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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe Must Realize That The Trump Base Wants A Purge Of All Minorities Even Citizens.
The Trump base and even the GOP has a purge mentality that really goes beyond just non white and non Christian immigrants. It also is about a political purge of ANYONE NOT voting for the GOP and its agenda. If you can't deport non whites and non Christian citizens make sure they either cannot vote or are sequestered in areas where they have no political power. Gerrymandering, voter purge and voter ID is how they intend to do it by being even more aggressive with suppression. The attack on Maxine waters is just a signal that all decent will be severely punished by the base.
Trump rallies and code to his base is a war on the decency of the country itself. Look at Republicans he is attacking like the Bushes and McCain. He is telling his base to intimidate any Republican they must toe the line ore else. Period. His rallies are like the Hitler rants.
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)Even though we outnumber them
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)Fascism is relentless. It began with Reagan and will swallow everything with Trumpy. Its a destructive sociopolitical disease that will devour its host.
The miracle cure is the already severely crippled election process. But there are too many corrupting factors that can destroy the Constitution. Muellers coming indictments will likely be ignored and the Rule of Law will be suspended for reasons of national security. Thats the logic of the situation.
The GOP cannot turn it around. Theyre all in on the coup. Theyre united with Trumpy. This is a sad and tragic fact.
Cosmocat
(14,575 posts)it is SO CLEAR where this is rapidly heading.
billh58
(6,635 posts)people masquerading as "decent" -- especially among those with a right-wing authoritarian mentality.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)for the Dems
we are the majority we must vote
Locrian
(4,522 posts)trump is destroying the gov and weakening the US - it won't be long until china/russia etc are able to push our economy over the cliff is they want to or need to.
When that happens, it's going to be a free for all fascist dream to consolidate what's left. Possibly with assistance from putin
pangaia
(24,324 posts)I REALLY didn;t believe how bad it is REALLY going to be. REALLY..
Or- didn;t want to believe it.
Since Jan 1.. I REALLY "K-N-O-W" it.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Bush was bad enough but never thought someone much worse then Bush would arise.
Volaris
(10,275 posts)They will label him an 'incompetent new York democratic liberal', and then vote for the 'really really REAL Conservative (probably Ted Cruz, or someone equally distasteful).
It isn't funny, but it IS what his 'base' will do. Mark my words.
Texin
(2,599 posts)The rethugs are not going to do a damn thing about him. He can do anything and they'll all fall in lock step with it, and that includes him suspending the U.S. Constitution and declaring himself monarch or dictator or anything else in perpetuity, with his children and theirs in succession.
DBoon
(22,403 posts)nt
GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)Working on a back door, trying to get another citizenship so I can bail when the sh*t hits the fan.
This election will be the deciding point...
dalton99a
(81,637 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)want pretty white girls, who rather have pretty brown/black men.
Won't work, cause biology.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)before long if we don't get control of congress in November. They are already being indirectly targeted by persecuting relatives, friends, business associates who are not citizens. They make a good target for the hostile aggression of social conservatives because they're less than 1% of the population.
And then of course there's my Jewish husband. Jews are less than 3%, as always a useful target for mobs too cowardly to go after bigger groups.
IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)and they are trying to claim that some naturalized US citizens should lose their citizenship because reasons. They're claiming there were some irregularities in anyone who gained citizenship in the last several years.
I still encounter people claiming I wasn't born here. (I was)
I have my own personal H-1B problem, where people constantly accuse me of being an H-1B. (all American born and raised)
And we continue to see the perpetual foreigner myth play out in the types of people pulled over for random checks by CBP and TSA, as well as discrimination for other parts of life.
The American experience is a little bit different for those of us whose ancestors came from non-European countries.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)FakeNoose
(32,823 posts)Afromania
(2,771 posts)lark
(23,166 posts)He studied Hitler per Ivanna, read his collected speeches every night for 10 years. Now he has the playbook memorized and with the assistance of fascist Putin is putting it into place here. I always wondered how Germany could be turned by Hitler, well that exact same type of people are who loves him here. It's really scary how close we are to having our constitution overturned and becoming a dictatorship - for security sake, don't ya know. After the mid-terms, if russia reupgs steal the election again, expect a false flag significant terrorist operation and the constitution put aside. It will happen if he & the party of traitors stays in power.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...his own personal Concentration Camps.
PEACE!
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)read last year that 45 intended to deport naturalized citizens. I checked it out again because of your post and as of this July 5th, 2018 article: "Surely the Trump Administration Will Follow All the Rules When Stripping People of Citizenship, The new denaturalization task force was last seen during the Red Scare."
Essentially, while the government has always investigated when someone comes forward with a charge against a naturalized American citizen, this is the first time since Joe McCarthy we have a dedicated task force to try to ferret people out. As Jamelle Bouie put it very neatly in Slate, this is simply the latest attempt on the part of Republicansbefore and, with a turbo charge, under this presidentto prevent the browning of America, or at least the American electorate.
But perhaps the most immediately pressing issue is that this administration cannot be trusted to restrict the task force's operations to investigating people who allegedly lied during the naturalization process. Trump's White House has displayed a generalized hostility to immigration best summed up in its proposal to cut legal immigration in half.
And most precisely, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a pattern of arresting people without warrants, denying them due process, and even accusing people of having gang affiliations without evidence in order to detain them. Clearly, this is not an administration whose respect for individual rights or domestic and international law outweighs its desire to remove Certain People from the country. It would be foolish to believe that will change once they start trying to strip people of citizenship.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22061884/denaturalization-task-force-trump-citizenship/
tclambert
(11,087 posts)"What's NATURAL about them? They're foreign. Oh, they swore an oath to be loyal to America? I swore an oath to support the Constitution. Oaths are easy to break. So easy."
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)And that should include his current 3rd wife and her parents, as well as his first wife.
Oh wait....?
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)Whatever that is
Ivana can take her border babies with her.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)They're rubes being fleeced, while Trump himself couldn't give less of a fuck about immigrants. He'll say what he needs to in order to get the cheers he craves.
He probably didn't know there was such a thing as naturalization for people who aren't Trump spouses. This is being driven by someone like a Stephen Miller eager to find every possible way to punch foreigners. While I don't see this as particularly sinister in itself--someone could always have sifted records to find an improper or missing signature--in context I can't help imagining the day when this task force starts seeking out particular political opponents to deport. I'm not sure how this tool gets used to decertify natural-born citizens, but you know the way Trump thinks; he'll wish away every inconvenience, and complain until an underling finds a way to do it.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Extremism in the defense of liberty will be no vice.
47of74
(18,470 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)And include group by group until he and the corrupted wealthy are the only ones left. That's how putin has done it also.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)dhill926
(16,373 posts)and proud of it...
RockRaven
(15,035 posts)The Deplorables really are that sick
FakeNoose
(32,823 posts)So what the hell is it?
kcr
(15,320 posts)Hope enough of us wake up soon.