be in good hands.
A week after, in three separate terrorist attacks, 11 Jews and 2 African Americans were murdered, and several Democrats and other public progressives were the targets of (fortunately unsuccessful) pipe bombs, Trump is promoting a video claiming that he’s “making America safe” for “our people”.
Yeah, no racism here….
I like Robert Reich, and he’s a smart guy, but he’s crazy to say this is the “most desperate and vile” ad since the Willie Horton one. This ad is much, much worse.
The Willie Horton ad highlighted real policies that were idiotic (giving murderers with life sentences weekend furloughs). They actually released violent criminals who hadn’t served their sentences out into the public. That was a really stupid thing to do.
The Democrats do not have a policy to let violent immigrants into this country. They do not have a policy to let violent illegal immigrants stay. This ad is a vicious slander.
But…”our people” means Trump voters. Everyone else has no right to be safe. Anyone who doesn’t love Trump is obviously an illegal immigrant (like the Native Americans they don’t want to let vote in North Dakota).