The Trump Campaign Endorses a Racist Theory
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The Trump campaign’s post yesterday about the “Third World” went beyond Trump’s known obsession with migrant crime to highlight an embrace of the “Great Replacement” theory.
An Alarming Embrace
Yesterday, the official Trump War Room campaign account on X posted a picture of a peaceful residential neighborhood, which it captioned “Your Neighborhood Under Trump.” The tranquil image was juxtaposed with a chaotic scene of Black and Hispanic migrants who’d arrived in New York last summer, captioned: “Your Neighborhood Under Kamala.” “Import the third world,” the post declared. “Become the third world.”
Subtle it was not. I include the image below, because the reality is even more disturbing than the description:
This racist post is consistent with the tone that the Trump campaign has taken in recent weeks—one even uglier than that of months and years past—as the former president struggles to gain traction against Kamala Harris. Like Donald Trump himself, the War Room account has a singular obsession: It regularly highlights stories about migrant crime, posting pictures of Black or brown men who have immigrated to the U.S. and been arrested. A necessary note: There is no evidence of a migrant-led crime spike, or of higher crime rates in cities with the greatest numbers of migrants. Research suggests that immigrants are less likely than their native-born counterparts to be arrested. Trump and his campaign’s obsession with crimes committed by migrants—and their relative silence on other dangers Americans face, such as mass shootings—speaks for itself.
The drumbeat seems to have gotten louder this week. Yesterday, the War Room account also reposted a clip of a Fox News segment about a Haitian migrant charged with raping a child, adding, “Life under President Trump: Increased child tax credits. Life under Kamala Harris: Increased child rape.” The list goes on and on .
None of this is new for Trump, who has a long and well-documented history of racist remarks, and whose campaigns have been built on stoking fears of migrants. Indeed, migrant crime has been a consistent Trumpian theme since he came down a golden escalator in 2015 and declared: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best … They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” As a candidate in 2015, Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” and according to The Washington Post , he referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” while president. “Why do we need more Haitians, take them out,” he said, according to Washington Post sources who were briefed on a bipartisan meeting on immigration. Trump later denied using the term shithole , but has continued to emphasize and exploit misleading charges about crime committed by immigrants.
Trump has never backed off. His campaign is now pushing that same line, but with a grotesque twist. They are hammering on the theme that it is Trump’s Black female opponent who is responsible for all of this supposed chaos. “Kamala Harris IMPORTS rape and plunder into our communities,” another Trump War Room post declared yesterday . “President Trump will END this carnage and DEPORT these illegal aliens back to where they came from.”
Perhaps even more worrying is that the “neighborhood” post went beyond Trump’s fixation on migrant crime to highlight his campaign’s embrace of the “Great Replacement” theory —the fear that Black and brown migrants will displace white Americans in the voting booth, the workplace, and a neighborhood near you. Once confined to the white-nationalist fringes, the theory was popularized in part by the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who said in 2021 that “the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World.”
Now Trump’s own campaign is amplifying these fears of a “Third World” takeover. Trump has taken his racism far beyond a dog whistle, and as even a cursory scroll through the War Room account shows, his campaign is not attempting to hide it.
The problem with liking Trump is all your senses unabashedly lie to you.
that 2nd picture is the line of those hopefuls waiting to be chosen to get a new tee shirt and a $100 gift card to sit in the bleachers behind trump holding a blacks for trump sign at a recent rally...
Hell! The Trump Campaign IS a Racist Theory
straight up christo-fascism...
this is so blatant I doubt you will see many of the magas on this seed
the ones that wanted to defend it lost their tiny nuts somewhere in the shag carpet next to the recliner...
You could be right. Most are smart enough to know it's about illegal immigrants NOT some drummed-up, twist and turn it into racism bullshit.
Please. The photo of the immigrants is filled with black faces, scary male black faces. Please dont tell me you think that was a coincidence.
Are they illegal immigrants or not? And the one person taking a drink in the foreground is far from black.
Waldo is not black?
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maybe this will help...
