Trump's Agents in Full Fascist Mode

A girl from Honduras, part of the migrant caravan
in Tijuana, Mexico, cries after US agents in California
deployed tear gas across the San Ysidro border,
(Reuters, via BBC).

Update: If you are a thinking human being, you owe it to yourself to read Richard Falk's analysis on Israel's ongoing human rights obscenity, from which Trump appears to take pointers on American fascism. Military and police units of the loyal state-friend of Trump shoot children, and Israel and assorted dopes emit the argument that criticizing violators of human rights implicates the critic.

Writes Falk:

In 2014 Noam Chomsky explained the false logic of such an allegation with typical moral and intellectual clarity: "Actually, the locus classicus, the best formulation of this, was by an ambassador to the United Nations, Abba Eban, […] He advised the American Jewish community that they had two tasks to perform. One task was to show that criticism of the policy, what he called anti-Zionism — that means actually criticisms of the policy of the state of Israel — were anti-Semitism. That’s the first task. Second task, if the criticism was made by Jews, their task was to show that it’s neurotic self-hatred, needs psychiatric treatment. Then he gave two examples of the latter category. One was I.F. Stone. The other was me. So, we have to be treated for our psychiatric disorders, and non-Jews have to be condemned for anti-Semitism, if they’re critical of the state of Israel. That’s understandable why Israeli propaganda would take this position. I don’t particularly blame Abba Eban for doing what ambassadors are sometimes supposed to do. But we ought to understand that there is no sensible charge. No sensible charge. There’s nothing to respond to. It’s not a form of anti-Semitism. It’s simply criticism of the criminal actions of a state, period."

Look for a similar line from the Trump administration soon: Those objecting to imprisonment, gassing and disappearing of children are the real culprits, perhaps to be dealt with by the state through means other than rhetoric.
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What human garbage Trump is.

The white supremacist administration is gassing children across the US-Mexican border, following its program of state-kidnapping and disappearing of children implemented last Spring.

Trump administration announced earlier this year imprisonment and forced separation of children from parents are deterrents intended to discourage asylum seekers fleeing carnage in central America.

It is clear that brutality against brown children is an objective in itself apart from other stated aims.

The deployment of the military on the US-Mexican border is also another objective apart from any stated mission.

Parallels exist in rightwing Israel where Israeli border troops shoot off the legs of Palestinian teenagers in its shoot-to-maim policy, (The Independent, Washington Post).

Meanwhile, rightwing violence is on the rise in the domestic United States, (Washington Post).

Witness America:

BREAKING A girl from Honduras, part of the migrant caravan in Tijuana, Mexico, cries after US agents in California deployed tear gas across the San Ysidro border.
📷 @Reuters/@topixkim pic.twitter.com/sGs4rjG4Oz

— James Cook (@BBCJamesCook) November 25, 2018

BREAKING US agents have fired tear gas at migrants trying to breach the border between Mexico and the United States.
📷 @Reuters pic.twitter.com/d7fTNnbxxS

— James Cook (@BBCJamesCook) November 25, 2018

Let it be known that the @GOP owns every last bit of this.

Tear gassing women and children will be part of your legacy, you incompetent, inhumane, awful excuses for human beings.

History will not be kind to a single one of you.

🖕

— Stacie (@h8Wankmaggot45) November 26, 2018

Trump's 14th Amendment Nonsense Made Fool of Gov Scott Walker in 2015

Brown people are invading and the Jews are helping.
So say Trump, Scott Walker and the whole bunch of
mass-murdering, anti-Semitic whacks, (Twitter).

Madison, Wisconsin — In 2015 Donald Trump was scoring points with white supremacists voicing his intentions to somehow halt the 14th Amendment citizenship guarantee.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said, me too, making a fool out of himself in the process, (Mal Contends).

Jenna Johnson of the Washington Post had fun at Walker's expense, reporting the Wisconsin governor's multiple interpretations of the14th Amendment, weeks before Walker ended his campaign for the Republican Party nomination for president amid God's calls for Walker to quit the race.

