The newest talking point among many on the Right is that Kamala Harris is not constitutionally eligible to be Vice President because her parents were immigrants.
Trump Encourages Racist Conspiracy Theory About Kamala Harris
This line of attack was reiterated by...who else? Trump.
You'll recall, of course, that the entire reason Trump became an ascendant figure in right wing politics is because he popularized the falsehood during the Obama years that our first black President was illegitimate because he wasn't born in America.
Now, we have a black female VP nominee just announced, and where does the Right go? Right back to the same racist tropes they're so familiar with. We all know this wouldn't be a line of attack if she were white. So let's drop the pretense that this is anything but racial. These are the same folks who thought "very fine people" were on both sides of the protests in Charleston.
Trump, in my view, is not the central problem in the country today. Voting him out of office won't end the legacy he has legitimized in office. He is a symptom of a much more deep-rooted disease in the Republican Party.
(But voting him out is a start. Let's do it. )
Trump Encourages Racist Conspiracy Theory About Kamala Harris
This line of attack was reiterated by...who else? Trump.
You'll recall, of course, that the entire reason Trump became an ascendant figure in right wing politics is because he popularized the falsehood during the Obama years that our first black President was illegitimate because he wasn't born in America.
Now, we have a black female VP nominee just announced, and where does the Right go? Right back to the same racist tropes they're so familiar with. We all know this wouldn't be a line of attack if she were white. So let's drop the pretense that this is anything but racial. These are the same folks who thought "very fine people" were on both sides of the protests in Charleston.
Trump, in my view, is not the central problem in the country today. Voting him out of office won't end the legacy he has legitimized in office. He is a symptom of a much more deep-rooted disease in the Republican Party.
(But voting him out is a start. Let's do it. )