Mr. Trump has closed down discussion with the people that attend his rallies. He has alienated his followers from the news media. He has also demonized the news media that exists today. Those are not the actions of a naive man.
Mr. Trump has been before the people for a long time and has been successful in coining the phrase "You're fired." as his brand. These are powerful words that reach into the pockets of his underlings by Mr. Trump. He knows exactly what he is doing.
Does he know the violence bubbling under those power words and actions he has been spewing for weeks now? Yes, the Republican Party has been courting the White Nationalists (Trump admits he is a Nationalist.) for decades. They are part of the electoral base of the Republican Party. Every time there is an election in the USA, within the last three weeks and sometimes more, the Republicans use that time to stimulate these racists to turn out their vote. They use racist slurs and disgusting dialogue to bring them to the polls.
So, it is only a vote, right? No, sir. The vote is why the White Nationalists are participating. They anticipate there will be a Republican in powerful positions to either act slowly to violent uprisings or not at all or with that those putting forth the violent uprising can overcome any police/swat, national guard or military force before them. The White Nationalists know they have to first make demands to weaken the forces that enforce domestic peace in the USA. Defunding many aspects of the federal government will do that.
In the recent outbreaks of violence toward innocent citizens, there is a racist/political component to all of them. Not only that, Bowers clearly stated in a cyberspace that had been dismantled and probably reconstructed somewhere else, he thinks Trump is a globalist and not a racist. These hate groups are used to being disappointed by the political figures they vote for and chronically seek to overcome the USA infrastructure that is in place to end such violence and protect from deaths of citizens. It is why I advocate for "self-empowerment" to defend from these killers. In my opinion, the mayors and city councils are the best government structure to ensure there are aspects to their citizens' defense, but, they do not harbor police or swat teams that can act to large numbers of armed extremists. The best example, of course, is New York City which has it's own intelligence department.
When looking across the spectrum of the White Nationalists ability to invoke a civil war, it does exist. There are significant numbers of people within these groups, they have access to weapons and as seen in Bowers and with Sayoc, they are prepared to kill. Bowers was heavily armed with military-style weapons and plenty of ammunition to kill and escape. Sayoc worked in secret and sought to undermine investigation that would lead to him, but, he was not successful.
In the case of Dylan Roof, he killed all the witnesses and walked out of the church only to be reported by others as leaving the church and an alarmed person reported his whereabouts. I point to the fact, Dylan Roof was young and within the age of many USA military troops. This culture is chronic within the USA culture. These haters know what they want and they are frequently seeking to elude law enforcement so they can kill again.
Today, in American prisons there are people organized into their gangs. That is no different for White Nationalists. Can enough White Nationalists cause a prison breakout? It is possible. Is it probable? Not today. Do outside groups see these prisoners as assets? Yes. How? The White Nationalists live inside and outside a prison. They can successfully coerce and intimidate other members and their family member outside the prison to provide the monies to make life more comfortable while they serve their time. How do they achieve such coercion? There are other White Nationalists they can kill within the prisons, so death threats to family and friends work. Does the USA prison system seek to end this danger? Yes. Is it completely successful? No. The effort to disarm these hate groups within a prison system is a daily routine.
So, Mr. Foxman while a gentleman and optimist sees Donald Trump as naive. He is not. He is President of the USA and has all this information in front of him, even warnings from Homeland Security about hate groups. Mr. Trump knows what he is doing and whom the victims will be. Mr. Trump counts on gentlemen like Mr. Foxman to avoid detection of his political ruthlessness.
October 30, 2018
By David Horovitz
The child of Polish Jews (click here) who survived the Holocaust when taken in by his Catholic nanny, Abraham Foxman has spent his American life fighting anti-Semitism, chiefly as the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, from 1987 to 2015.
I’ve known him for many years. Speaking to him on Tuesday, with the Shabbat massacre in Pittsburgh raw and horrifying, hours ahead of the first funerals, I’ve never seen him so distraught. “Shocked but not surprised,” as he put it....
...Foxman, 78, stresses that anti-Semitism has “always been there” in America. He stresses, too, that Donald Trump is not an anti-Semite. But, says Foxman, carefully and fiercely, “he is part of the problem.”
“Pittsburgh is not Trump. It’s also Trump,” he says. By this, he explains, he means that a consequence of Trump’s ideology, unforeseen by the president, is the triggering of bigotry and the emboldening of extremists like Pittsburgh killer Robert Bowers. “I don’t think he sees it. I don’t think he understands it,” says Foxman of Trump.
Far from opposing Trump going to Pittsburgh, Foxman is adamant that of course the president must go. “I want him to come to Pittsburgh. I wanthim to go to the funerals. I want him to see the pain of what he didn’t do but his words helped create,” said Foxman.And he wants Trump, in Pittsburgh, to say what? Foxman pauses, then replies: “That the language of divide and conquer will undermine who we are — our safety, our democracy, our freedom. That words are serious. That I understand that words unintended can have very dangerous consequences — as happened in Pittsburgh… That people use these words and abuse them, and I will now respect those words because I know they have consequences. He’s capable of that.”
But for all his determined optimism, Foxman plainly doubts it. “He’s a demagogue,” he repeats several times of the president.
A threat to American democracy? I ask him. “Yes. And anything that threatens American democracy sure as hell threatens Jews.”
