Okay, I give up. A million years ago on this blog, I tried out the theory that Donald Trump was not exactly a racist. It seemed to me that the "them" in his "them or us" was not black people or brown people so much as it was non-successful people. Even if there's some truth to that, it's becoming a distinction not worth making. Forget I ever mentioned it.
Of course, the other "them" in Trump's world is anyone of any color or financial status who doesn't serve the needs of Trump's greed and ego, genuflecting to him, going along with the delusion that he's accomplished more than any prior president in his first year, burying lyin' Hillary in the popular vote…and hey, how about those record crowds at his inauguration? And also, I see the guy who couldn't serve in the military because of bone spurs is now telling us what a great athlete he was in college.
Here's some other stuff that might interest you…
- Dylan Matthews reads Trump's interview with the Wall Street Journal so you don't have to.
- Matt Taibbi reads Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff so you don't have to.
- German Lopez lists some good reasons to believe Trump has always been some sort of racist.
- William Saletan looks at the talking points that Trump repeats over and over (there's been no colluson, there's been no collusion, there's been no colluson, there's been no collusion, there's been no colluson, there's been no collusion…and did I mention there's been no collusion?) and concludes that he doth protest too much.
- And Paul Krugman reminds us of some of the brilliant, rational things done so far by the Very Stable Genius.
A source tells me that Stephen Colbert's staff is working very hard to try and get Trump aide Stephen Miller on their show. If they aren't, they should be.