Mary Trump Blasts GOP, White People, Even Allies Over Sins Of Racism And Genocide
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Ex-presidential niece Mary Trump told MSNBC host Michael Steele that Republicans, White people even allies havent properly dealt with the original sins of racism and genocide.
Mary Trump host of The Mary Trump Show podcast and a strident Trump critic was a guest on this weeks edition of the Michael Steele Podcast for an hour of psychoanalyzing America.
Early in the episode, Mary laid out the contours of the commentary that would permeate the show, to enthusiastic agreement from Steele:
MARY TRUMP: You know this as well as anybody. Donald didnt change the party. He revealed something about it that for various reasons, it was expeditious to keep under wraps. And he also gave people permission. Those who wanted it and were willing to take advantage of it to be there were selves, which is why so many people got pushed out of the party and so many other people like the new leaders of the party, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, decided that it was their time and they werent wrong about this. So just as with Donald, there is history here. And I think this is, this might sound reductive, but I think its absolutely true that the problems that have led us to this existential crisis were facing is that America has never faced its deepest, darkest issues.
MICHAEL STEELE: Yes, now were talking sister. Now were talking!
MARY TRUMP: Right? And its you know, white people dont want to hear this. And even even allies dont like facing this stuff. And I get it. But its its time to own up to the fact that we are here because not only have we never atoned for our original sins. We've never properly acknowledged them and now Republicans want to erase them entirely. And part of that, its not just the original sins of of enslaving an entire race of people and destroying an entire other race of people. But its, its not owning what white people in America have gained from the advantage of white supremacy and white privilege. And I think when you confront people that directly, they get defensive.
MICHAEL STEELE: Yeah. Yeah, very much so.
MARY TRUMP: And thats the problem. Its like, okay, youre not responsible. Nobody here is responsible for what happened 400 years ago. Those people are long dead. But that doesnt mean that we havent benefited from the system that continues to this day to operate in America. And, Michael, I think that more than anything else is what keeps us on the precipice of losing everything. Not because of people on the right, but because people who really do believe in American democracy arent willing to face issues head on because it hurts their feelings or something.
MICHAEL STEELE: That that is that is I mean, Im having a very cathartic moment right now because Ive been trying to make this case for. Probably 25 years of that. And I put it this way, Mary. What ills America? What gnaws in her and her gut? Can never resolve itself until America decides to resolve the issue of Black and white.
MARY TRUMP: Absolutely.
MICHAEL STEELE: Its not about border. Its not about the Asian community. Its not about Hispanics. Its not about the Germans or the French or the Italians who came at the turn of the last century. It has been and it will continue to be about the very intricate and delicate relationship between white people and Black people.
I am a big picture guy more than a detail guy.
The big picture related to this is simple. When Barack Obama announced he was running for president in 2007, we were just beginning to hear from experts in demography that sometime in the first half of the 21st century whites would become a minority group in America. Many were not really processing this, but they did understand that a black president was a "threat" to white "supremacy" in America.
So what happened? The demonization of Barack Obama (and his Ivy League educated wife) through various ugly channels, most notably "birtherism". Delegitimize Obama, the train of thought was. Eventually, prior to 2011 , birtherism had shot its wad and was waning. Then along came someone who was looking for an angle to create a political base with which to run for president in 2012. Enter Donald Trump. He ended up being humiliated when Obama produced his long form birth certificate, and Trumps 2012 presidential hopes were gone.
He bided his time , so to speak, and emerged in 2015 as a Republican presidential contender. Remembering his attempts to get Obama through birtherism, the white nationalists, white grievers, and those who were simply uneasy with the thought of a white minority flocked to Trump and easily made him the nominee.
Trump's base appeal was always connected to race, and still is. So Mary Trump and Michael Steele are not wrong, they are just vocalizing what everyone knows but few will say. Most of our current "social" problems stem from the unresolved racial issues in America, even if they superficially seem to be about something else.
Barack Obama got better press than any President in decades, and came into office with more popular support and greater partisan control of Congress than any President in decades.
That his Presidency failed was his fault given his massive institutional advantages, and his own degeneracy into racialist politics played a large part in it.
This white man voted for Obama twice. His presidency was far from a failure.
His only problem was the far-right wing tea party racists (still is it seems).
The far-right wing racists still hate him for being "an uppity nigger."
I'd vote for Obama again if he could constitutionally run.
He could have been a great president if it wasn't for ignorant rednecks.
Successful Presidents aren't succeeded by President's of another party, especually one as an unpopular as Donald Trump.
he far-right wing racists still hate him for being "an uppity nigger
No, progressives just have a compulsive need to believe that.. It's their whole identity.
Obama had a higher approval rating than any President since Kennedy when he was sworn in. All he had to do was maintain the support of people who already supported him and he pissed it all away.
In 2015 and 2016 Donald Trump retweeted white supremacists numerous times, and then struggled to remember who David Duke was. Trump knew exactly where his bread was buttered and who his base was.
Heil trump
Amazing, you are trying to blame Obama for Trump's election? Hilarious.
More than likely all the racists and white supremacists were not yet organized for Obama's elections, but when they saw a kindred soul as Trump, they all couldn't run fast enough to vote for him.
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Try reading it again.
If Obama were a successful President, a Republican would not have won in 2016. That someone as unpopular as Trump won shows just how much of a failed President Obama was. He couldn't get a successor elected, even against a layup like Trump. Successful Presidents are succeeded by members of their own party.
You use so many words you don't understand. That's not a good habit.
This white man voted for Obama twice. His presidency was far from a failure.
His only problem was the far-right wing tea party racists (still is it seems).
The far-right wing racists still hate him for being "an uppity nigger."
I'd vote for Obama again if he could constitutionally run.