WAIT!
One final enormous "THIS FUCKING GUY" for the night
Hopefully
Yeah we can hope the end is in sight. Trump and McConnell's GOP will go all in this season although this kind of stuff is dicey (and the RNC knows it and so do some of Trump's campaign staff). He's pandering to a shrinking base of now very loud white supremacists. The downside for Democrats is that their natural and justifiably negative reaction to Trump's provocative announcement takes everyone's eye off both Trump's failure to deal in competence with covid-19 and the refusal of the GOP to lavish in further economic stimulus for ordinary people a tenth of the dough they lay out for the Pentagon and in tax waivers for the 0.1% amongst us.
But it cannot seem right just to sit back and roll eyes when a US President decides to celebrate with a new
federal statue a particular signer of the Declaration of Independence who was a slaveholder. Of course Rodney was not the only slaveholder among his peers. Our history is what it is and slavery had not been abolished at the time our Constitution was being written. However, the Caesar Rodney statue was recently removed from public view in Wilmington, Delaware, the capital of the guy's
home state. It was stored temporarily (along with a statue of Columbus, also removed) while the city prepares to consider and debate how it wants its early history to be represented nowadays in public.
Trump's gesture and the timing of it are clearly partisan pandering to white supremacists, and also meant to distract voters in both parties from issues related to Trump's dismal track record and failure to uphold his oath of office on behalf of all Americans for the past four years.
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