White Nationalist Rule Is Already Here
White Nationalist Rule Is Already Here
Donald Trump is considering pardoning Joe Arpaio for his illegal reign of racist terror.
By Mark Joseph Stern AUG. 15 2017 5:50 PM
One day after the alleged murder of Heather Heyer, the president told Fox News that he was considering a pardon for Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, who was recently convicted of criminal contempt. Arpaio, Trump said, “has done a lot in the fight against illegal immigration. He’s a great American patriot and I hate to see what has happened to him.”
During his 24-year tenure as sheriff, Arpaio proudly strove to implement white nationalism through a brutal assault on Maricopa County’s Latino population. His barbaric tactics included extreme racial profiling and sadistic punishments that involved the torture, humiliation, and degradation of Latino inmates.
Courts repeatedly found that Arpaio violated the United States Constitution, but the sheriff often ignored their efforts to rein him in. There are few more potent symbols of mainstream white nationalism than Arpaio. Taken together with Tuesday’s unhinged press conference, Trump’s praise of Arpaio proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the president has made common cause with white nationalists.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/08/donald_trump_is_considering_pardoning_former_sheriff_joe_arpaio.html
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