New York Daily News (Opinion)
By Shaun King
October 15, 2015
I hear people in my closed circle of friends — almost daily — call Donald Trump a joke.
I get it.
For
decades we've all laughed at his gaudy gold home, his orange hue, his
hair, his puckered lips, his faux seriousness on reality TV, his guest
appearances at Wrestlemania,
but I think we've crossed a point where we can safely say that Donald
Trump and his candidacy for President of the United States are no
laughing matter.
Brand
new polls show him actually surging up to 36% in the early primary
state of South Carolina. He more than doubles his next competitor, Ben
Carson, and has between
four and 10 times the support of nearly every other candidate there.
The Donald has also surged up to 38% in the early primary state of
Nevada and is pretty much crushing all of his competitors there not only
in the basic poll, but on every single issue, including
leadership, the economy, immigration, national security and more.
I don't find Trump or his candidacy funny at all, actually.
To
great applause, he is telling audiences that as President, he would
forcefully "round up" and send back over 15,000 undocumented immigrants
per day (that's more than
450,000 per month) and drop them off far away from the American border
until every single undocumented immigrant is gone. If this doesn't sound
horrifically similar to Nazi Germany to you, then maybe Trump is your
man. But when I hear it, and when my Latino
friends hear this, we are absolutely appalled and frightened.
As
The Donald harkens back to the forced deportation plan of President
Eisenhower, which was literally called Operation Wetback, he is silent
on the tens of thousands
of human rights violations, including hundreds of brutal deaths, that
took place during this ugly era.
Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump leaves the stage after a campaign
rally at the Richmond International Raceway in Virgina Wednesday.
It's
disturbingly easy, though, for millions of Americans who know they will
never be mistakenly swept up or abused in the New Operation Wetback to
let pollsters know
Trump has their undying support.
For
nearly a decade now, Trump has gone to great lengths to question the
American citizenship of President Obama. Evidence be damned, he had a
hunch, and he's the type
of man that trusts his gut. In fact, it appears that it is this very
hunch, of questioning the core humanity of President Obama, that
initially so endeared Trump to millions of ultra conservative Americans.
President Obama feels, looks, and sounds so different
to them that he must not be born on this continent, right?
It's
patently absurd, but white supremacists openly adore Donald Trump. One,
who openly used racial slurs toward African-Americans, wants to name an
entire white town
after Trump.
To doubt a Donald Trump candidacy is to doubt the existence of hate in this country. The hate is real and so is he.
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