{"id":31168,"date":"2018-01-23T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31168"},"modified":"2018-01-23T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:00:10","slug":"prepare-for-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/23\/prepare-for-round-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepare for Round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

After thinking the matter over, I think there is a reasonable chance that Senate Republicans will honor the promise of a DACA vote, and that a relief for Dreamers will pass the Senate.  Why would Senate Republicans act so out of character?  They will benefit by appearing reasonable to more voters, and they know that no matter what they pass, it is doubtful that Lyin’ Ryan will ever allow the House to vote on it.  So we’d better prepare for Round 2.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Time, on its own, doesn\u2019t assuage racism. White power concedes nothing without a vigorous fight, and the fantasy that racism is a problem that can just be waited out is an absolute delusion. That\u2019s part of America\u2019s problem: it continually asks black and brown people to sit tight, stand down, never gripe or protest, and naively hope that a country that has repeatedly betrayed and abused them will miraculously do the right thing. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening with DACA right now, and the frustration of watching this familiar scene play out is maddening.<\/p>\n

The DACA fight, including the 60-hour recent government shutdown, has been about racism from day one. Donald Trump\u2019s well-documented white supremacist bonafides<\/a> dating back to his discriminatory real estate practices in the 1970s<\/a> are legion, and the evidence has come fast and furious over the last two years. There was the launch of his presidential bid with a speech that cast all Mexicans as criminals, the judge he insulted based solely on his Mexican heritage<\/a>, his promise to his supporters to enact policies specifically designed to hurt people of color, and his sympathizing with the \u201cvery fine [group of] people\u201d who murdered an anti-racism protester. By the time word leaked that Trump had moaned about immigrants from \u201cshithole countries<\/a>,\u201d the statement only confirmed what was obvious. Trump believes DACA allows shithole-caliber black and brown people to live in this country at a moment he is desperately trying to Make America Aryan Again, apparently with a huge influx of Norwegians.<\/p>\n

Trump isn\u2019t alone in this effort, he’s backed by a White House full of racist xenophobes. Senior Trump staffer Stephen Miller has a record of anti-immigrant racism that dates back to junior high school, when he reportedly unfriended a schoolmate<\/a> for being Latino, and his undergrad days at Duke University, where he railed against \u201cmulticulturalism\u201d and hung out with notoriously punchable Nazi Richard Spencer<\/a>. The first hint that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly might be a racist was his willingness work for Trump. Since taking the job, he has solidified his stance by singing Robert E. Lee<\/a>‘s praises, defending monuments to the Confederacy, and promoting the idea that slavery wasn’t such a bad institution if you just get into the mindset of white slaveowners<\/a> (and John Kelly, apparently). He has also been relentless in advancing this administration’s xenophobic goals. \u201cIn just six months, Kelly turned [the Department of Homeland Security] into a deportation machine<\/a>\u201d notes the the Nation\u2019s Julianne Hing, \u201ctranslat[ing] much of Trump\u2019s brazen anti-immigrant campaign rhetoric into actual policy."…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Click through for an excellent in depth analysis of the racist hatred that pervades the Republican Party.  That is why I see little this as an exercise in futility.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After thinking the matter over, I think there is a reasonable chance that Senate Republicans will honor the promise of a DACA vote, and that a relief for Dreamers will pass the Senate.  Why would Senate Republicans act so out of character?  They will benefit by appearing reasonable to more voters, and they know that […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}