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Donald Trump’s Race War Reelection Campaign.
Make no mistake. Trump’s rhetoric towards “the squad” is indicative of a larger strategy.
As so many of us already know, Donald Trump let go of all dog whistles on Twitter, and called for four leftist women of color in Congress to go back to their countries. Putting the fact that they are all U.S. citizens, and only one one was born outside of the country aside, there’s no denying that we were offered a disturbing and telling look in to the re-election campaign strategy of our President.
As disgusting and openly racist as these tweets were, perhaps the most clear indication of how Donald Trump plans to keep the Presidency came at his North Carolina rally a few days later. Over the course of the event, Donald Trump’s supporters broke in to an unchallenged thirteen second chant of “send her back” in reference to Ilhan Omar, while Trump spent those seconds in silence.
Perhaps even worse was the President’s use of the phrase “love it or leave it”.
Love it or leave it.
Let’s take a moment to consider the history of that disgusting phrase, and in North Carolina in particular.
