It’s Like This, Cat*

Imagine if a presidential candidate went to NYC and held a rally celebrating 9/11 and having a choir sing an anthem to it. With a big crowd cheering it on. https://t.co/xaLPe77TEt

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) March 27, 2023

Trump is always making clear-as-a-bell racist and xenophobic statements.

Feels like not enough people are acknowledging Trump essentially held an pro-domestic terrorist rally over the weekend…going to Waco on the 30th anniversary…to celebrate the January 6th insurrection.

— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) March 27, 2023

Even though neither Maggie Haberman, nor any other journalist, will say so (it took months after J6 before they used “lie” and “Trump” in the same sentence), no one is confused about Trump’s racism, antisemitism, or xenophobia. I mean, look at who he surrounds himself with.

Which White House staffer was unethical and depraved enough to write this monstrous lie of a tweet? Biden eradicated our border, surrendered our sovereignty to murderous terrorist cartels, smuggled millions of aliens into the US, and unleashed a nightmare of suffering and death. https://t.co/9g7dbjotGc

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) March 27, 2023

It's all about the brown people. Not even El Paso, which is overrun with asylum applicants, has been surrendered to "murderous terrorist cartels." Stephen's just afraid of the non-white people under his bed.

Burchett's foreign policy knowledge is absolutely embarrassing. He thinks US troops are in Syria fighting the Taliban. pic.twitter.com/LQQKorv3yH

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 27, 2023

Well, they're all furriners in the Middle o' the East, ain't they? What's the difference. Ain't Murika!

Nobody imagines these people having such public platforms absent Donald Trump.

So can we please stop looking for new and insidious dog whistles for Trump to be blowing? He wasn’t subtle about J6 in Waco, and he wasn’t subtle about praising Putin and Xi and damning every prominent non-Trumper politician in D.C.  He also wasn’t subtle in NEVER MENTIONING KORESH OR THE BRANCH DAVIDIANS, and yet his silence and his choice of venue was a subtle call out to McVeigh supporters everywhere? And if he goes to Dallas and stays miles from Dealey Plaza is he silently praising the assassination of JFK and blowing a dog whistle for Q Anon?

The guy’s a dangerous ass. We get it. We don’t need more reasons to be afraid, be very afraid. Overemphasis starts to water them all down. He’s a racist. He’s a misogynist. He’s xenophobic. He’s a pig. We get it. You don’t need to turn his every action into a new sinister plot to destroy life as we know it.

In fact, the only real news anymore is that he hasn’t changed a bit. And that’s bad news enough.

*Title of a book I remember from my childhood. Probably would be called “YA” today. Probably banned today, too, for teaching children to talk to animals, or something.