Whose Side Are You On?

It’s interesting to me that the possibility that donors could pressure Trump to step back from the racist ledge isn’t even ventured as a hypothetical in this scenario.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 7, 2019

Right on cue comes Joe Scarbrough:

If your business funds Trump’s campaign, then you are supporting white supremacy.
Full stop.
Look at his rallies.
Listen to the chants of “Send her back!”
Hear the calls of “Shoot them!”
Your money funds that.
Your business supports that.
You are complicit.

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 7, 2019

I would ordinarily be a bit bothered by this.  I'm not anymore.  Politics ain't beanbag, and Trump is worse than George Wallace or Strom Thurmond or Jesse Helms, because he's the POTUS, he has the bully pulpit.

And we have to stop tolerating this.  Period.  Because it really is as simple as this:

The current president of the United States rose to political prominence thanks to a conspiracy theory about America’s first black president, then launched his campaign by calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists. Month later he proposed to ban Muslims from the country. https://t.co/uV5p2luvwQ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 7, 2019

And this:

Her husband was at the community pool and a group of white men said they thought the killing went too far but they agreed with some of the stuff the shooter stood for, like making sure whites aren’t wiped out and Hispanics take over. This was in the ruby red city of...Los Angeles

— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) August 6, 2019

And this:

A story I’m sharing with permission from a young Latina pic.twitter.com/bLuu8anEXp

— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) August 6, 2019

Whose side are you on?