Trump wants to be sure "the Squad" is identified with the Democrats in general. I think he must feel his best chance at reelection is to get his base to the polls in overwhelming numbers. If that goal is helped by Trump using racism and hate to deliver that vote, then he will use racism and hate. IMHO, everybody should have known it has always been, ALWAYS been, Trump First, not America First. I've about given up trying to comprehend how people could not see this from the get-go, but so it is.
We are a nation of immigrants. We've often been described as a "melting pot" due to that diversity in our origins. We have also experienced several notable periods of anti-immigrant hysteria, against Irish Catholics in the 1850's, against the Chinese, against southern and Eastern Europeans in the late 1800's-early 1900's. Yet despite these episodes, those rejected acclimated to America, and were accepted as our fellow Americans. They became Americans.
Trump's Sunday tweets were fundamentally anti-American. But, those earlier episodes also tell us that intolerance and bigotry are never too far beneath the surface. The last person who should be trying his hardest to bring out hatred and bigotry in Americans, is the President.
Yesterday's tweets probably reflected his fundamental unfitness for our highest office more then anything he has said up to this point.
But, if it energizes his base, that is his only concern.
Consider this: Trump's tweets prove he does not love our country. They prove he loves only himself. He is willing to damage our country and society to the maximim degree in order to save himself. Nothing else matters.
Trump First. America is an afterthought. This was abundantly obvious from the start.
And the silence of the Republican Party proves that Party will ignore overt, in your face, racism on the part of this President.
We are in for the ugliest election cycle in our nation's history.
A president who calls for Americans to hate fellow Americans, based on race, is an abomination. There is nothing that can justify this, not a wall. Not a tax break. Not conservative judges. Nothing justifies this man being the president of our nation.
