Esquire (Opinion)
By Charles C. Pierce
May 25, 2018
Yes, he is an angry, racist bag of sins. Yes, too much of his staff is made up of racist bags of sin. Yes, too many of his supporters are angry, racist bags of sin. Yes, too many of the people in his political party are perfectly fine with angry, racist bags of sin. The evidence is now too ridiculous to ignore. From The Washington Post:
The night before Trump delivered his first speech to Congress in February 2017, he huddled with senior adviser Jared Kushner and Miller in the Oval Office to talk immigration. The president reluctantly agreed with suggestions he strike a gentler tone on immigration in the speech. Trump reminded them the crowds loved his rhetoric on immigrants along the campaign trail. Acting as if he was at a rally, he then read aloud a few made up Hispanic names and described potential crimes they could have committed, like rape or murder. Then, he said, the crowds would roar when the criminals were thrown out of the country — as they did when he highlighted crimes by illegal immigrants at his rallies, according to a person present for the exchange and another briefed on it later. Miller and Kushner laughed.
Of course, they did. Because they belong in the reptile house.
Kelly grew so angry during the June meeting because he thought the president was uninformed, and he later told associates that it was a staffing problem and a reason he was willing to become the next chief of staff. “The president deserves better,” a White House official said, describing Kelly’s reaction. As Trump harangued Nielsen for more than 30 minutes in front of the Cabinet this month, other aides grimaced and fidgeted. Nothing she said seemed to calm the president, according to people familiar with the meeting. “We’re closed!” Trump yelled at one point, referring to the border.
He doesn’t get to say that for the rest of us. He doesn’t get to say that for all of us. He doesn’t get to trash decades of the country’s commitment to the world just because it gets him applause from the nervous goobers who flock to his rallies. We are not closed. He does not speak for the nation. And he never should.
On Friday, the Motherland held a referendum on a provision of the Irish constitution that forbids abortion in most circumstances. The campaign had been a long and noisy one. As was the case in a marriage equality referendum a few years back, members of the Irish diaspora from around the world came home to vote, a development that filled me with hope.
For years, Ireland has been trying to shake off the remnants of what was in many ways a practical theocracy that developed when the Republic was taking shape between 1920 and 1949. (Irish historian Liam Hogan put up an interesting thread on the electric Twitter machine that demonstrates what the situation was like in the early years, with some truly awful maneuvering from Eamon de Valera.) The constitutional provision against the right to choose would be the last serious relic of that age to fall.
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