Personally speaking, Trump's always been a bit of a joke presidency. He's terrible. Awful. A throwback to the days of Jim Crow, but there's an insincerity in his manner that suggests he's only doing it because the people around him want it done. He doesn't care, much like the two prior presidents, whose policies opened up the opportunity for a huckster to even consider running for the presidency.
I'm not even going to get into the racialized border politics of Trump. ICE, and all that. It's awful, but it was resultant of the presidents who came before. Obama, and Bush were also bad. Not as bad as Trump, but many of the in-place policies were likely to lead to this point in time. Trump's brutal border policies could not have happened if not for Obama out-doing Bush, and Bush out-policing Clinton, and Clinton... Well, illegal border crossings weren't regular back in the 80's when Mexico was still independent of the Canada-US FTA.
Well, to be fair, a Trump presidency is in its entirety fully resultant of the politics dominating the United States since the days of Ronald Reagan: neo-liberalism. It took twenty years for Reagan and his successors to dismantle enough of New Deal policies to wrench asunder the economy enough for libertarianism to gain a foothold in the American economy. However, it took eight years after the Clinton presidency for the economy to break down. And we're probably back at the same point reached in 2008. Now it's a game of waiting for the break down of the American economy once again.
Anyway, back to the point of this post: I've never been worried about Trump, as being a person of colour—full disclosure, I'm a person of brown colour; a First Nations, or Indigenous Canadian—I've seen all this before. I felt it was just going to be more of the same old, same old in terms of racialized politics. And I was proven right. Trump's just trying to out-brutalize his predecessors. There are true believers in the racialized politics of the US-Mexico border, but Trump's just being an opportunist.
On the other hand, I've always been worried about what sort of presidency could possibly follow Trumps'. In this case, it could very well be Michael Bloomberg, oligarch, propagandist, and former authoritarian mayor of New York City. He's gained control of NYC's police forces, and used it to terrorize the Black community for over a decade. The stories that are beginning to flow out of NYC are just horrifying. It gives thought to the danger of ICE-style policing making their way into the cities, USA-wide. It's already bad, with these sorts of police-tactics in African-American neighbourhoods: Broken Window Theory. But ICE is an other level bad. It's back to the bad old days of Jim Crow.
Bloomberg says he's apologized, but his apology was the typical Boomer apology non-apology. Just complete and utter bullshit from a man who doesn't believe what he had done, and perpetrated to have done any actual lasting impact.
Yeah, I can see the future. Bloomberg in control of America's police forces in-total is an utterly terrifying prospect. He's a true believer in the usage of police force. It would be the further racialized militarization of the USA's police forces. It would be Broken Windows theory in overdrive.
I'm not even going to get into the racialized border politics of Trump. ICE, and all that. It's awful, but it was resultant of the presidents who came before. Obama, and Bush were also bad. Not as bad as Trump, but many of the in-place policies were likely to lead to this point in time. Trump's brutal border policies could not have happened if not for Obama out-doing Bush, and Bush out-policing Clinton, and Clinton... Well, illegal border crossings weren't regular back in the 80's when Mexico was still independent of the Canada-US FTA.
Well, to be fair, a Trump presidency is in its entirety fully resultant of the politics dominating the United States since the days of Ronald Reagan: neo-liberalism. It took twenty years for Reagan and his successors to dismantle enough of New Deal policies to wrench asunder the economy enough for libertarianism to gain a foothold in the American economy. However, it took eight years after the Clinton presidency for the economy to break down. And we're probably back at the same point reached in 2008. Now it's a game of waiting for the break down of the American economy once again.
Anyway, back to the point of this post: I've never been worried about Trump, as being a person of colour—full disclosure, I'm a person of brown colour; a First Nations, or Indigenous Canadian—I've seen all this before. I felt it was just going to be more of the same old, same old in terms of racialized politics. And I was proven right. Trump's just trying to out-brutalize his predecessors. There are true believers in the racialized politics of the US-Mexico border, but Trump's just being an opportunist.
On the other hand, I've always been worried about what sort of presidency could possibly follow Trumps'. In this case, it could very well be Michael Bloomberg, oligarch, propagandist, and former authoritarian mayor of New York City. He's gained control of NYC's police forces, and used it to terrorize the Black community for over a decade. The stories that are beginning to flow out of NYC are just horrifying. It gives thought to the danger of ICE-style policing making their way into the cities, USA-wide. It's already bad, with these sorts of police-tactics in African-American neighbourhoods: Broken Window Theory. But ICE is an other level bad. It's back to the bad old days of Jim Crow.
Bloomberg says he's apologized, but his apology was the typical Boomer apology non-apology. Just complete and utter bullshit from a man who doesn't believe what he had done, and perpetrated to have done any actual lasting impact.
Yeah, I can see the future. Bloomberg in control of America's police forces in-total is an utterly terrifying prospect. He's a true believer in the usage of police force. It would be the further racialized militarization of the USA's police forces. It would be Broken Windows theory in overdrive.
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