Donald Trump’s repeated tirade against his former transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, in scathing anti-Asian rants is not just “disgusting” but politically imbecile, a Bloomberg columnist warned on Saturday.
Trump’s racism is foolishly alienating a powerful voting bloc with “growing influence,” wrote Robert A. George.
If the Republican Party doesn’t have the guts to confront Trump because of his “ideological or moral deficiencies,” “how about doing it for crass political purposes?” churches.
George was clearly referring to Trump’s relentless and blatantly racist attacks on Social Truth against Chao, apparently largely as a way to get back at his political nemesis, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — and to what Chao left the Trump administration after what violence. the revolt of January 6, 2021.
Trump’s attacks echo the youth’s renaming of COVID-19 as the “Kung flu,” but are worse, George argued.
Calling a Taiwanese-American woman “Coco Chow” … “crosses a line rarely seen in politics (at least if you don’t count Trump),” writes George. Racist “insults,” as Chao notes, are “painfully common for many Asian Americans,” he notes.
Chao, who kept quiet about the attacks for a month, finally told Politico in a statement earlier this week: “When I was young, some people misspelled my name or mispronounced it. Asian Americans have worked hard to change this experience for the next generation,” he added. Trump “doesn’t seem to understand this, which says a lot more about him than it does about Asian Americans.”
The backlash will be on Trump and the Republicans, George warned. Trump’s behavior and lack of Republican criticism are so “politically stupid,” he noted, because many Asian Americans seem open to Republican politics. But Trump’s “animosity is almost pathological” and likely won’t be contained or controlled by his party, George noted.
He warned that if Trump “continues to make racist remarks about an Asian-American woman who has served more than four Republican administrations (including his own) — while other Republicans say nothing repudiatory — well, the ads 2024 Democratic politics basically explains them. themselves. Especially if Trump is the nominee.
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