Can anybody deny that
when Trump says Putin is 'far more' of a leader than Obama, he is appealing to
race and race only? In other words, I don't see Trump saying that Xi Jinping or
Narendra Modi or Shinzo Abe is more of a leader than Obama, just Putin--the
white guy. I
think there is systemic racism in American life and I am not wary of
attributing nearly any aberration in American culture to this systemic racism.
This certainly includes "Mr. Trump" and his bizarre hostility to our
President, whose American birth he has denied. And, furthermore, I
believe that, to my horror and disgust, this systemic racism 'trumps’ the
Republican Party's historic hostility to Russia (seen as recently as Mitt
Romney’s comments in 2012), and their historic championship of the small
countries menaced and, yes, dominated a 1976 campaign reference), by the USSR
and now Russia. I think Estonia, Poland, etc. are finding hat their former
Republican friends have swerved away now that a chance to champion a more
powerful white man, Putin, has presented itself
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