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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Performative Cruelty

Donald Trump is an objectively horrible human being.  His primary mode is to attack people who offend his sense of self-aggrandizement.  He lies constantly.  He seems to be involved in countless illegal acts as a business man and a presidential candidate.  He is contemptuous of democracy.

But this really strikes home how awful a human being he is.  America has commited ethnic cleansing before in its past.  Most of us thought we had put this sort of aggressively racist and cruel behavior behind us.  We were wrong, because Republicans can't win elections without appealing to the racism of a certain group of white voters who can't distinguish between the people who are actually making their lives worse and brown people.

Tearing a four year old from his mother.  That is Trump's America.

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