Unrepentant Bigotry
The Unexamined Life
The Despicables hate the Deplorables.
“If by now you don’t find Donald Trump appalling, you’re appalling.”…
I regret almost nothing of what I said about the man and his close minions. But the broad swipe at his voters caricatured them and blinkered me.
It also probably did more to help than hinder Trump’s candidacy. Telling voters they are moral ignoramuses is a bad way of getting them to change their minds….
When I looked at Trump, I saw a bigoted blowhard making one ignorant argument after another. What Trump’s supporters saw was a candidate whose entire being was a proudly raised middle finger at a self-satisfied elite that had produced a failing status quo….
It was an experience compounded by the insult of being treated as losers and racists —clinging, in Obama’s notorious 2008 phrase, to “guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them.”
No wonder they were angry….
It’s somewhat amusing and somewhat irritating to read such bigoted accusations of bigotry. On closer examination I’m mystified. He seems to have no self awareness at all.
But it’s just a performance. He doesn’t ever speak truth. He’s anti-truth. This is supposed to be persuasive. The objective is to rehabilitate himself for the crimes he has been committing for many years, so that he can continue to be criminally persuasive in future.
To this day, precious few anti-Trumpers have been honest with themselves about the elaborate hoax — there’s just no other word for it — that was the Steele dossier and all the bogus allegations, credulously parroted in the mainstream media, that flowed from it.
A final question for myself: Would I be wrong to lambaste Trump’s current supporters, the ones who want him back in the White House despite his refusal to accept his electoral defeat and the historic outrage of Jan. 6?
Meet the new hoax, same as the old hoax.
Meet the new bigot, same as the old bigot.
When will we read the non-apology for the debunked current hoax? Why does anyone still maintain the pretense?
It all makes sense when viewing the conflict as competition between organized crime families. It’s omerta. He has married the mob in hopes that the mob married him back and will continue to protect him. The system seeks to evade, delay and reduce penalties for criminal conviction. Everyone knows that they do the crimes, but the whole justice system is in on the crime, gets a cut of the proceeds, feasts on the carcasses of the lower classes that result from the crimes. It’s not enough to know that they are criminals. They will never face punishment unless the system is disrupted.
That’s the reason that they fear Trump and hate his supporters. They could ruin the whole criminal organization. The normie Republicans and Democrats are variations on a theme. Trump is an outsider, an alien, a true threat.
Ruining the criminal org sounds great, except that it is a competition between bands of sociopaths. Defeating the current gang won’t eliminate criminal activity, it just changes the players.