There’s maybe a handful who actually have disavowed trump. For most, it’s obvious that his racism and fascist attitudes weren’t why they left.
They left because they were getting inconvenient pushback long after it became unmistakable that trump is a huge bigoted swollen asshole on our democracy.
Day late, dollar short. Not my fault that the republicans are so often stupid and/or evil.
So Trump comes from a German family, his grandfather (Drumpf) was a German immigrant … any idea if his father (the apparent clan supporter) was a member of the German Bund (the US grown prewar fascist movement)? are there historical membership records available?
The video below should be cued up to just a tiny bit after Republican analyst Gianno Caldwell emotionally reacted to President Trump’s disgusting reversal of his mild censure of his base. This happens after Professor Wendy Osefo has a similar reaction as the liberal guest. This is the point, the point i have it cued up to, the point at which two black commenters from either side of the political aisle, … this is the point at which the host jumps in with “Oh, of course, free speech”. I can’t tell you what happens in the rest of the video.
sadly, i bet you’d see a lot more diversity in the working class folks who maintain and clean the places these entitled rich people pretend to work in. they just don’t qualify to be in the room for the photo, because classism and racism. smdh.
most places like this have several classes of workers, and are somehow blind to that harsh reality.
Man, that’s a powerful clip. I’m tearing up right now. It’s super fucked up that this is even a conversation we can have. I have little biracial kids. Thankfully, they’re unaware of this. I’m not sure how I would talk about it. My wife and I make it a point to be as honest as possible about things, but how can you be honest about this without making them think the world is a deeply horrible place.
I know that a lot of people have been called “racist” for so long and with so little reason that it more or less doesn’t register any more. Including me, and I’m only half white.