Mike Huckabee is a Baptist pastor, Trump court evangelical, Christian television celebrity, and former presidential candidate (he won the Iowa caucuses in 2008) and governor of Arkansas. He also appears to be a racist. Here is Matthew Brown at USA […]
Ilhan Omar
Trump is a racist. There is just no way around it.
You’ve all seen it by now: A lot of people are going to say Trump misspoke or Chris Wallace set him up. Trump’s supporters are doing everything possible to defend him. But how can we interpret Trump’s words as something […]
Trump doubles down on the racism, nativism, and unhealthy nostalgia in Pittsburgh
Watch Trump on September 22, 2020 in the Pittsburgh area: Trump is talking about Ilhan Omar, a Black Muslim congresswoman who represents Minnesota’s 5th congressional district. She won nearly 78% of the vote in her district in 2018. Trump is […]
White People Have Denied That They Are Racist For a Long Time
After Donald Trump told U.S Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley, Tlaib, and Omar to “go back” to their own countries, I heard and read a lot of conservatives say something similar to Fox News commentator Brit Hume: Trump’s “go back” comments were […]
Trump is Manufacturing Racial Fears
Peter Beinart, writing at The Atlantic, is on to something when he writes, “In the past, the president riled up his base by exploiting violent incidents in the news. Now he just manufactures his own controversies.” Here is a taste of […]
Trump Has Found His Ticket(s) to Relection
Trump has been waiting for a moment like this. After watching some of his rally last night in Greenville, North Carolina, it is clear that the president thinks he has found his path to re-election in 2020. Trump hopes to […]
Does Donald Trump Want Frederick Douglass to Go Back to Where He Came From?
Some of you may remember that Donald Trump thinks Frederick Douglass, ex-slave-turned-abolitionist, is still alive. Douglass is not only alive, but he is doing “an amazing job.” (I am not sure if any corrected him on this. For the record, […]
Gerson: Trump is the Real Threat to Religious Liberty
Here is Gerson–an evangelical, former Bush speechwriter, and Washington Post columnist–on Trump’s response to recent statements by Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar: By all the evidence, Trump is an anti-Muslim bigot. At one campaign event in 2015, a member of the audience stated, “We […]
How Long Will Americans Tolerate This Man as Their President?
Today I watched Representative Ilhan Omar’s speech on Islam, religious liberty, anti-Muslim bigotry at the Council of American-Islamic Relations. Here is the controversial part of the speech: Here’s the truth: far too long we have lived with the discomfort of […]