Donald Trump’s Only Success in His First 100 Days Has Been Terrorizing Immigrants Jack Mirkinson - Fusion
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Trump's First 100 Days. And What Has He Done? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann (GQ)

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Donald Trump’s first 100 days have been widely perceived as a failure. That’s to be expected for a president who, apart from being a blight on humanity, has historically low approval ratings, a string of high-profile legislative and judicial defeats to his name, and has flipped-flopped on many of his campaign promises.



All of these things are true. Trump’s cruelty has often been thwarted by his incompetence. He has proven to be about as loyal to a string of supposedly cherished objectives as he has been to his wives. Yet there is one thing Trump has never wavered on: his racism and his hatred of immigrants. It’s driving some of his most vicious - and, so far, viciously effective - policies.



It’s sometimes easy to forget, amidst fights over health care, bombings of Syria, and idiocy about basic American history, that Trump’s core political commitment has always been to white nationalism. He is so erratic, and the mania piles up so quickly, that we can lose sight of just how disciplined he has been in his racism.



It’s not an accident that the most chillingly electrifying moment of his very first campaign speech was the slander of Mexicans as “rapists.” It’s not an accident that the first major act of his presidency was an attempt to ban Muslims from American shores - or that he was so besotted with the idea that he tried to do it two different times.



It’s not an accident that, even as the press has been filled with stories about a war between his key advisers over huge swaths of political terrain, none of them report any serious ideological fallout over issues of race or immigration.



And it’s not an accident that so many of those key advisers - from chief strategist Steve Bannon to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to top aide Stephen Miller - speak about demographic change in America with the clash-of-civilizations fervor seen in so many far-right and fascist Europeans.



Based on all available evidence, Trump is with them every step of the way. No matter how loosely he may think about any other policies, he is dead-set on targeting and terrorizing immigrants and people of color.

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