Trump’s Unrecognizable America
Echoing the candidate, Trump’s ally Roger Stone claimed that Huma Abedin, the vice-chair of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, could be a “Saudi spy” or “terrorist agent.”
.. This talk is something of a relic of the New York of the nineteen-eighties, from which Trump himself emerged, suffused with ethnic competition and fear. It was Trump’s sensibility as a real-estate executive of that era, whose managers marked “C” for colored on rental applications.
.. But, as is almost always the case, the more we learned about the shooter’s life, the less to the point this sounded.
.. Mateen’s father has denied that his son was gay, and said, in apologizing for the attack, that “God himself will punish those involved in homosexuality.”
.. His views were visible not just to his co-religionists but also to his co-workers. He was part of our society.
.. His ethnic essentialism, the dwelling on dual loyalties, has become not just a point of offense but an electoral problem.
.. fifty-five per cent of likely voters polled swore that they would “never” vote for the casino mogul.