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Ivan G Thompson
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The Making of A Great America Made in the Image of TRUMP
Religion & Spirituality
Author Insight
"America's Most Wanted" MAGA Candidate
Trump Rap sheet: Candidate jokes about grabbing women by the genitals and is later convicted of sexual assault. As president worsens the pandemic by actively discouraging the use of masks. Is impeached for withholding military aid to Ukraine, which may have prevented or delayed Russia’s invasion. Tells black US-Born congresswomen “to go back to the countries they came from” and displays a fondness for Confederate monuments. Cozys up to the Proud Boys and later unleashes a mob led by them on the Capitol. Tries to coerce the Vice President not to certify the electoral college results and doesn’t help when the VP’s life is threatened. Calls the Attorney General and Governor of Georgia and asks them to “find votes.” Destroys Hillary Clinton’s credibility over some classified emails but later, after leaving office, took highly classified materials and kept them unsecured in his house. Attacks Senator John McCain after his death and delays flying flags at half-mast over the Capitol. Is convicted of paying hush money to a prostitute and cooking his business books. Why would anyone vote for Trump in 2024? Conservative justices dominate the Supreme Court. Which likely would have happened under any Republican president. What is Trump’s greatest appeal? It is and always has been MAGA. A vision of a throwback America where rights were determined by country of origin and/or skin color. Tim Scott says America “is not a racist nation,” but it is still enamored with MAGA sentiments and “America’s Most Wanted” MAGA candidate.
Book Excerpt
The Making of A Great America Made in the Image of TRUMP
This is an excerpt from the chapter entitled "Trumps Vision of America":
President Trump had sold them on a vision of America in which people of color could sit comfortably on a second-tier or go back to the countries that they came from. The President had either succeeded in reshaping the values of many evangelicals or by exposing the values they already had. In either case, his leadership influence on them was clear for all to see.
I know that all Republicans and evangelicals do not share the president’s views. However, very few that disagree with him come forward to challenge him publicly.
“Millions of Republican voters do not agree with white supremacy, but they delude themselves when they ignore this rotting core of their party. One cannot simply brush off Confederate symbolism, race baiting and incitement of White militia as “just Trump talking” any more than one can pretend the post-election shenanigans are anything but an effort to disenfranchise Black voters so that White votes control the outcome. There is no “But Gorsuch” or “But tax cuts” or “But religious liberty” that justifies this behavior — akin to Whites of the 1950s saying they were not for segregation, just “states’ rights.”
Many pundits are pleading for the nearly 80 million people who voted for Biden to try to understand those who did not, but it is time to implore the less than 74 million who voted for Trump to take off their rose-colored glasses, confront what is at the core of the Trump movement and reject White grievance and Black disenfranchisement. Unless they do, there will be no healing, no reconciliation and no multiracial democracy.” (Rubin, 2020)
Being comfortable with this vision of exclusivity is a form of racism. It's a twisted world view that says that people that look like me deserve to dominate the American political, economic, and even spiritual leadership landscapes. Implied is a superiority complex tied to race and national origin. Embedded within, undergirding this exclusionary mindset is the long-enduring lie that one race of people built America.
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