Heil, Boss Trump. Trump's love of Nazi rhetoric and symbolic gestures is becoming a habit, as well as his dog whistles to white nationalists and supremacists. This should not be passed off as a tongue slip or an intern goof. Watch how frequently he uses the Aryan fist. It is a closed fist, turned forward and sometimes pumped from a bent arm. Once the symbol of black power, it has become currently the symbol of white power as the fist becomes white and the background changes to black.
Reports and polls indicate that more racial minorities are toying with supporting Trump. They need to get a grip on reality that a second Trump term will not treat them fairly or the same as his friends since the cultish body of his supporters contains so many racist white nationalists and their sympathizers. The white supremacists get the message, even if you look the other way.
Add this Aryan fist pump to his lists of Hitler worship references: dog-whistling to white racists using terms like: "immigrants poisoning our blood", and "Reich" as a goal like Hitler's goal of establishing a Third Reich empire (oops, blame the intern) neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville are "fine people," too, which was the epic false equivalency that inspired Biden to run for president, and the call to activism of the white supremacist Proud Boys on January 6 to riot. Trump has been heard to call white supremacists "my people".
ALTERNATE NAMES: White Power Fist, White FistThe upright clenched fist has long been used as a symbol (both graphically and as a hand gesture) to represent themes such as defiance, unity, and power. In the 1960s and 1970s, black nationalist groups in the United States and elsewhere often used a dark-skinned clenched fist gesture or image as a "black power" symbol. By the 1980s, white supremacists in the United States and elsewhere had appropriated this symbol, substituting a white fist. White supremacists frequently claim that they use the symbol to represent "white pride" or "white power."
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A friend of mine, a Hispanic immigrant with newly acquired documents, was bemoaning Denver becoming such a destination and transit point for those migrants without documents. He himself said, "Trump will fix it," indicating if he could vote, he would vote for Trump. I took that to mean Trump will put such migrants in concentration camps and deport them. If that is the fix, then those who made it have little sympathy for their compatriots coming later. If that puzzles those who think birds of a feather should flock together, they should not be surprised. That is not the first time I have encountered that. I once asked a dear Asian friend of mine to explain this lack of sympathy to me about why those who went to the pain and effort to get to the US looked disdainfully at those later arrivals of the same race. He told me that this was common and that those like him, a descendent of Japanese-Americans imprisoned in World War II, did look with disdain at new arrivals they called "hot off the boat." I thought about it later and wondered if it was because new arrivals competed for jobs with them or that they should not have it easy, too, or they were somehow culturally inferior late-coming refugees? Any ideas? What I do know is if you are required" to show me your documents" to prove to a law officer demanding this because you look Hispanic, that will get an indignant reaction and a revolt against such anti-civil rights infringements and racial profiling. By then, if Trump wins, it will be too late because, as he promises, he will also control the Justice Department and the super majority of the Supreme Court.
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