How Trump Exposed Americas White Identity Crisis

[Civic Justice]

Trump's greatest legacy will be that he forced us to confront racist demons we thought were mostly behind us.

That’s the tragedy and blessing of Trump's rise to the top of the Republican Party. He brought into the mainstream the kind of race hatred that had flourished only in the shadows before he came along. But his presence also removed the scales from the eyes of sane Americans who had held onto the belief that the election of our first black president had ushered in a post-racial society.

Trump’s most enduring legacy, and it is an oddly beneficent one, is that he taught America how bigoted it still is, and that many among us who are not intentionally bigoted are willing to tolerate racism anyway, given the right circumstances and stakes.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/trump-race-white-america-identity-crisis-214178

He kicked off his presidential campaign by heaping hate on Mexicans and Muslims, immediately shooting to nearly the top of most Republican primary polls.

That' tells the real story of Republican System and its Mentality.....

The truth laid out before he became elected By ISSAC J. BAILEY August 22, 2016


Thanks goodness the reality has also EXPOSED the Right Wing White Evangelicals.... their hypocrisy is beyond what society thought it would eventually see.

Republicans thought they could resurrect the early 1900 -1960's.... They even went back and tried the same tactics of the late 1800's; with their continued aims to invade the Rule of Laws and Convert the Justice Systems back to the madness that gave us Plessy v. Ferguson, (case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws.)
He and his Republican system and their ignorance of trying to go back and invoke some madness like the Dred Scott v. Sandford, also known as the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law. ... The decision was only the second time that the Supreme Court had ruled an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional. His appointment of Right Winger on the Supreme Court and trying to fill our Federal State Courts with Right Wingers. Which is a direct act of trying to attack minorities and dire poor whites and immigrants, by using the Justice System. This is the vile of the man and his party and its supporters.


Republican of today will never be like the Party of Lincoln, nor the Party of Teddy Roosevelt....

NOW, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TAKES UP THOSE VALUES....
We need a "DEMOCRATIC Teddy Roosevelt" of this day and age... to bust up the big industry and move ahead with Equality for All.
http://www.blackpast.org/1905-theodore-roosevelt-lincoln-and-race-problem

Teddy Roosevelt said:
Neither I nor any other man can say that any given way of approaching that problem will present in our times even an approximately perfect solution, but we can safely say that there can never be such solution at all unless we approach it with the effort to do fair and equal justice among all men; and to demand from them in return just and fair treatment for others. Our effort should be to secure to each man, whatever his color, equality of opportunity, equality of treatment before the law. As a people striving to shape our actions in accordance with the great law of righteousness we can not afford to take part in or be indifferent to oppression or maltreatment of any man who, against crushing disadvantages, has by his own industry, energy, self-respect, and perseverance struggled upward to a position which would entitle him to the respect of his fellows, if only his skin were of a different hue.

Every generous impulse in us revolts at the thought of thrusting down instead of helping up such a man. To deny any man the fair treatment granted to others no better than he is to commit a wrong upon him - a wrong sure to react in the long run opon those guilty of such denial. The only safe principle upon which Americans can act is thatt of "all men up," not that of "some men down." If in any community the level of intelligence, morality, and thrift among the colored men scan be raised, it is, humanly speaking, sure that the same level among the whites will be raised to an even higher degree; and it is no less sure that the debasement of the blacks will in the end carry with it an attendant debasement of the whites.

The problem is so to adjust the relations between two races of different ethnic type that the rights of neither be abridged nor jeoparded; that the backward race be trained so that it may enter into the possession of true freedom while the forward race is enabled to preserve unharmed the high civilization wrought out by its forefathers. The working out of this problem must necessarily be slow; it is not possible fin offhand fashion to obtain or to confer the priceless boons of freedom, industrial efficiency, political capacity, and domestic morality. Nor is it only necessary to train the colored man; it is quite as necessary to train the white man, for on his shoulders rests a well-nigh unparalleled sociological responsibility. It is a problem demanding the best thought, the utmost patience, the most earnest effort, the broadest charity, of the statesman, the student, the philanthropist; of the leaders of thought in every department of our national life. The Church can be a most important factor fin solving it aright. But above all else we need for its successful solution the sober, kindly, steadfast, unselfish performance of duty by the average plain citizen in his everyday dealings with his fellows.

[IluvPitties]

1. Trump just normalized bigotry.

We need a lotta healing to do.

[sharedvalues]

2. The GOP is at fault, not just DJT. Remember Neshoba Cty?

The modern GOP is an alliance of billionaires (who pay for tax cuts for billionaires), and voters courted with identity politics, fear, and hate. The voters are useful idiots for the GOP billionaires.

Since Nixon’s Southern Strategy and Reagan at Neshoba Cty, the GOP has turned up racist-courting during elections to get votes and tried to tone it down between elections to court moderates. But in the past 20 yrs the GOP built a propaganda machine to push divisive identity politics to get votes for billionaires.

And DJT allied with the propaganda machine. He is pushing pro-billionaire policies and going after the GOP base with hateful division - just like Fox and Limbaugh and Breitbart and Reason and Cato and Heritage want - he’s just more open about it.

The GOP propaganda machine fanned the flames of white resentment. This is the fault of GOP billionaires like Koch and Murdoch. DJT is merely their instrument.