Trump And GOP Destroy The America It Took Two Centuries To Build In Just Two Days

January 27, 2017 will go down as a day of shame in American history. It is hard to imagine a US President could be so blatantly racist and cruel in this day and age. It wasn’t enough that he had to subtly feed the conspiracy of Holocaust denial by not mentioning Jews at all in his statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day, only saying , “It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror.” No, he had to follow that up with his racist executive order that targets Muslims and refugees on the very same day. The fact that no terrorist from any of the seven banned countries has ever attacked the US is irrelevant. The fact that Muslim nations where Trump does business are not on the list is highly relevant. The fact that it was implemented in Trump’s slapdash and amateur fashion is relevant. The fact that it is already effecting already vetted refugees, visa holders, and even green card holders is sickening in its cruelty. And the fact that Christians will now be given preferential treatment is just plain racist.

This follows on the heels of the executive order that paves the way for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and the creation of a mass deportation force to do so. Make no mistake, this is what Trump plans to do. He may couch the order as an attempt to go after only criminals but the order makes it clear that something as minor as a parking ticket is grounds for deportation.

Meanwhile, the silence is deafening from Republicans in Congress, despite their supposed opposition to these proposals during the campaign, proving once again that the GOP is always a profile in cowardice and lusts only for power. And if you really want to be sickened, read some of the pro-Trump commentary on Twitter.

Abraham Lincoln is spinning in his grave. In just two days, Trump and his sycophants in the GOP have destroyed the good will that it took this country over two centuries to build. And for many Americans and others around the world, Holocaust Remembrance Day will take on an added significance from this day forward.

I should also add that these orders by Trump are beyond horrible and incredibly frightening. But they also deflect from the very real possibility that the Trump administration has committed treason, outing two high ranking US intelligence assets in the Russian intelligence services to the Russians. As we have learned from other authoritarian regimes, it is quite common for them to create new horrors to deflect attention from their old horrors.