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But the situation remains volatile and unpredictable. Now, with health, economic and social crises feeding off each other, polls show him trailing rival Joe Biden. At the start of this re-election year, feeling emboldened by his acquittal in a Senate impeachment trial and a robust economy, Trump was confident of his re-election chances. The president’s suggestion of moral equivalence between white nationalists and anti-fascist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 failed to loosen his grip on the Republican party. He has elevated and put people around him that do that as well.” “He didn’t create hostility and division, but he incites it. Rashad Robinson, the president of Color of Change, a civil rights advocacy group, said of the current moment: “This is the type of controversy that Trump feels most at home in. He is willing to kill America’s international and global relationships. He is willing to kill any sense of real respect or trust in his government. He is willing to kill any sense of real respect or trust in his government LaTosha Brown He has shown that he is willing to kill every single thing in this country, including its people, if it protects him. “If it would take the destruction of the country for him to protect his position, he is willing to do that.
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Trump is not so much a child playing with matches as an arsonist hellbent on burning it all down, Brown warned. He actually adds fuel to the flames and shows how fundamentally intellectually disconnected he is from what is happening and also how ill-prepared he is as a leader to respond to that.” He’s used to these dog whistles and, instead of trying to uproot division and seeing that the citizens are actually in pain and hurting, he doesn’t have the capacity to address that. He is incapable of providing that because that’s not who he is.”īrown added: “He’s a personality. Wherever he goes, he carries that role and that kind of persona, but ultimately right now with what we’re looking for in this country is real leadership. He has a cult following that’s centred around this white power broker persona rooted in white supremacy and racism. “He is obviously in way over his head,” said LaTosha Brown, a civil rights activist and co-founder of Black Voters Matter. Protesters gather outside the White House on Sunday.
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That would require deep reading, cultural sensitivity and human empathy – none of which are known to be among personal attributes of Trump, who defines himself in opposition to Barack Obama. The nation waits in vain for a speech that might heal wounds, find a common sense of purpose and acknowledge the generational trauma of African Americans. As unrest now grips dozens of cities, he speaks an authoritarian language of “thugs”, “vicious dogs” and “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”. He tried to wish away the threat of the coronavirus and failed to prepare, then paid no heed to how communities of colour bore the brunt of its health and economic consequences. Trump, they say, was uniquely ill-qualified for this moment. Taken together, these ingredients created a tinderbox poised to explode when crises came. The story of Trump’s presidency was arguably always leading to this moment, with its toxic mix of weak moral leadership, racial divisiveness, crass and vulgar rhetoric and an erosion of norms, institutions and trust in traditional information sources. Not even Trump’s harshest critics can blame him for a virus believed to have come from a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, nor for an attendant economic collapse, nor for four centuries of slavery, segregation, police brutality and racial injustice.īut they can, and do, point to how he made a bad situation so much worse. In the fourth year, the fates demanded payback. For many observers, there was a distinct echo of Richard Nixon’s 1968 acceptance speech – “We see cities enveloped in smoke and flame” – and a foreboding that history could take a newly dark and dangerous turn.įor three years, the first president elected without political or military experience rode his luck and skirted past disaster. These were the words of Donald Trump, not in May 2020 but July 2016, as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the national convention in Cleveland.