'The people with power in this country have made their choice—over and over again. And we are all living through the consequences.' Calling on Donald Trump to denounce white supremacy is a fucking joke
These denunciations of white supremacist violence are hollow. This is obvious, and has been obvious for years. They are merely a nod to decorum. The president, by virtue of the office,give a speech to “heal” the nation, even as he stokes white supremacist violence and further encodes it into our laws.
both elevated their party and Trump to the presidency and has animated every choice he’s made since he took office is laughable. But the problem goes much deeper and beyond our current president—the El Paso gunman, after all, made a point to note that his beliefs predated Donald Trump’s ascendance. White supremacist violence has been at the core of our country since before its founding, a thread that continues to this day with the racist, nativist ideology of the Republican party, one that the Democrats have been unable to effectively counter . There’s no speech or resolution denouncing white supremacy that course corrects decades of Republicans—
—stoking racist hatred about supposed immigrant “hordes” radically remaking the United States. The people with power in this country have made their choice—over and over again. And we are all living through the consequences.
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