His "big beautiful wall" is the great lie, a metaphor for hatred and separation

[kpete]

Published on
Sunday, February 17, 2019
by Common Dreams
Trump Is Our One-Man National Emergency

byMichael Winship



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Trump’s birther claims remain, in the words of my colleague Bill Moyers, “one of the most malignant and ugly lies in American history” and are representative of a deeper disease in our country, a “perfect storm,” in the words of Johns Hopkins University’s Christopher Lebron, “of basically, white paranoia, white fear of an era of possible black liberation and justice.”

Lebron said that in a Bill Moyers video essay on birtherism, posted on Inauguration Day 2017 at the Moyers website. It's just as true today. In that same video, Hamilton College government professor Philip Klinkner added, “I think for many Americans, the whole definition of America is caught up with race: [the belief] that whites are the only people who have the requisite characteristics that would allow them to be full citizens and therefore the political leaders of the country.”

Such racial fabrication and delusions of white superiority were at the heart of Trump’s presidential campaign – from his birther bilge to those Mexican rapists – and subsequently have reignited in so many of the lies and misrepresentations this president has inflicted on the country since he took the oath of office.

Yet there are few so heinous as the great lie and metaphor for hatred and separation of them all, the “big, beautiful wall” for which, he says, we need to call a national emergency.

There is no emergency. Trump said so himself when he told the press on Friday, “I didn’t need to do this.” He just wants a wall to please his white nationalist base, to feed his edifice complex and insatiable appetite for attention.

You know as well as I: The real national emergency isn’t refugees of a different color trying to get into the United States. It’s the white guy sitting on Pennsylvania Avenue with too much “executive time” on his hands.



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[EndGOPPropaganda]

1. Of course this is true. Thanks.

If CNN and MSNBC and the NYT has been shouting this from the rooftops, as they should have been, since 2016, we’d be done with Trump by now.
(It would be better even if Fox and Limbaugh and the WSJ were saying this, but I have no hope for those propagandists and liars. But legitimate media could have done it themselves.)

[MrScorpio]

2. Appealing to white superiority is what got Trump elected

Anyone denying that fact is just deluding themselves.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. A big, fat K&R!