You know what scares me most about Trump’s latest outrage? It’s not that he described other nations as “shitholes.” It’s not that he said we shouldn’t allow immigration from such countries. It’s not even the deep, toxic racism of his policies.
Those are all plenty frightening, but what’s got me most in a sweat is the evidence that no one, least of all Trump himself, has control over what Trump says and does.
There are those on the left and right who say he’s being strategic: shoring up his base with the occasional blatantly racist comment. But the people who love this comment don’t need shoring up, so if it is a strategy, it’s a bad one. Again: he is not in control of himself.
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January 13, 2018 at 9:12 am
Andrew Hidas
So many things to be terrified about as we careen through this past year, among them the even more terrifying thought that there will be three more of them. What strikes me perhaps most about this latest is the blithe way he sees fit the next morning to casually deny he even said what multiple people testify they heard. Nothing he says matters even one whit to reality as is; all of it is completely untethered to anything he may have said before or since. The implications of this are yet to be fleshed out over the long term, their damage to our nation currently incalculable.
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