But this isn’t remotely what he’s doing.
Hell, in many cases, the xenophobia he’s stoking is manifesting in isolationist trade policies which will harm the US economically.
No. His racism, and his intentionally courting racists, is what makes him racist.
To be clear, I’d generally categorize him more as a xenophobe than a racist… but they’re pretty much the same thing. It’s essentially just some attempt to scapegoat some group of “others”.
Building a wall is STUPID… and the fact that the stupidity is overlooked, is largely based on racism/xenophobia. Their fear of immigrants blinds them to how absurdly bad and wasteful an idea it is. Just like it blinded them to how flat out retarded the idea “Mexico will pay for it!” was.
“umusual” is an overly nice way of categorizing what I would describe as overtly idiotic things. He’s an idiot. He says stupid things, without considering the repercussions, because throughout his life he has never had to deal with any negative repercussions from anything.
And this has made him into an utterly immoral man. Hell, he doesn’t even grasp the most fundamental aspects of normal human lives. Remember when asked what sacrifices he’s made throughout his life, and he cited his successes in business? And when given a chance to clarify, he repeated it? The man has lived such an utterly priveleged life, in every way, that he literally does not even grasp the concept of sacrifice.
How is his action prudent and practical? No syrian refugees have committed any acts of terror in the US… and yet you will abandon them. You are turned into a coward, out of fear of a phantom, and allow that cowardice to force you to abandon your morals.
This is what separated a leader like Reagan from a monster like Trump. Reagan believed not that we should turn inward and only care about Americans. Reagan believed that, as Americans, it was our duty to be a force for good in this world. The fact that you have lost your way to the extent that you’ve forgotten such things, is disgraceful.
What’s even more absurd, is that while banning immigration from some countries under this nonsensical security theater, he doesn’t ban it from countries his company does business with… like Saudi Arabia, which actually produced all of the most successful terrorists in our nation’s history. But they’re fine! That’s quite a definition of “prudent” you have there.
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The world has taken advantage of American generosity and, in many cases, actively work against us even when receiving our aid. We are too involved in worldly affairs (which most liberals agree with), so let’s back out and let other countries deal with their own problems unless it is directly in our dire national interest to be involved.
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Again, you’ve lost your way. You’ve been cowed by fear, stoked by people like Trump, such that now you’ve abandoned all of your principles. You’re left with nothing but fear.
If you had stood by conservative principles, you’d remember the futility of the path you’ve now been led down. How economic isolationism won’t actually improve your economy, it’ll harm it. How America is a force for good, not a selfish bunch of cowards. Or at least, we used to be.
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Liberals keep saying that Trump is a dictator and a fascist. Where is the proof for that?
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His constant attempts to tell boldfaced lies to the American people, and then castigate the media when they simply point out the lies. The fact that he’s actually gone so far as to straight up declare that the press itself is the opposition party. The fact that he is dividing people up based on their religion.
And this is day FIVE dude.
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He assembled a terrific cabinet and, surprising most of you, is showing signs that he will listen and even defer to their expert opinions.
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Dude, no he hasn’t.
He’s got Mattis, who is probably the one hope we have, until he resigns… Because unlike Trump, Mattis has a genuine love of this country. He will always put its welfare before his own. He is the anti-Trump in this way.
But he won’t be able to stop Trump’s other disasterous policies.
What other awesome trump cabinet members are their? All the goldman sachs guys? Tillerson, who refused to acknowledge Russia’s war crimes, and is in bed with Russia? Flynn, who is hilariously idiotic, and is ALSO totally in bed with Russia? DeVos, who lacks any credentials at all in terms of educational experience, and is nominated ENTIRELY due to the fact that she has donated hundreds of millions of dollars?
I mean, where’s this awesome cabinet? Trump certainly TOLD you it’s awesome. That’s the line… but these folks, with the exception of Mattis, are not awesome.
