Ignoring Threats, the MAGA Trump Way

WHEN THE ORIGINAL WORLD TRADE CENTER came a tumblin' down, in what we blithely refer to as "nine eleven", the United States revealed its sudden paranoia by establishing the "Department of Homeland Security", implying that our military was not up to the task. Bin laden and friends were a bit too sneaky for us, and required special bureaucratic attention. Bin Laden had a valid complaint, and we all knew it, but pretended, and still pretend otherwise. When a military superpower sends its military halfway around the world, half a million strong, attacks, invades, conquers, occupies, and destroys an Arab country, more than a few Arabs are going, quite simply, to be angry, just as you or anyone else would be in their place. Condemn Bin Laden's methods, but not his motive. Terrorism, generically, was thus recognized and established as the enemy of America, aside from the fact that much of America's foreign policy can be and often is described in similar terms. It was eventually, with reluctance, conceded that there are more forms of terrorism in heaven and Earth than are dreampt of in our biases, above and beyond the radical Islamic kind. Of particular prominence is the white supremacist sort, invariably waged by devout, right wing fundamentalist Christian extremists. The Oklahoma City Federal Building comes to mind, among many other examples which need no mention here. During the Trump administration, hate crimes in general, and white supremacist terroristic mass murder in particular have proliferated, and, in many if not most cases, the mass murderers have given Donald Trump credit, immediately before acting out, for having inspired them. Unwittingly or otherwise, Donald Trump seems to have become something of a role model and inspiration for those intent on killing as many non white non Christian people as possible, in defense of what the mass murderers, as well as many white conservative Christians, perceive as their religious ethnicity under assault by non Christian people of color. Trump supporters vehemently deny this, not surprisingly. Trump supporters deny much, most of it undeniable. It can be convincingly argued, however, that when a person who is preparing to kill many people cites a particular person as his inspiration for the killings, then proceeds to carry out the killings, that the killer has proven his point, has very convincingly backed up his attribution of inspiration, has proved his credibility, and deserves to be believed. Who are we to doubt that someone who kills twenty to fifty people was inspired by the person he says inspired him? Only Trump himself, the Inspiration-In-Chief, and his supporters. There is more proof. President Donald Trump has officially disbanded, eliminated, the department within the Department of Homeland Security which deals with white supremacist terrorism, almost as if it is unnecessary, almost as if there is no white supremacist terroristic mass murder occurring with alarming frequency. What better way to prove that a government response to white supremacist mass murder is unnecessary, that white supremacist mass killings are not a problem and do not exist, than by eliminating the agency responsible for mounting a government response to resist and eliminate them? With but a single stroke of Trump's pen, white supremacy killers are no longer a problem in America. How convenient for Trump, and his far right white Christian extremist supporters. It is a fact that a very high percentage of all terrorism in the United States over the past few decades has been carried out by white supremacists, and that hardly any terrorism has been carried out by radical Islamic terrorists. To verify this, consult the FBI. They keep close track of such things. Or, for that matter, consult the department of Homeland Security, what's left of it, any division. Climate change does not exist, says Trump, and neither does white supremacist terrorism, notwithstanding the hundreds of dead victims of it scattered across America's homeland, and reaching as far as new Zealand. If you didn't know better, you would almost expect Trump's next move to be the elimination Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid by executive order, and his declaring that health problems do not exist, and are nothing but fake news, a left wing conspiracy of the mainstream media, the Democratic party, the deep state, and the Chinese, whose purpose is to destroy the Christian faith, the American way, and to prevent Trump and his MAGA members from making America great, again.