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In reply to the discussion: CNN finally says it: The real reason Trump is so dead set on crushing Obamacare [View all]ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)According to and essay Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote for The Atlantic, it is this:
Trump is at his core a White Supremacist. Which means that black people are only fit for menial and subservient positions in society. Certainly not the Presidency! So Obama becoming President blows that belief right out of the water, and negates everything Trump has believed all his life. He has to obliterate this anomaly and Make America Great Again--which means, of course, make an America made up of only white people's talents and ideas and hard work. Because only then it can be truly great.
He further believes, then, that any idea of his, no matter how half-baked, has to by definition be better than his predecessor's. (He's always been convinced that he's a genius). And his base feels the same way--rid America of this tragic error in history! And that is exactly how and why he was ever elected. He promised to Make America White Again.
This essay was in the Oct 2017 Atlantic, but is excerpted from his new book, We Were Eight Years in Power. I have learned so much reading this guy's work. Especially because I am white and don't have the benefit of his perspective.