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Trump Ramping up Racism

               Donald Trump’s racism was put on display the day he came down the escalator in Trump tower and announced his candidacy for president.

               Trump launched his campaign in 2015 by calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” who are “bringing crime” and “bringing drugs” to the US. His campaign was largely built on building a wall to keep these immigrants out of the US.

As a candidate in 2015, Trump called for a ban on all Muslims coming into the US. His administration eventually implemented a  significantly watered-down version of the policy.

Before the campaign, and long after the Obama “birther” argument had been proven wrong, Trump kept up the attack, claiming he had not seen the birth certificate, although it was easily accessible.

Tendencies were exposed with his leanings toward the white nationalists in Charlottesville.

Recently he renewed charges about his racism when he attacked four congresswomen of color, telling them to go back to where they came from, when three were born in the U.S.A. and the fourth is a naturalized citizen.

And even more recently he attacked Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings, calling him a racist and charging he had done little to help Baltimore with its’ challenges.

Trump is a narcissist. Narcissists often use a technique of accusing someone of a characteristic which they themselves exhibit.  They do not see the quality in themselves, but see it in others.  Thus, Trump calls Cummings a racist.

Another characteristic of narcissists is they feel they are never wrong.

The Baltimore Sun has struck back, writing: "it’s not hard to see what’s going on here.  The Congressman has been a thorn in the President’s side and Mr. Trump sees attacking African American members of Congress as good politics, as it both warms the cockles of the white supremacists  who love him and causes so many of the thoughtful people who don’t, to want to scream. President Trump bad-mouthed Baltimore in order to make the point that border camps are “clean, efficient and well run,” which of course they are not – unless you are fine with all the overcrowding, squalor cage and deprivation to be found in what the Department of Homeland Security’s own Inspector – General recently called “a ticking time bomb.”

In case you think there are no hiccups in the economy, agriculture officials will soon be dispensing another $16 billion in farm aid to farmers hurt in the trade war with China.

Local food banks are benefitting from the farmer’s plight, receiving large shipments of peanut butter and rice to dispense.

And – on July 25^th, Mitch McConnell blocked two bi – partisan bills from getting a vote to help secure elections from foreign influence.

He went so far as to say that even simple things like using paper ballots and increasing funding for election security were “partisan” measures that would give Democrats a “political benefit” in the 2020 elections.

The “Ditch Mitch campaign says the fact McConnell won’t even allow  a vote on these commonsense measures to protect our elections is proof enough that he is aiding and abetting Russia and their still on-going attempts to undermine and attack our Democracy.   It’s un-American – plain and simple.