The Daily Populous Saturday August 23rd, 2025 evening edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by Silly-avocatoe

I see, looking back over them, that the tone of the above two paragraphs is a bit jocular. But this is no laughing matter. Forget Halligan. Maybe she’s smarter than I think, maybe she’s not. Maybe she’s a hardcore racist, maybe she’s not. But she’s not the point. The point here is Trump. He is not smarter than I think. I suspect he’s never read a history book in his life, and chances are pretty decent he’s never been to a museum, except to galas Ivana dragged him to back when. And about his hardcore racism, there is utterly no question.

But we don’t talk about it enough. Trump long ago established to the satisfaction of everyone outside of MAGA world that he’s a racist to the bone. He and his father wouldn’t rent to Black people. He said those sick things about the defendants in the Central Park jogger case (they weren’t guilty). He said, “Laziness is a trait in Blacks.” He said some white supremacists in Charlottesville were “very fine people.” I could go on and on.

Being long-established, Trump’s racism is not “news.” Regular readers of mine will know this is one of my longtime complaints about the nature and structure of the media. There are lots of things that aren’t “news,” per se, but are true, important, and defining of our reality. Trump’s racism is one of those things. It hovers over everything. It defines nearly everything he does. And it is making the United States of America a cruel, sick, mean place.

UnspecifiedDamages on August 23rd, 2025 at 13:24 UTC »

it’s like Every Single Decision is based on, “ what is the worst possible outcome for the nation?”

razz-boy on August 23rd, 2025 at 11:54 UTC »

Remember when Trump convinced conservatives that Obama was born in Kenya and not Hawaii and demanded to see his birth certificate?

SlapNuts007 on August 23rd, 2025 at 10:43 UTC »

Had to compete with Woodrow Wilson in the first term.