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Mentioned this on Chris Hayes show earlier. One of the bizarre things abt Trumps racist squad tweets is that not only does the governments own workplace anti-discrimination manual invoke just this “go back to your country” language. But I suspect any member of Congress ...
2/ who tweeted the same stuff wouldn’t actually survive it. The House GOP caucus has essentially deplatformed Steve King for his various racist remarks. But it’s hard for me to think of anything King has said or written - and we’ve been following him for years - that’s worse ...
3/ than what Trump tweeted over the last few days. Think about it. I think if some GOP senator had tweeted this stuff he likely wouldn’t have survived it or at a minimum would be roundly denounced and forced to apologize. So what we’re seeing here is not only the ...
4/ white nationalist grievance politics that Trump has made explicit and open and at the core of today’s GOP. There’s also, just as much a “leader principle” dynamic at work. If Trump says it the GOP will fall in line behind him. Really no matter what. In a way what we’re ...
5/ seeing here is more the authoritarianism than the racism, though of course it’s both.
6/ Like all personality cult political movements, party/movement ideology is what the leader is saying on that given day. And the limits of the acceptable or standards of behavior are simply what he does. Period.
