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Trump was not simply attempting to delegitimize a black president but rather the advances that made one possible:
In 2011, the year Donald Trump became the standard-bearer for the racist campaign to challenge Barack Obamas citizenship, he didnt just lob conspiracies about the Presidents birthplace; he also questioned how Obama gained admission to two Ivy League universities. I heard he was a terrible student, terrible, Trump remarked, to the Associated Press. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? Im thinking about it. Im certainly looking into it. Let him show his records. Coming just two days before Obama released his long-form birth certificate, the attack on the Presidents educational background tipped Trumps hand. He was not simply intent on delegitimizing the first black Presidency but also the processes that made one possible in the first place.
This broader theme was easy to miss in the scrum of last years campaign, as duelling perspectives debated whether economic anxiety or populist racism was the more active ingredient in Trumpism. Trump likely understood that this was always a false dichotomy. The dominant theme in the history of American populism, from the days of Tom Watson through those of George Wallace, is that resentful whites understand their economic status not in absolute terms but relative to the blacks whom they perceive as the true barometer of their standing. The question is not whether C.E.O.s have salaries hundreds of times larger than their own but whether black people have salaries comparable to theirs. The forces that have ravaged the American working classes were set loose four decades ago and were turbocharged by the end of the Cold War, but it took two terms of a black Presidency for much of this public to recognize that its fortunes were in a tailspin. Until 2008, this group had lacked a static landmark against which to measure whether it was moving backward or forward. Obama became that.
Thus Barack Obama and Donald Trump dont simply represent successive Presidencies; they personify rival genealogies of our current moment, warring claims to history. Where Obama built a movement to shake off the dead hand of history, Trump was hoping to reanimate that hand and clench it into a fist.
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BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)They are two things:
1. Racist/sexist
2. Pro authoritarian/thuggish
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,794 posts)Trump
http://www.eduinreview.com/blog/2010/09/donald-trumps-educational-background/
After high school, Trump attended Fordham University for two years. He then transferred to the Wharton Business School, where he graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a concentration in finance.
After I graduated from the New York Military Academy in 1964, I flirted briefly with the idea of attending film school, Trump wrote in his book Trump: The Art of the Deal. But in the end, I decided real estate was a much better business. I began by attending Fordham University
but after two years, I decided that as long as I had to be in college, I might as well test myself against the best. I applied to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and I got in
I was also very glad to get finished. I immediately moved back home and went to work full time with my father.
Trump has enjoyed many financial successes during his career. He recently created an online university to share his keys to success, which is called Trump University.
Obama
http://www.eduinreview.com/blog/2008/09/barack-obamas-education-background/
High School:
Punahou School
Honolulu, HI
Graduated in 1979
College:
Occidental College, 2 years, no degree
Columbia University
Bachelors Degree in International Relations
Graduated in 1983
Harvard Law
Juris Doctorate (J.D.)
Graduated in 1991
Magna Cum Laude
See the difference.
CincyDem
(6,416 posts)And if you don't think that is the guiding mission of the republican tribe, you aren't paying attention.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)yesterday. Couple of pointy noses gossiping at the Grocery Store.