24 XII 2019: Hate mongering politicians, murderous voters

News today about a woman in Iowa named Nicole Marie Poole Franklin who, enabled by Trump’s dog-whistle war against people of color, revved up her Jeep Cherokee and ran over a twelve-year-old African-American boy and a fourteen-year-old Hispanic girl. Police Chief Michael Venema declared at a press conference: “I want to say, in the strongest terms possible, that there is no place in our community — or any other — for this type of hatred and violence.” Very true, but that means there is no place for Trump, Stephen Miller, the White Supremacists, the rebel militias, and all the rest who feel that their hates and prejudices have been made legitimate by the Age of Trump.