President Donald Trump meets with outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci/File)
by Fred Logan
Trump’s base can break up and Trump can fall. But that would not, by a long shot, be the end of the open White right-wing reaction now surging across the USA.
Waiting in the wings are Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and other self-appointed Trump heirs. They are ready and praying for Trump to fall. Trump’s is not monolithic.
Trump is not super human. The Soviet Union fell. Trump’s base can break up and Trump can fall from right-wing grace.
Remember, US polls and expert political pundits predicted Hillary Clinton would beat Barack Obama in 2008 and later Clinton would beat Trump in 2016. These White experts can’t predict White America!
Monitor the US right, a hard, bitter argument is raging in Trump’s base. It will grow. The right will try to keep it on the QT.
FRED LOGAN
Trump did not create the White right. He capitalized on the boiling White reaction that was always there. But before Trump barged on the scene, the so-called mainstream American news media laughed at US right wing reaction, dismissed it, and called it the “the fringe.” Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Donald J. Trump among others were called “the fringe.”’
In the immediate hours after the historic May 30, 2024 “Guilty” verdict, the Trump base was loud and bold. But five months of internal bitter arguments are facing these folks over their Number One worry: What does a convicted Donald Trump, with more state and federal trials in front of him, mean for their future right-wing interests of “White Wealth, White Power, White Privilege and White Status?” That is not just over subjective ideas, but over food on their table, their mortgage, their health care, their employment, that is their material collective European American self-interests.
I agree with the overwhelming dominant opinion in the national Black community. Trump’s hard-core base is millions of White fanatics produced by 400-plus years of White racism. Still, that base can shatter by internal division.
What would that mean for the local Black community in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and in the U.S. Pennsylvania 12th congressional district?
We need our own African American Roundtables, Think Tanks, PAC, and networks to battle with that and with everything else White right-wing reaction throws at us.
Trump can fall and his base can break up.
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