For this entire week, former President Donald Trump’s entire campaign staff and surrogate network has leaned into making daily unsubstantiated racist and xenophobic attacks on the legal Haitian migrant community in the small city of Springfield, Ohio.
Yesterday, I covered how this led to a bomb scare that emptied city buildings and schools. Today, Trump and Vance once again attacked those legal Haitian migrants. In fact, today Trump pledged to illegally conduct a mass deportation of those LEGAL Haitian migrants.
Ans once again, schools were closed due to bomb threats.
Perhaps the explanation is that the former President, always a coward, chickened out of another debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, he needed to reestablish his tough guy bonafide. His mental state is so fragile he had to invent reasons why she won, when the real answer is his own lack of knowledge of his own policies (which he’s been running on for 9 years) and his utter lack of self control.
So he does the only thing a coward can do to regain face: continue to bully a vulnerable, Black immigrant community by spreading lies. Yet our posters claim Trump is the man who can stand up to domestic and foreign enemies. Except they’ve suddenly gone silent about that, haven’t they?
Let me not mince words: the people engaging in these bomb threats and other acts of violence against the Haitian community are engaging in terrorism. Full stop.
Terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. MAGA has made the political goals clear: to win the White House. MAGA has also made the ideological goals clear: to create an environment so hostile to those migrants that they leave.
And Vance and Trump know the violent environment they are creating. Nevertheless, they persist with this intentional racism.
They are also disrupting the businesses that are hiring, once again, lawful migrants. This requires a parent to leave work in homes where both parents work. Contra J D Vance, not everyone has the privilege of having older relatives who can be emergency caregivers. That disrupts manufacturing. That disrupts business. That adds stress to families who are being attack for no other reason that being the wrong type of legal migrant.
Trump supporters say they want to see jobs and manufacturing return to the United States. Yet when Black migrants fill those jobs, they scream: NOT THAT WAY!
Some Trump supporters want to see more Christians come to this country because they think we’re a Christian nation. But Christians who are Black and Haitian don’t count. Again, they scream: NOT THAT WAY!
Many Trump Supporters claim that they support legal immigration. But again, when legal Haitian Migrants come legally to the US, they scream: NOT THAT WAY!
After a summer of rightfully calling out the overly aggressive and threatening protests on college campuses and a “clear example” of Democrats siding with antisemitism, those same commenters are treating this topic like kryptonite. Our MAGA commentators have posted here since all this started, and yet they remain silent on this topic.
Moral cowardice knows no bounds–especially when they know they will still be voting for the Bully platform in the fall. After all, the Leopards Eating People’s Faces party will never turn on them.
BTW, I will keep this posting up until Trump backs down. So Trump supports get used to coming to terms with the racism you are supporting.
