Trump Fans Poor White Dreams of Owning Slaves
Anyone with an ounce of sense and a rudimentary understanding of the law knows that Trump can not take away the citizenship of those born in this country through an executive decree. Fellow Republicans have been quick to inform the literate members of their party--the ones who read the Washington Post and the New York Times--that no president can undo the Constitution unilaterally. Because Republicans who have educations and mortgages and careers and families rely upon the Constitution to protect their property and their jobs and their children's future.
However, those who have no jobs, no home, no education, no future---they have nothing to lose. Their lives are Tobacco Road. And now, suddenly, they have hope. For, if their Hispanic neighbor's citizen children and their Vietnamese neighbor's citizen children and their Indian neighbor''s citizen children are no longer citizens then the children will need American sponsors to remain in the only country they know. That means some American--some white American--will be able to acquire a maid, a concubine, a "boy" to cut the grass, a nanny to watch the kids so that both (white) parents can work. These sponsored aliens will speak perfect English. They will fit smoothly into American culture. And they will have no right to say "no" no matter what sick perversions their white masters practice. They will be the modern equivalent of slaves.
Trumps knows that he does not have the power to strip citizens of their citizenship and force them into serfdom. But he is counting upon some really dumb, really undereducated, really mean and nasty Americans believing that he does. He is peddling a lie in hopes that the desire to be "Massahs" will get them off their asses and into the voting booth--a place they have seldom visited before.
