Trump was not elected to protect America. He was chosen to protect whiteness.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

There’s a reason why some of President Trump’s supporters don’t fear Russian President Vladimir Putin: Racism is altering their perceptions of what a threat is and isn’t, even at the international level.

The intelligence community has presented Trump evidence that Russia hacked our election, yet he insisted on condemning the findings. He even suggested via Twitter that sworn members of the intelligence community were behaving like “Nazi Germany.”

Trump supporters should have been appalled, but many aren’t. And why should they be? After all, he was not elected to protect America. These Trump backers voted for him because he vowed to be the protector in chief of American whiteness.

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If we aren’t careful, racism will make us vulnerable to the real threat operating behind the Kremlin walls. To be sure, the United States isn’t Putin’s only victim. Russia hacked Estonia in 2007 and Georgia before invading it in 2008. And Ukraine felt the power of Russia’s cyberwarfare in 2014, when Putin deployed his army to Eastern Ukraine, annexing Crimea. Putin has a clear track record of undermining countries abroad, while using nationalist rhetoric to boost his own support at home.

No matter. Russia is not a threat to most Trump supporters. Mexicans, Muslims, blacks and anyone nonwhite, however, are.

The New York Times found that most Trump supporters in Louisiana and Indiana, states he won by 20 points, don’t understand why the Russian interference is a big deal. The report found that several of them flat-out did not believe Russia tried to interfere with the election and that they were drawn to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. One supporter told a Times reporter that if hacking helped Trump win, “I’m glad they did it.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/01/24/trump-was-not-elected-to-protect-america-he-was-chosen-to-protect-whiteness/?postshare=741485295990382&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.75809997a94c

[rzemanfl]

1. When all that is left of your existence is the shadow on the wall showing where you were standing

when the nuke went off, the color you were a millisecond before doesn't mean a thing.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. He was not elected, period.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Nope including not in those 3 states.