NYT Op Ed again "The Real Meaning of "Send Her Back"

[NRaleighLiberal]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/opinion/trump-rally-send-her-back.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

(most important are the very end words)

Mr. Trump appears to see the presidency as a giant megaphone for stoking racial and ethnic animus. It is not just that he pursues policies aimed at exacerbating divisions, like banning migrants from majority-Muslim nations or building a wall on the United States-Mexico border. He seeks to demonize those who oppose his policies as dangerous extremists out to destroy America. In cases where his critics are not white — whether congresswomen of color or a judge of Mexican heritage — Mr. Trump is eager to spotlight that fact.

The president is looking to divide Americans along color lines, to conjure a zero-sum vision of America in which whites must contend against nonwhites for jobs, wealth, safety and citizenship. He thinks this approach will win him another four years in the White House. At this point, does it much matter if he is acting purely out of political cynicism, with no element of personal prejudice? The rage he is nurturing and the pain he is causing are all too real. The damage he is doing will take years to undo.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. They got it right, my dear NRaleighLiberal!

I agree with every word, esp. the last ones.

It's hard to know if we will ever undo all the damage he has done or caused. Does the broken bone ever lose its scar?

[gratuitous]

2. Buyer's remorse at the Gray Lady?

The Times sat on their story of the Bush administration's domestic spying on citizens all through the 2004 campaign because they didn't want to affect the election with an inconveniently timed story about one party's lawlessness. They had information about Russian interference with the 2016 election, but downplayed it in favor of Hillary Clinton's e-mails. Then, when James Comey dropped his bombshell in the week before the election, the Times couldn't resist billboarding that salacious little tidbit even after Comey decided that maybe Clinton wasn't in so much trouble after all.

Two and a half years into the Trump administration for which the Times assiduously laid the groundwork for more than a decade, they finally realize that there's some real damage being done to the country. I wonder if this will cause a recalibration of the Times' reporting with a slightly more critical eye toward Trump's racism?

[iluvtennis]

6. Well stated.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Doubt it. They want $$$ and that seems to be about it.

[Hekate]

3. KnR

[dalton99a]

4. Trump is destroying the country before our eyes, and no one is stopping him.

[PSPS]

5. Our system is broken. White house + McConnell equals unstoppable abuse

[TalenaGor]

7. I just can't believe they cannot grasp any concept that can't be summed up in three short words....

That's literally all they got.....

[King_Klonopin]

9. The people who voted for him wanted him to vandalize the government,

just as he promised them he would do.

If old-guard, white supremacists can't have their country all to themselves,
then they will burn the mutha down...

[nilram]

10. Generations