There is a huge push by the racist president to grow the wedge and hatred between races.
This is a lot more than you've provoked, so to speak, with your comment here but, since I find you to be one of the more thoughtful contributors in many discussions here, let me lay this on you:
I don't know what's inside the head of the President, but I have seen little compelling evidence of what you claim here.
(I have an undeniable respect for the office and its current holder at any given time of my life. I've found that nearly impossible to shake off, having been a conscientious Navy brat and Air Force vet.)
But my general tendency is to (perhaps too cynically) suspect that the concept of ethnicity is only useful to politicians insofar as it garners them votes and other forms of support and utility.
Mr. Trump is a professional trash-talker. I believe this is an extremely significant part of what makes people both love and hate him.
He has done things that are arguably bad for the country. He has also done things that are arguably good for the country.
I can't make any sense of the Jan 6 thing because the teams have taken up all the oxygen in the available flow of information. What is obvious to the teams is not at all obvious to me.
I was horrified when it happened. I was on the road from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania at the time, and my 75-year-old dad called me, seemingly worried that the sky was falling. I can't deny that early reports had it looking that way, at least, figuratively. I could never have imagined the likelihood of such a thing.
But, after getting home and having a prayer or two and a nice warm beverage, I decided/realized that our government was never actually in danger of being overthrown, whatever the intents of the offenders were. What has happened in the aftermath is much worse than the actual event itself.
But the whole thing was precipitated largely by a compounded accumulation of trash-talking by the President. I don't believe it was his intention for the mob to actually break into the Capitol. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. He's not a violent man, by all accounts.
Nevertheless, he was responsible to some degree, the amount of which I do not know. But there can be no question that the amount of his responsibility was more than it should have been.
And, but for the grace of God, while the continuing function of our government was never in peril, things could have gotten a lot more violent that day. Mobs are, by nature, volatile and unpredictable. And security seemed to be very vulnerable to the relatively unprecedented event.
My point is, Mr. Trump's handiest and trustiest tool is a hyperbole that is a brand of his own. I've seen him conceive and wield it in real time with exactly the effect he would obviously desire.
He could have taught Muhammad Ali a thing or two about trash-talking. And Ali once called Frasier a "Gorilla." Nobody fired Ali the way Rosanne was summarily (and rightly, IMO) jettisoned from her own TV show. And nobody else—not even another black man—could've gotten away with what Ali did.
My point is, Trump is delighted when folks call him the Boogeyman a zillion times a day over the things he says. Because then, he can point and scoff at all the times people took him too seriously, comparing what he said to what he actually ended up doing (or even just getting away with, in the cases where he fully intended to do what he said). It is a masterful chess game that he's playing with his impassioned detractors and, so far, winning, however narrowly it may be.
(And it might be worth considering that even these EOs he's generating in rapid-fire succession may yet prove to have been a form of trash-talking, once they undergone complete adjudication.)
Please understand, I'm not justifying any of his trash-talking. I'm simply acknowledging how remarkably effective it is for good or bad. It's something we've rarely seen in a president and NEVER to the extent and success with which he has attained.
In the end, it will be seen as a substantial contribution to the evil of the last days—bit not the ultimate contribution.
Much of what I hold as theory regarding politics and the ramifications of current political events can't be said here because it invariably paints me as a supporter of one of the two teams, and I simply won't have it.
But I can highly recommend
@Brakelite's
take on this from the 2nd page of this thread, especially because he goes more into the eschatological and spiritual implications of what's actually transpiring, above the smoke screen the devil is perpetrating on us.
I've already gone much farther in this thread than I'm comfortable with, and I suspect there are one or two here who wish I'd act on my discomfort.