I grew up in a working class Irish neighborhood on the south side of Chicago during the late 50's and 60's. That is effectively the same thing as saying I know what "white flight " was. One year the block was all white and a couple years later my family , which rented (my parents couldnt easily find an apartment they could afford that would accept a family with 5 kids) was the only white family left on the block.
Telling people that their neighborhood will fall to scary black and brown people is what the slimy real estate people did to impressionable people who thought they needed to run away. Chicago is largely so segregated for that exact reason.
It's called 'redlining' and was made illegal but is still practiced under the radar in many States.
Discrimination Seeps Into Every Aspect of Home Buying for Black Americans - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
The Ghosts of Housing Discrimination Reach Beyond Redlining | Urban Institute
Redlining and Environmental Racism (umich.edu)
I think one of the roots of the problem is that there are still many who don't consider themselves racist but believe things like "they should have their own neighborhoods". It's an "us" vs "them" instead of everyone just being an American and being treated with the same respect regardless of skin color, education levels or income.
I believe John Oliver devoted an episode of Last Week Tonight to this issue. It is 'on the books' in a lot of places, legal to discriminate against African Americans
Is anyone surprised by this?
trump might as well torch a cross every night in front of mar-a-lardo ...
Whatever it takes to appeal to democrat voters.
Former democrat voters. Those kinds of democrats switched parties over the last forty years which is why all those formerly democrat majority southern States are all deep red now. The racists didn't move, they just switched parties.
23 maps that explain how Democrats went from the party of racism to the party of Obama | Vox
Map 13 is very telling but they all tell the story of how racist white conservatives abandoned the Democratic party because their party was abandoning their racist ideology.
The most racist cities are in democrat control, and blue states so that bullshit about them becoming republicans is a lie.
If you want to spot the racists? just ask yourself who thinks minorities can’t compete for jobs or college education without their help. Or who thinks racial makeup is a qualification for anything but playing a historically accurate role in a movie or play.
What's racist are those who think just saying "Okay, black Americans can apply for whatever jobs they want now, racism is fixed" without acknowledging the legacy effects of discrimination and segregation that continue to plague our nation. You can't just say "Well, black Americans can be doctors and lawyers now, no need to do anything else." while ignoring the fact that generational wealth, home equity and high salary's of parents and grandparents are what most often enable youth to qualify and be able to afford medical school and law school. It's like saying "Okay, sure we let all those white kids and white families get a few centuries head start financially and educationally, but now that we opened the discrimination and segregation gate, I'm sure black Americans will catch up eventually on their own without any further help, and in fact, helping them out, giving them a hand up or making exclusive room for them in the workplace or colleges would be racist!" Yeah, that's exactly what fucking piece of shit racists would and are claiming proving we haven't really moved that far towards equality with scum bags like that running things. Just another reason we need to kick these worthless deplorable bigots to the curb in every election.
A lot of people are not built to understand what you are saying.
I've seen many racists and bigots try and claim that because we now see wealthy black Americans and those who are doctors, lawyers and professors that means we don't need to do anything further without acknowledging that those success stories are often the direct result of affirmative action. And we still have a LONG way to go to get to any sort of financial equality.
" There are more billionaires in the United States (735) than anywhere in the world. Though the number of US Black billionaires has increased from one to nine in about 20 years, the rise of the Black billionaire has done nothing to bridge wealth inequality. In 2001, when Johnson and Chin broke the billionaire color barrier , the median wealth of an African American family was about $15,000 according to Dr. Edward Wolff’s research . White median wealth was 10 times that, a little over $150,000. By 2019, median white wealth had risen to $160,000 while Black household wealth had shrunk to $9,000. What had been a 10-to-one median wealth advantage for whites leapt to about 18-to-one in less than two decades."
" According to the Forbes 2023 Richest People in America , no African Americans are even in the top 50 wealthiest Americans and several African American billionaires don’t even qualify for the wider Forbes 400 list."
The Racial Wealth Divide and US Black Billionaires » NCRC
... trump nailed to the cross.