Reports Johnson:

Walker said Monday that he supports ending birthright citizenship, then said later in the day that the problem could be addressed by enforcing other laws. On Tuesday, a prominent donor confronted Walker on the topic and walked away satisfied that the candidate wouldn't do away with birthright citizenship. On Friday, Walker said he didn't have a position on the issue. Then Sunday, Walker said he does not want to alter the 14th Amendment.

And writes CNN's Eric Bradner at the time:

The Wisconsin governor and Republican presidential candidate was asked on ABC's 'This Week' whether he backs Trump's push to end the 14th Amendment's mandate that all children born in the United States are automatically granted citizenship.

'Well, I said the law is there. And we need to enforce the laws, including those that are in the Constitution,' Walker said

Laws in the Constitution?
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Now, Trump is hoping to excite Republican Party racists for the midterm elections by claiming the power to change citizenship law and the 14th Amendment through executive order.

Trump and Walker are racists.

While this Trump stunt may seem a distraction to some, there is a fight to be had as events the last week make abundantly clear.

It's the fight Trump and Walker want. So be it.

Opposing Trump is a civic duty and moral responsibility.

And these people are racist lunatics.

Trump wants to unconstitutionally end birthright citizenship but add a discriminatory question about US citizenship to the 2020 census. That tells you everything you need to know

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 30, 2018

Under Trump, DoD Is Abruptly Discharging Immigrants Serving in Army on Scurrilous Grounds

The white supremacist Trump administration has abruptly discharged dozens of immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits, the Associated Press reports.

Martha Mendoza and Garance Burke report:

The AP was unable to quantify how many men and women who enlisted through the special recruitment program have been booted from the Army, but immigration attorneys say they know of more than 40 who have been discharged or whose status has become questionable, jeopardizing their futures.

'It was my dream to serve in the military,' said reservist Lucas Calixto, a Brazilian immigrant who filed a lawsuit against the Army last week. 'Since this country has been so good to me, I thought it was the least I could do to give back to my adopted country and serve in the United States military.'

An Army report obtained by an immigration attorney, featured in an AP video, notes that one servicemember was discharged after Army investigators discovered an American flag on the man's cell phone and an Army bumper sticker on his car, activity that the Army claimed in a report is "suspicious."

This is more purging of American society by the Trump adminstration which has become openly racist and aggressive in the preceding weeks following its targeting of immigrant families and the forced relocation of children into internment centers and cages.

U.S. Agents in Child-Detention Center Mock Wailing Children, Hysterical Children Heard on Audio

Sub-human garbage at U.S. Customs and Border Protection
facility mock children screaming for their parents, (Propublica).

White Supremacist Party Is Now Pro-Child Abuse 

ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a child-detention camp in which frightened children are wailing, begging and screaming for their "Mami" and "Papá" over and over again, (Thompson, ProPublica).

The U.S. agents can be heard on the audio mocking the children.

What did you do you when they came for the  children?

ProPublica reports:

The audio obtained by ProPublica breaks that silence. It was recorded last week inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility. The person who made the recording asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation. That person gave the audio to Jennifer Harbury, a well-known civil rights attorney who has lived and worked for four decades in the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas border with Mexico. Harbury provided it to ProPublica. She said the person who recorded it was a client who 'heard the children’s weeping and crying, and was devastated by it.'

NAZIs.

Milwaukee Hate Crime—Mass Murderer Found Unfit for Trial

From Milwaukee County, with hate

Life is cheap in Milwaukee if you are an ethnic minority.

That's the message Milwaukee County Circuit Judge J.D. Watts delivered to Milwaukee County.

Watts ruled Dan J. Popp is unfit to stand trial after murdering a Puerto Rican man and Hmong couple on March 6, 2016, and attempting to kill all members of two minority families who had the temerity to breathe and live in their homes, (Sameer Rao, Colorlines), (Mal Contends), and (Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).

