Unmentioned as yet (as far as I can see), but equally pernicious and nasty, enabling racists everywhere -
Trump paints himself as great white hope in racism-drenched Davos speech
Trump surmised: Yes, we might have our internal squabbles, but I am bringing tough love because we are all in this together. We are the standard bearers of western civilisation. We must resist the barbarian hordes. We must save the white man.
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...speech-stephen-miller-white-identity-politics
Racism is endemic in the US and has been since the abolition of slavery. Abolishing slavery threw millions of
blacks into poverty. There was no welfare state. As the former slaves tried to literally stay alive, robbery became rife and recorded hangings of blacks reached almost 5000.
While official records vary, organizations like the NAACP documented widespread racial terror, with estimates suggesting thousands of African Americans were lynched.
(I do not like the use of the word 'suggesting' as if it were arguable. Such is the result of a Google search)
A lot of farmers, many in the former Confederate states became poor overnight and of course, blamed the north. This (very crudely) north/south divide - now a left/right split can be traced back to the roots of both the GOP and the Democrats. The KKK was founded in 1865. That's 160 years of organised prejudice. The KKK has splintered but has been replaced with 250 separate 'hate' groups. Miller is arguably congealing the separate groups and giving them uniforms and a salary.
The difference now, is that we have a purely Christian Nationalist government. Bar Obama, every single president has to have the endorsement of the bible bashers or they will not be elected, they will not get enough votes. This is ironic as there are proponents of keeping religion and the judiciary separate. It can never be separate in the US if the bible bashers are the deciding factor. That means that US domestic and foreign policy has been formed for time immemorial with the indirect consent of a belief system.
Miller is now the bugle of that endemic white supremacy ideology - simultaneously capitalising on deportations (Palantir) and getting a stiffy out of being cruel and appealing to those purveyors of racism, of prejudice, of hate. Trump laced the track with the rhetoric of illegals being predominantly criminal. Which is threatening to white people of a certain order's very existence. He's said this for a while so for the Grauniad (I do like the Guardian) to have come to this conclusion now is rather belated when it has been blatant from the outset.
Sorry, long post.
