James Angus
Jul 28, 2017 · 2 min read

Trumpelstilskin

Surely the verdict is is. Trump is the worst President this country has ever elected. And yet, his supporters still back him. His support, for the appalling mess he has made of the job he was elected to, for dragging America’s reputation down into the gutter, should be in single digits, because there will always be some stupid people out there. But for Trump to still have 40% support is incredible and appalling. His supporters have no standards, OR, more likely, they like what he is doing. And what he is doing more than anything, is being a nativist, populist, racist asshole. He groups people together and condemns them holus bolus: Mexicans, Muslims, Arabs, any group that does not look like an overfed New York real estate developer is in trouble.

He is also now telling police to smack people around when they are arrested, “Don’t teat them too nice”, as he says in his ungrammatical English, despite having the “best words”. The cruelty of American police is already on display: shooting blacks with impunity and now starting in on the white immigrants. Now the Dear Leader wants to beat people up when arrested or picked up. The concept of innocence prior to being proven guilty has gone out the window, and his people love it. The rule of law, an American icon since the country’s birth is being swept away like Trump’s ridiculous hairstyle.

His supporters are predictable. They are either mouth-breathers, or they are racists, the self-satisfied, those who want to make sure America cuts the hands off those reaching for a piece of the American pie that they are already taking slices of. These people are not kind to anyone except their own little group. Seeing the police beat up those less fortunate than themselves is what they like. Cowards all, they want to see all this on their tv screens so they can tut-tut and feel safe.

Trump has made 30's style racism acceptable again among those who were proto-fascists anyway. The nastiness in American life is fashionable again. The Jim Crow ideas are coming out of the closet and with Betsy deVos leading the way with the racist dog whistle of school choice, a whole new generation of thoughtless racist assholes is being raised for this country.

O America, o mores.