From ColorLines:

As we reported last month, Popp faces three counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide. According to a criminal complaint and witness testimony, Popp allegedy went to Jesus Manso-Perez and his teenage son's apartment and asked where they were from.

When he learned they were from Puerto Rico, Popp reportedly said, 'Oh, that's why you don't speak English, before shooting at them and killing the elder Manso-Perez. The complaint said that Popp then went to the nearby apartment of Hmong couple Phia Vue and Mai K. Vue, where he fatally shot them in front of their children.

Some of the victims' family members joined with a coalition of 22 community advocacy groups that cuts across many of Milwaukee's racial and ethnic communities to demand additional hate crime charges. 'Lives were taken because of Dan J. Popp's hatred for those who are different from him,' Tou Xiong, Mai K. Vue's brother, told reporters.

"From the beginning of this case people were rushing to say, 'Oh this was a mental illness issue,'" Darryl Morin of the League of United Latin American Citizens said while speaking on behalf of the Manso-Perez family yesterday. "Every expert we've spoken to on the issue of hate crimes has said there's always been some degree of mental illness involved."

It's open season on minorities in America, and racism remains as American as Mom and Applepie.

Hate and Murder

They Thought They Were Free,
The Germans, 1933-45;
(University of Chicago Press.
©1955)
by Milton Mayer

"Someone perceived as a Latino will soon be murdered; you can count on it," (Mal Contends, June 2014).

Not surprising to read the latest mass murder and hate crime occurred in Milwaukee where segregation and hate fuel the Republican Party of Wisconsin and Scott Walker.

Ashley Luthern reports in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (March 10) a white man, Dan J. Popp, "methodically shot and killed three of his neighbors at point-blank range" on March 6 on a Sunday afternoon.

It was a hate crime. The victims are Jesus R. Manso-Perez, 40; Phia Vue, 36; and Mai K. Vue, 32. The three victims are Puerto Rican and Hmong.

A candlelight vigil in support of the victims was held yesterday in Milwaukee, noted Tammie Xiong, Executive Director of the Milwaukee Hmong American Women's Association. "Hate speech leads to hate crimes," read a sign held at the vigil.

The Journal-Sentinel's Luthern notes in her chilling report, citing the criminal complaint against Popp filed late last week:

Popp then asked where they, [Jesus R. Manso-Perez and his son], were from and the father and son replied Puerto Rico.

The son later told police that Popp replied: 'Oh, that's why you don't speak English. You're Puerto Rican.'

Manso-Perez and his son continued to the basement where they got the washing machine started. As they climbed the stairs back to their apartment, Popp stood over them on a landing. He was armed with a rifle.

The son told police Popp pointed the gun at his father — saying, 'You guys got to go' — and pulled the trigger.

Manso-Perez was shot in the head.

As his son turned to run toward the front door, he glanced up and saw Popp point the gun at him. He heard a second shot, which he told police he believed was meant for him. ...

Thia Vue, his wife, Mai Vue, and their four children lived in another unit in the apartment complex. The couple had been out of town most of the weekend, leaving a 25-year-old relative to baby-sit the children.

Soon after they returned home on Sunday, there was a knock on the door.

It was Popp. The 25-year-old relative answered the door and Popp asked her if someone was knocking. She told him no and he left.

A short time later, the family heard several gunshots coming from the apartment hallway. It was not clear in court records if the sound they heard was Popp shooting Manso-Perez or firing randomly in the hallway.

Hearing the gunshots, Phia and Mai Vue, their four children and the adult relative hid in a bedroom together. They heard pounding on their apartment door and Mai gave the relative a cellphone to call police.

Popp kicked down the front door, made his way into the bedroom and pointed the rifle at Phia, ordering him to leave.

Phia followed Popp, and his family inside the bedroom heard two or three gunshots. Officers found Phia dead in the bathroom. He had a gunshot wound to the head.

