It would appear that Trump has nothing left to say to the American people but to spread ridiculous conspiracy theories about Haitian immigrants eating pets, babies being killed after birth, and rampant sex change operations, whether they be transexual immigrants in prison or children going to school and coming home a different sex. Your humble spirit didn’t think anything could be as silly as claims of migrants escaping from insane asylums, but when it comes to Donald Trump, once again I’ve been proven wrong. The things some people will say to stay out of prison!
Presumably Trump knows these outrageous claims will not persuade suburban women to vote for him, so he must think his only hope of victory lies with motivating his core base of MAGA white men to come out in disproportionate numbers. Trump understands that nothing stirs up those dudes more than xenophobia and fear of emasculation. (If there’s anything they hate more than the threat of losing their manhood to a scalpel, it’s when a woman of color achieves the power that was once reserved for white men.)
Just a little background—All the hoopla about the Haitian “invasion” of Springfield, OH seems to have started in early August when about a dozen members of the neo-Nazi “Blood Tribe” organization arrived in town, threatened city council members, and declared Jews were responsible for the city having been taken over by “degenerate third worlders.” Then, on September 1, another white supremacist group, “Patriot Front,” held its own protest against the “mass influx of unassimilable Haitian migrants” in the city. This past week, seemingly in response to Trump’s publicizing the issue, there were bomb threats in Springfield, requiring numerous municipal buildings and schools to be closed.
Now Trump has promised to conduct a mass deportation if he is elected, the largest deportation in the history of the country, despite the Haitians being here legally (having received temporary protected status), something that Trump and his campaign blame on Kamala Harris. Trump has two big issues he can win on, immigration and the economy (inflation), and it’s clear he’s chosen the more emotionally charged fear of “losing their country” as the most expedient vehicle for pandering to his MAGA base.
The Haitian Immigrants in Springfield, OH Make Perfect Fodder for Trump’s Latest Big Lie!
Kamala Harris may have done a good job in her debate with Trump, but she failed to address the inflation issue or the Biden Administration’s failure to get the southern border under control until six months ago. In addition to owing voters an explanation of the events that took place during her tenure as vice-president, she needs to demonstrate empathy for the pain (inflation) and fear (immigration) suffered by so many Americans. Despite all the raving idiocy spewing from Trump’s mouth lately, I’m not the only one who thinks Harris could lose the election if she fails to adequately address these hot buttons.
In his New York Times editorial last week, entitled “Harris Can Win on the Economy, but She Needs a Stronger Message,” Duke Law School professor Jedediah Britton-Purdy provided an insightful analysis of why many Americans feel our political and economic system needs major changes or should be torn down entirely, that the economy is rigged to benefit the rich and powerful:
“People feel powerless, ripped off by monopolies in everything from phone service to concert tickets. They can’t get ahead in an economy where real wages have fallen behind the investments that wealthier people hold, which have skyrocketed in value. They see great fortunes made from addictive drugs and addictive platforms, and the pirates of high finance bailed out when bankruptcy looms. . . The Biden administration reversed decades of flawed economic policy by attacking corporate concentration, investing in domestic industries and infrastructure and refining Trump-era tariffs on Chinese goods in strategic areas. But partly because of Mr. Biden’s limitations as a communicator, his administration never had a cohesive narrative about what it was doing. Inflation, which everyone sees every day, filled the vacuum and became the economic story. . . Although Democrats see Mr. Trump as a chaotic bad boss in chief, many supporters see him as the real defender of economic security, decent jobs and a safe and orderly world. . . As long as voters feel threatened and aggrieved in their everyday lives, the politics that gives voice to that feeling will have the advantage, even if it is reckless or ineffective.”
As John Lennon liked to say, “there are no problems, only solutions.” While Donald Trump focuses his campaign on debunked rumors of eaten pets, baby killings, and an epidemic of sex change operations, Vice President Harris has the opportunity to truly address America’s real problems and lay out a vision for the country’s future. Let’s hope she seizes upon it.