{UAH} George Conway: Trump is a racist president
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That is the title of this Washington Post op-ed, up now for tomorrow's print edition.
Conway's wife might now live in DC and work for the occupant of the Oval, but he is listed as a New York Lawyer and has been increasingly critical of the Donald, especially on Twitter, but increasingly in other venues as well.
Conway begins with an incident that involved his mother who had immigrated from the Philippines decades before the incident where, when he was three, he heard his mother told to go back from where she had come.
He explores his own wrestling with both the issues that those who had no connection with slavery having negative reactions to some of the efforts to ameliorate the racism and discrimination that was a part of our history, and of the increasing evidence of Trump's expressions of discrimination, xenophobia, and — yes — white supremacy and racism.
You really should read the entire piece.
The guts of this piece — and the gut punch it delivers — is found in the final four paragraphs, the first of which is this:
No, I thought, President Trump was boorish, dim-witted, inarticulate, incoherent, narcissistic and insensitive. He's a pathetic bully but an equal-opportunity bully — in his uniquely crass and crude manner, he'll attack anyone he thinks is critical of him. No matter how much I found him ultimately unfit, I still gave him the benefit of the doubt about being a racist. No matter how much I came to dislike him, I didn't want to think that the president of the United States is a racial bigot.
That's just the set-up.
So without further comment, here is the next:
But Sunday left no doubt. Naivete, resentment and outright racism, roiled in a toxic mix, have given us a racist president. Trump could have used vile slurs, including the vilest of them all, and the intent and effect would have been no less clear. Telling four non-white members of Congress — American citizens all, three natural-born — to "go back" to the "countries" they "originally came from"? That's racist to the core. It doesn't matter what these representatives are for or against — and there's plenty to criticize them for — it's beyond the bounds of human decency. For anyone, not least a president.
it's beyond the bounds of human decency
Yep. Absolutely.
In his penultimate paragraph, which I will not quote, Conway takes the Republicans who have remained silent to task, making clear that he views it as an act of cowardice.
But it is his final paragraph, with its clear dismissal of ANY rationalization (judges, tax cuts, etc.) for supporting Trump, that rings loud and clearly, and absolutely sounds the appropriate alarm:
But none of that is good enough. Trump is not some random, embittered person in a parking lot — he's the president of the United States. By virtue of his office, he speaks for the country. What's at stake now is more important than judges or tax cuts or regulations or any policy issue of the day. What's at stake are the nation's ideals, its very soul.l.
What's at stake are the nation's ideals, its very soul.
We, all of us, need to make this very clear.
What kind of nation, what kind of society, are we willing to be?
What then does it require of us, ALL of us?
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