Dr Trump

What must it be like for Mary Trump - who holds an honest-to-god doctorate - to be called stupid by her Uncle Donald? A guy who runs around telling everybody that he's really smart simply because he had a relative who taught at MIT - so he has these great genes and blah blah blah.

Anyway, Mary Trump has the guy's number.

And we should be listening for Donald Trump's use of some very fascist tropes. Although he always paraphrases them, and speaks in code.

The Fourteen Words:

The primary slogan in the Fourteen Words is,

We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children ...

Followed by the secondary slogan,

... because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the Earth.

That shit is always there. He never says it straight out, but it's always there.

He has to keep people alarmed and on edge, so they'll run to Daddy for comfort and protection. Which is odd in itself, because he's always carping about "the government" being worthless, even as he tells people to look to the government - his government - for help.

Anyway.

• He wildly overstates the "problem" by using a ridiculously inflated number. ie: "30,000 Haitian immigrants."
• Then he says Biden used "a trick" to give them legal status.
• And then he puts himself above the law - again - as always - by saying they're illegal as far as he's concerned.

And that's how it works.

• Amp up the fear and anger
• "There oughta be a law" 
• Make it a law

It doesn't matter if you can pull it off or not. It doesn't matter if it's constitutional or not. The expectation of the mob is that you should be allowed to do it. As long as you've got the mob, you've got the power.