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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Hayes Blasts 'Well of Evil' That Fuels Trump's 'Dark Sorcery of Racial Hatred'
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Even if not one drop of blood were ever shed in pursuit of it, it would still be anathema. It will still be a force to be conquered and banished, Hayes continued. What is the it Im speaking of? Well, to quote a phrase, You know it and I know it. Its the well of evil from which our president draws and has drawn from the first day when he said Mexico was sending rapists to the U.S., presumably with the explicit intent to defile Americas women, the dark sorcery of racial hatred that conjures invasions and infestations out of desperate fellow human beings seeking refuge. An exultant hatred, a hatred wrapped in a joking, not-joking smile and a cowardly irony, in a pause at the podium that let the crowd hurl its bile. Hatred echoed in the refrain of death squads and war criminals and fascist mobs throughout history as they wield the club and the pistol and the machete: Youre invaders. You are animals. You are a disease. You are a threat to us and you will not replace us.'
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Donald Trump knows what hes doing, Hayes said. Everyone hears the president loud and clearly when he speaks. He tells his followers they alone are the heroes of the this countrys history. Theyre threatened by their fellow countrymen and women who live in cities, by the desperate mothers and babies in flip-flops that he separates in pens, by those who call their God by a different name. Time and again, time and again, this nation must answer the question: Who is it for? Who America is for? And the simple answer time and again must be it is for all of us. We welcome the stranger. We pursue justice. We act as equals in the collective enterprise of democracy. The president and his party stand on the wrong side of that question right now. They have long since disqualified themselves from the support of decent people by doing so.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-hayes-blasts-well-of-evil-that-fuels-trumps-dark-sorcery-of-racial-hatred-in-blistering-monologue/
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Myrddin
(327 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)The party of Guns Over People won't read it, but they should hear it.
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)Hayes fails to add that the Republican party has been flirting with racism and the vile politics of Donald Trump since Nixon's time. The "silent majority" in Nixon's time were moderate to conservative White people. Reagan railed againt "Welfare queens in Cadillacs and Young Bucks eating steak dinners" and continued the war on drugs started by Nixon. Reagan helped to make MS-13 a deadly force by shipping them to El Salvador where they got training in the civil war that Reagan helped to pour gas on by training and equipping right wing death squads. Bush Sr. ran the "Willie Horton" ads. Bush Jr. helped to vilify Muslims even as he defended them, by focusing on Islamic Terrorism and ignoring White nationalists here. The republicans have been blowing the dog whistle of racism and xenophobia for 50 years. Trump is just the mask come completely off. To not mention that, and focus only on the carnival barker misses the big picture.