The other blood libel
Former President Donald J. Trump said undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country” in a recent interview, language with echoes of white supremacy and the racial hatreds of Adolf Hitler.
That’s quite breathtaking.
In the interview, Mr. Trump was asked about immigration and the Southern border.
He replied: “Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have.”
It’s Trump who’s poisoning this country. Not with his blood but with his filthy evil mouth.
A spokesman for Mr. Trump, Steven Cheung, called the former president’s comment “a normal phrase that is used in everyday life.” He added, “For anyone to think that is racist or xenophobic is living in an alternate reality consumed with nonsensical outrage.”
A normal phrase? Used in everyday life?
I suppose that could be true for people in Trump’s orbit. It probably is something they say often and routinely, because they’re people in Trump’s orbit. But people not wholly immersed in a mental swamp? Not so much.
In “Mein Kampf,” as noted by the website MeidasTouch.com and amplified by others, there are several passages in which Hitler used the words “poison” and “blood” in attacking people he deemed a threat to the purity of the Aryan race.
In a chapter titled “Race and People,” Hitler wrote, “All the great civilizations of the past became decadent because the originally creative race died out, as a result of contamination of the blood.”
There’s nothing surprising about that. Hitler had a small filthy mind, and so does Trump.
Blud und Boden isn’t even a dogwhistle. It’s an out and out clarion call for the “white genocide” and “you will not replace us.” I don’t know how many gender criticals are planning to vote for Trump because of Biden’s being beholden to the trans cause, but they may want to listen to him lately. Calling for extrajudicial killing of shoplifters, calling for white supremacy, calling for a purge of government.
That’s now what freedom sounds like folks. How many Latin Americans who have been swinging right due to the abortion issue are going to hear that they are making us all “mudbloods?”
‘Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from’, says Trump, before going on to tell us where these people come from.
Why wasn’t The Times headline ‘Trump Admits to Being a Nobody’?
I have at times complained that some science fiction, alternate history, etc. works were too heavy-handed in their portrayals of how easily It Could Happen Here.
I’m starting to think I owe some authors some apologies.
It can’t happen here though… No whatever “it” is it’ll be uniquely colored by how large and diverse this country is.