Trump Raises an Army -

Trump Raises an Army -
The final assessment on how this administration handles the storm can’t be made while it still rages,
but what Trump says and does now is open to analysis.
When asked about pardoning former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio as Harvey was making landfall, Trump responded:
“Actually, in the middle of a hurricane, even though it was a Friday evening, I assumed the ratings would be far higher than they would be normally.”
Consider what this man is saying: He used the horror and anxious anticipation of a monster storm menacing millions of Americans — particularly in Houston whose population is 44 percent Hispanic — in a political calculation to get more ratings and more eyeballs on the fact
that he was using the power of the presidency to forgive, and thereby condone, Arpaio’s racism.
According to a July analysis by the Tax Policy Center, “Nearly 40 percent of the tax cut would flow to households in
the top 1 percent of the income distribution, giving those earners an average annual tax cut of around $270,000.”
Establishment Republicans see him as a path to reversing the New Deal.
You do this by defending monuments of Confederates who fought to preserve the noxious institution of slavery,
and you do it by tweeting the coded language of white supremacists: “Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments.”
You do this by pardoning Arpaio, a man who joked about an Arizona jail being a “concentration
camp,” signaling to people that racist brutality is permissible.