‘Alligator Auschwitz’, the concentration camp built in the Everglades, really brings out the race hatred in Trump and the MAGA world. Did you see the smiles of jubilation when they described alligators eating 65 million immigrants? While liberals are aghast at the cruelty of the concentration camp, MAGA folks are rubbing their hands in glee. With MAGA, cruelty is the point. MAGA would love to see a photo of an alligator eating an immigrant. The Trumpies were actually selling souvenir merchandise for the concentration camp.
Cruelty is precisely the point
To state that those immigrants are sub-standard is racism. But rejoicing in their suffering is outright and overt hatred.
The hatred developed when leaders like Trump convinced the out-of-work laborer that immigrants had taken his job. Or the student who wasn’t admitted to a college, where he was told that less-qualified minorities were admitted ahead of him. Trump was able to instill a sense of grievance in those white supremacists, which became not just a belief in white supremacy, but an intense hatred of those non-whites whom Trump was able to label as rapists, murderers, and eaters of your pets.
Another example is that guy Garcia, who was sent to the El Salvador gulag but was recently brought back. Liberals are infuriated by the photos of those prisoners being marched through the prison, and they are further horrified to hear Garcia’s descriptions of the torture and deprivations in the concentration camp. But Republicans are overjoyed to see this guy – painted falsely by Trump as an M-13 terrorist – suffer to the max. Schadenfreude to the max.
I fear that the recent Big Beautiful Bill could make matters worse. Millions of white people will lose their Medicaid or Medicare, and will certainly not blame Trump. Trump will trot out examples of non-white people getting free health care, and that will exacerbate the feelings of grievance of his base.
So where does one cross the line between racism and race hatred? After all, slaveowners didn’t hate their slaves. I guess the answer must be that grievance is that red line. Not just fear, but a feeling that the minority race is making your life harder. Signs that the ‘Great Replacement’ is actually happening. That’s why Trump’s war on DEI is so effective. Remember that Trump even tried to blame that deadly airplane crash on DEI, even though there were no minorities involved. His argument was that DEI policies caused stress to the white pilots so that they could not do their jobs properly.
Too many white people feel that minorities and immigrants have taken their jobs or gained unfair admission to universities. “Affirmative action” may be the most harmful policy against race relations in American history. The backlash of hatred is turning out to be deadly.