It’s becoming more and more clear that Trump has no values, no ideals, no standards. He’s only about making deals, and he’s willing to align himself with anyone to make deals, no matter for what, no matter with whom.<\/p>\n
Salon, Amanda Marcotte: Yes, it\u2019s really this simple: Donald Trump is a cranky, obsessive racist<\/a>. Subtitle: “Trump is a simple man driven by a single-minded racist obsession: delegitimizing Barack Obama’s presidency.”<\/p>\n \nTrump\u2019s obsession with delegitimizing Obama\u2019s legacy predates not just Trump\u2019s own presidency, but Trump\u2019s campaign and even his affiliation with the Republican Party. In the endless chaos of our news cycle, it\u2019s easy to forget, apparently, that Trump, a longtime political independent who often donated to Democrats, became fixated during Obama\u2019s first term on a conspiracy theory holding that Obama wasn\u2019t born in the United States and therefore couldn\u2019t be president. …<\/p>\n Trump has a long history of racism and a long history of floating eugenic theories, repeatedly insisting that he must be a genius because of his supposedly good genes<\/a>. Trump is a stupid man who believes whiteness makes him smarter, and Obama\u2019s actual intelligence upends everything Trump thinks he knows about the world.<\/b> This induced an obsession that happened to dovetail with the racist anger of a large proportion of white Americans.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n My bold emphasis.<\/p>\n \\\\<\/p>\n Amanda Marcotte again: White Christians are now a minority \u2014 but they\u2019re getting more isolated and less tolerant<\/a>: Subtitle: “Religious homophobia is driving away young people, but evangelical leaders double down on anti-LGBT bigotry.”<\/p>\n This refers to the Nashville Statement<\/a> of a couple weeks ago, issued by something called the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, which doubles down on basic evangelical insistence of one man, one woman, only in marriage, sexual activity and gender existence. Because Bible — never mind (this is my take, not Marcotte’s) the autonomy of people in a free country not bound by religious dictates, or what humanity has learned about sexuality and gender and family roles in the thousands of years since Bible. <\/p>\n The irony, Marcotte goes on, is that these folks heavily supported Trump. A recurring theme in these days: the hypocrisy of evangelicals.<\/p>\n \nThe white evangelical support for Trump, coupled with the continued denunciation of LGBT people, makes it clear this is not and never was about morality, sexual or otherwise. Instead, \u201cmorality\u201d is a fig leaf for the true agenda of the Christian right, which is asserting a strict social hierarchy based on gender.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s becoming more and more clear that Trump has no values, no ideals, no standards. He’s only about making deals, and he’s willing to align himself with anyone to make deals, no matter for what, no matter with whom. Salon, … Continue reading