Column: Tea party white nationalist corruption saves the president from removal – The Morning Sun
Donald J. Trump has perpetuated a fraud on the American people. It was assumed that he was competent. At his inauguration he stated: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
This president has never respected that oath for what it means to us as Americans. Abraham Lincoln said it best in his Gettysburg Address that this is a government of the people, by the people, [and] for the people. Paying no attention to law or American traditions, Donald Trump governs as though the United States of America is a government of Donald Trump, by Donald Trump and for Donald Trump.
Welcome to Donald Trumps fascist America! Democracy has been lost in America. This president, Donald J. Trump, and this White Nationalist Republican Tea Party have stolen our democracy. The evidence brought by the Democrats in their articles of Impeachment were overwhelming. While Trump claims the phone call with Ukranian President Volodymymr Zelensky was perfect, Purple Heart recipient Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindmans testimony makes clear that call was anything but perfect.
In that call, the President sought a quid pro quo relative to providing military assistance in exchange for dirt that would hurt Joe Biden. The actual transcript of that call, not the White House prepared summary, would show Trump broke the law. He was involving a foreign government on our election. That act required Congressional oversight, which the President sought to obstruct.
Yet, when the Democratic Party majority, a diverse panel, tried to hold this president accountable, they were undermined by a blind loyalty to Donald Trump and the (white) Republican Party. For the Republican Senate Majority to have not convicted him and removed him was certainly partisan. On a partisan basis, he was acquitted. It was partisan corruption. Partisan corruption undermines democracy. Partisan corruption enables fascism. The case against the President was clear.
What we have here is racist rule. What we have here is a white nationalist Republican Party denying constitutional rule to that very diverse Democratic Party. Mitch McConnell is playing the role of stealth Grand Wizard. For democracy to work, it must be based upon integrity not lies. The Republicans in both the House and the Senate lied when it came to Donald Trumps guilt. That is rule by thuggery not reason.
In 2016, Donald Trump was rejected by the majority of American voters. He lost by 3 million votes. That is not unimportant because we need to understand how Donald Trump won and what is the significance of that victory? He won for two reasons: 1) he was a birther and 2) the electoral college.
Many people think Donald Trump won in spite of bring a birther. No, he won a majority of the white vote because he was one of them. He talks like they talk. Like him, many of that majority believes in conspiracy theories. We do know this that majority who are Trump supporters are not offended by his racism. Many of them are low information voters, just like some would say he is a low information president. (He did not know the significance of Pearl Harbor.)
Trumps base are Fox News fans. Recall that Fox News is the No. 1 cable channel. It is the No. 1 cable channel because it gives them what they want, rather than provide more accurate information. Recall the older Fox News viewer in Grand Rapids who attended Congressman Justin Amashs town hall. She learned for the first time that the president had done something wrong.
While that white majority votes for Trump, a more educated minority of whites, generally, vote for Democrats. It is this more educated white minority, along with people of color who are the future of the country. This is the Obama coalition. Older generations of whites represent fewer and fewer voters. They are not Americas future.
The bad news is that a rejected candidate might get elected again. The majority rejected Donald Trumps racism. His sexism, his misogyny, his vulgar undignified behavior has been an embarrassment overseas. The electoral college was there to protect the former slave states. It needs to go. Otherwise, another rejected candidate will become president.
In conclusion two things stand out: Being a birther Donald Trump was in way above his head. A pandemic and an economic collapse will take more than a cheerleader and wishful thinker. Even as a performer, Donald Trump was not good at acting the part. As a con man he has no idea what to do.
If the loser becomes winner the election, he has less legitimacy. A majority of the American voters had determined Donald Trump to be unfit. So, what did we get from this rejected president? Someone more concerned about improving his bottom lines than saving lives, coronavirus be damned.
Robert Newby is professor emeritus of the department of sociology, anthropology and social at Central Michigan University
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