It's malevolence. Tristero has an interesting post at Hullabaloo about the fact that there never was a plan for reuniting separated families.
I guess in a way it's somewhat comforting to say that Trump and his thugs are incompetent -- sort of "Keystone Kops Run the Country". That way we don't have to worry so much. The fact of the matter is that they're not incompetent -- they're very good at what they're doing, which is to remake the US into a tin-pot dictatorship. The fact that they have no humanity at all just makes it easier for them.
A case in point:
That's Brian Kilmeade on Fox and Friends, Trump's biggest cheerleaders. And don't think the choice of states to mention wasn't deliberate.
They're a bunch of psychopaths.
Update: Betty Cracker at Balloon Juice has a post on Trump honoring the "Angel Families":
She included this, which as far as I'm concerned is not much of a stretch: We know Trump is a racist, his base is racist, and his strongest support is among white supremacists and Nazis.
I don't take this last thing as a goal in itself -- it's a tactic. The goal is to stay in power for life.
The Trump administration never had a plan to re-unite children ripped from their mothers. And the media has gone out of its way to publicize that lack of a plan and to blame it on Trump's incompetence. The emphasis on incompetence obscures the fact that this lack of planning was intentional. . . .
Another way to say this is that the thugs who make up the Trump administration are not merely logistically incompetent. They are morally incompetent as well. They have not a shred of human decency.
I guess in a way it's somewhat comforting to say that Trump and his thugs are incompetent -- sort of "Keystone Kops Run the Country". That way we don't have to worry so much. The fact of the matter is that they're not incompetent -- they're very good at what they're doing, which is to remake the US into a tin-pot dictatorship. The fact that they have no humanity at all just makes it easier for them.
A case in point:
And these are not — like it or not, these aren’t our kids. Show them compassion, but it’s not like he is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas. And these are not — like it or not, these aren’t our kids. Show them compassion, but it’s not like he is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas.
That's Brian Kilmeade on Fox and Friends, Trump's biggest cheerleaders. And don't think the choice of states to mention wasn't deliberate.
They're a bunch of psychopaths.
Update: Betty Cracker at Balloon Juice has a post on Trump honoring the "Angel Families":
WATCH LIVE: President Trump is making new comments on immigration with "Angel families" -- families affected by crimes committed by undocumented immigrants https://t.co/aK4R8XyxD8 pic.twitter.com/rs1C0BNzlB
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 22, 2018
She included this, which as far as I'm concerned is not much of a stretch: We know Trump is a racist, his base is racist, and his strongest support is among white supremacists and Nazis.
I don't take this last thing as a goal in itself -- it's a tactic. The goal is to stay in power for life.
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