Explaining Trump: The Only Answer is White Supremacy

I have not been posting that much lately about the hostility of the Trump Administration to non-white immigrants because, well, it is an every-damned-day-thing.  But we should not normalize it or accept it.  The latest?  Possibly sending Hmong immigrants back to Laos.  Given the human rights problems there, this may be sending people to their deaths.  Now, this is not new, as the people sent back to Guatamela have been killed or raped.  Not just a few but more of them than not.

Why bother sending back something like five thousand Hmong, who have mostly quite assimilated?  They pose no threat to security or jobs or anything else.  Their main distinguishing feature to this government is that they are brown people and they are refugees.  This move is part of a larger policy of the whitening of America--to reverse the increased diversity of the US by not only slowing down the intake of non-whites but actually kicking them out, no matter the circumstances of homelands that they mostly know not.

Of all of the crimes and horrors committed by Trump and his administration, until he starts a war with Iran or North Korea, it will be his immigration policies that have done the most harm and to people who have done nothing to deserve except to come to the US to realize the American dream.

And why?  Because Trump is a white supremacist and is doing the bidding of white supremacists.  The "populism" of the past four years (and beyond) is clearly not due to economic anxiety but to the fear of "replacement"--that the US is becoming more hetergeneous and that whites will no longer be a majority.  Why is this so problematic?  Mostly projection, I think.  That is, these whites fear that non-whites will treat them as whites have treated non-whites.  Ok, that and just out and out racism and xenophobia.  Remember that the protesters at Charlottesville and elsewhere have chanted "they shall not replace us" and all that.  Such fine people on both sides.... oy.

So, how does one prevent "replacement":
Step 1: Stop immigration from non-white countries.
Step 2: Discourage undocumented immigration--the wall and kids in cages.
Step 3: Send non-white people away even if it means they are being sent to their deaths.
Step 4: Try to encourage non-whites to have shorter lives by gutting the health care system.
Step 5: Suppress the votes of non-whites.  Ok, that really is step one, and it preceded Trump.

While not everything Trump does is systematic or consistent, white supremacy has been a core aspect of Trump's personality going back to the 1970s and going back to his father much earlier than that, and it has been reflected in the start of his campaign and his rallies ever since then.  It is one of the few consistencies of his tweets and of his policies.  It has been reflected in his appointments--hey, remember Jeff Sessions?

Pettiness, projection, vanity, and white supremacy are the keys to understanding much of what Trump does.