Did You Ever Wish Trump Would Die?
The racism of Ron DeSantis.
There’s a lot of us who are convinced that Trump single-handedly made it in style to be racist again.
Not that he invented racism. Or that America was post-racial when he came onto the scene. Or that we didn’t still have so much work to do. Or even that our current president has such a clean past on race issues. We ought not to be naïve.
It’s just that Trump gave a renewed voice for the most racist to spew whatever horrific bigotry lay beneath the surface. Not just from their basements or hiding under their white sheets, but out loud in our legislatures, boardrooms, the streets, on the news, and online, of course.
With all of Trump’s racist rhetoric and presidential good people on both sides nod to Nazis, how many of us at some point secretly hoped that Trump would just die? How many of us prayed he would keel over after one of his Big Macs? Or at least dreamt of his demise.
You wouldn’t be human if it didn’t cross your mind at least once.
But there’s an old Jewish mashal (short parable with a lesson) we should take note of.
There once was a king who passed all kinds of laws that discriminated against the Jews in his kingdom. He made horrific statements about them. He taxed them extra…
