So Trump is at it again. His most recent racist trope is that Rep.
Ilhan Omar (an elected-Representative, with a majority of the popular vote cast,
who just happens to be, literally, an African-American) "hates America." This is the Trumpian version of the Leader
Principle (otherwise know historically as the "Fuerher Princip"): "If you don't agree with
me [on policy, e.g., national health insurance; practice, e.g., how to deal
with asylum-seekers, or whatever] you are not a "true American" and "you hate
your country." This is the latest in the
Trumpian string of episodes racist /fascist rhetoric and practice that I wrote about last week (and actually
began writing about, as noted in that column, back in 2011). Although there are a few Repubs. here and
there who have taken exception at one level or another to what Trump has been
laying out there in doses of increasing intensity, most are either staying silent,
or supporting/excusing him, like the Dominionist, oh-so-principled, Mike Pence and Trump's Josef Goebbels imitator Stephen Miller did.
Well, is what Trump is doing right now anything
new? Is it a sudden violent departure
from traditional Repub. policy? Well,
no. In fact, the xenophobia part has
been in the genes of the Republican Party since its beginnings. Millard Fillmore was the 13th President
of the United Sates, and the last Whig to hold that office, succeeding to it upon
the death of Zachary Taylor. Denied his
party's Presidential nomination in 1851 he joined the American Party (otherwise
known as the "Know-Nothings") and became their Presidential candidate that year. His party was known for its violent (sometime
literally) antagonism towards the Irish (Catholic) immigrants who had been
fleeing a very poor homeland since the 1830s, a flow that only increased with
the Potato Famine in the mid-1840s.
Fillmore became one of the founders of the Republican Party and brought
his "know-nothingism" with him, where it festered over the years.
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Source: OpEdNews.com
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