Trump barely talks about race, while his adversaries are obsessed with “whiteness” and “white privilege”
As New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet made clear last week, the Democratic strategy to defeat President Donald Trump in 2020 is to tar him with the brush of racism. Asked in early August whether Donald Trump is a “white supremacist” — i.e., one who believes rule by whites is the natural order of things — Elizabeth Warren replied, without hesitation, “Yes” and fellow Democratic hopefuls have responded similarly.
So far, the strategy of labeling Trump as a racist is paying off, with half of Americans, according to some polls, agreeing that Trump is a racist. (All matter of hilarity breaks out when college students are asked whether a certain “Trump statement,” actually made by President Obama, is racist.)
As usual, those seeking to portray Trump as a racist have received assists from the president, who is often his own worst enemy. Just as Democrats had gathered in a circular firing squad — with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accusing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of singling out “women of color” for disrespect — Trump stepped in to distract attention from the internecine fight.
He tweeted that the same four first-term congresswomen, the Squad, who were attacking Pelosi, should “go back” to the “broken” countries from which they came and fix them before offering criticism of the United States.
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