Trump Ran the Most Racist Campaign in Modern History and Won

Donald Trump, who has been spewing racist rhetoric about Kamala Harris for months and has strengthened his base regarding border invasions and promises to harm millions of immigrants, will once again be the president of the United States.

Despite his naked racism, misogyny, and attacks on his political opponents, the American people chose to send him back to the White House.

Candidates are using the final days of their campaigns to make their final arguments to the American people. They say the things you want voters to remember when they vote on Election Day. What was the last thing Trump wanted millions of Americans to hear from him and his campaign? The cacophony of bigotry.

Trump chooses to host a rally in New York reminiscent of a Nazi rally It was held there 85 years ago. He would speak in front of thousands of fans in his hometown, but not before more than two dozen representatives would take the stage to make his case.

Comedian and podcaster Tony Hinchcliffe I compared Puerto Rico to a garbage heapHe said black people cut watermelons on Halloween and made rude comments about the sexual habits of Latin Americans.

David Rem, who was said to be Trump’s childhood friend during the campaign, called Democrats “corrupt.” Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Harris “Samoan, Malaysian low IQ” person. (Harris’s father is Jamaican and his mother is Indian.) The only comment the GOP attempted to do damage control was the “joke” about Puerto Rico.

The fact that such blatant racism was seen on stage during a presidential campaign rally says a lot about the Republican Party and America in general.

White conservative ideology, and by extension Trump, has long been threatened by the sense that full racial equality is on the horizon. It’s no coincidence that Trump began his political career after America elected its first Black president.

Famous Alabama segregationist George Wallace advocated racial segregation during his own presidential campaigns, and George H. W. Bush distributed an advertisement He was implying that his opponent, Michael Dukakis, would release violent Black criminals from prison. Ronald Reagan He touted his love for “states rights” At a speech in Mississippi near where civil rights workers were brutally murdered 16 years ago. Critics saw this as a wink to racist white Southern voters.

Yet no major party presidential candidate has embraced overt racism as much as Trump.

Trump made his political breakthrough during the Obama administration by spearheading false claims that the president was secretly born in Kenya and was therefore unfit to be president. A few years later, in a now-infamous scene, he walked down the escalator of Trump Tower to announce that he was running for president and referred to Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists.

His main political promise was to build a wall along the southern border. As president, Trump banned people from many Muslim-majority countries from entering the country, told three members of Congress who were women of color to “go back where they came from,” and attempted to send in the military to eliminate racial segregation. justice protesters

His 2020 re-election campaign was marked by the same things. In his acceptance speech accepting the GOP nomination, Trump said Democrats wanted to unleash “criminals” on suburban neighborhoods and declared that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” referring to Black Lives Matter protesters in X.

Most of these look tame compared to the 2024 campaign.

“Immediate Mass Deportation!” as he addressed a sea of ​​smiling white faces waving signs that read. At the Republican National Convention, Trump officially became the party’s presidential nominee for the third time. This was a prelude to things to come.

Immediately after the assassination attempt, Trump gave the longest speech in the history of the national convention. his campaign reportedly stunning As President Joe Biden’s poll numbers continued to decline and Democrats were losing confidence in the president’s chances of re-election.

But then Biden withdrew and Democrats quickly rallied to replace Harris. The racist candidate now had to run against a Black and South Asian woman.

As the campaign wore on, Trump not only outmaneuvered segregationists and the state’s rights advocates, but also managed to outdo himself.

Perhaps the most dangerous discourse began when a woman posted on social media about a friend of hers whose cat had gone missing and that she suspected her cat had been kidnapped and eaten by Haitians living in the town.

Trump, who did not hear a racist rumor about his dislike on Facebook, repeated the lie on the debate stage and turned it into a campaign message. Already stunned by Harris saying only that her political rallies weren’t that great, Trump began ranting, “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats.

It didn’t matter how many times it was disproved, how many Republicans Officials in Springfield, Ohio, pleaded for the campaign to be stoppedor find out how many bomb threats in the state are keeping kids out of school Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), have pulled out all the stops.

A new chorus began. Trump and his minions weren’t using the old refrains about immigrants as if they were taking jobs in America or as if they were lazy and living in government swine. Now they were harming your pets. spread disease and the theft of housing that should have gone to white U.S. citizens.

There was a rumor extraordinary staying power. Suddenly, it wasn’t just Springfield that was overrun with Haitian immigrants; Towns across the United States had to prepare for hordes of Haitian refugees to pile into buses to take over stark white enclaves.

Trump has also dabbled in eugenics, claiming that immigrants are genetically predisposed to murder. “We’ve got some bad genes in this country,” he said in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. His migration plan mass deportations will tear apart families and ensnare US citizens, placing immigrants in camps And execute immigrants Those who commit violent crimes.

Just days after it became clear that Democrats would rally around Harris as Biden’s replacement, Trump traveled to Detroit to take questions from reporters at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists.

“I didn’t know he was black until he turned black a few years ago, and now he wants to be known as black.” he said When the crowd in the room gasped. “So I don’t know, is he Indian or Black?”

Trump’s campaign doubled down rather than being embarrassed by the appearance of being confused by mixed-race individuals. Trump held rallies and displayed articles saying Harris was the first South Asian woman elected to the Senate, as if that proved she wasn’t actually Black. (Harris was not the first Black woman elected to the Senate.)

It wasn’t long before Trump’s comments inspired his surrogates to go even further. Attack Harris for code switching. Fox News’ Peter Doocy and Jesse Watters questioned why he had a different accent at different times and implied that he was pretending to be Black.

Trump continued to cycle through swing states, warning of an invasion of people from “countries no one has ever heard of.” He repeated right-wing firebrand rumors that Colorado apartment complexes were being taken over by Venezuelan immigrants.

Trump claimed entire cities were being held hostage by immigrants with “superior military” weapons. Her campaign posted racist memes on social media implying that voting for Harris would mean hordes of Black people moving into your neighborhood. He said that any Jew who did not vote for him should have his head examined. Trump has repeatedly said he must win the Black vote — because, after all, immigrants coming across the border are taking “Black jobs.”

As Trump prepares to once again take up residence in the White House, we see that these arguments still work.

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