Popp returned to the bedroom and began to drag Mai and her two young daughters out of the apartment while the older relative and other children followed. Some were able to run outside.

"Hate crimes are nothing new. You have a family that has four kids without a mom and dad. As a community we are rallying around the family, and working with relatives to provide support," said Ms. Xiong. "This is nothing new. Sad to say we are not surprised."

Adds Xiong, "It's really important to acknowledge the hurt the the Hmong community faces here in Milwaukee. We really hope justice will be served for the families of this crime. We need as human beings to respect each other. To even have this conversation in 2016 is shameful."

Xiong describes the Hmong community as "close-knit."

The four Hmong Vue children reportedly range in age from approximately six-years-old to 13. Manso-Perez' surviving son is 18.

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo wrote a piece on Saturday entitled "Someone Will Die".

As hate is preached at the highest levels of American political culture, you should really consider reading Marshall's piece. Fascism is in the air.

"Operation Wetback" Praised by Donald Trump, Notes NBC News

"Trump is right about one thing: We do have a country. We have a country where all people - not specifically citizens - are considered equal. We have a country moving towards full inclusion and civil rights for all. We have a country with values anathema to the xenophobia that inspired 'Operation Wetback,'" writes Raul A. Reyes at NBC News, noting Tuesday's debate in Milwaukee.

Trump and the Republican Party's rhetoric aimed at ethnic minorities is becoming more and more dangerous, and morally repulsive.

Will one candidate for the Republican Party's nomination for the presidency speak up and call out this racist crap for what it is?

During the debate in Milwaukee no one did.

White-out at GOP Pres Debate

Haven't seen this many white people since I lived in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

Check out Joe Wilson's shot below of the "audience at the Coors Events Center at the University of Colorado Boulder on Wednesday during the Republican presidential debate." (Wilson, New York Times).

Not so popular with the brown and black folks, wonder why?

The audience at the Coors Events Center at the University of Colorado Boulder
on Wednesday during the Republican presidential debate.
Jim Wilson, New York Times

Latinos Tell GOP: Stop Demonizing

The forces of hate in the Republican Party are loosed upon a population already targeted by the rightwing.

Republican Latinos, are speaking up on the eve of tonight's GOP debate and delivering a message to Republicans: Knock it off.

Without demonizing black and brown, the Republican Party is listless.

Allegra Kirkland at TPM has the story:

According to NBC, Tony Suarez, Executive Vice President of the National Hispanic Leadership Conference, said Trump's candidacy 'needs to be canceled like his last reality TV program.'

Mr. Trump has become a promoter of hate, division and insult,' Suarez said. 'If Mr. Trump were to be the Republican nominee — I don't think he has a chance at winning the general election.'

I doubt if Trump or any Republican contending for the presidential nomination will say, 'enough hate, now' tonight.

Hate is what the Republican Party does.

Scott Walker Was the Rick Perry of the 2016 Campaign

Scott Walker's SuperPac running
today on Google ads -
Unintimidated

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist, Dan Bice, wrote in April 2013 that Scott Walker is not an "ideas guy," suggesting someone as error-prone as Walker who can't think on his feet "could earn him the distinction of being the Gov. Perry of the 2016 campaign." (Daniel Bice chat transcript on Thursday, April 18, 2013) (Mal Contends)

Ooops.

Bice turned out to be right. Hope the Journal-Sentinel doesn't fire the guy.

Walker's attempt to answer (and mostly avoid) fundamental public policy questions doomed his campaign making Walker's bosses, the moneyed special interests from whom Walker takes orders, nervous they backed the wrong sock puppet.

For fun reading before the Noon games today:

• Juan Cole's Top Cringe Worthy Foreign Policy Moments in GOP Debate
• Mike Allen and Alex Isenstadt's 'It's a f---ing bitch, man,'  
• Frank Bruni's Scott Walker’s Cocktail of Ignorance

An Ooops moment, Scott Walker's whole campaign is a Ooops moment.

Scott Walker Now Refuses to Take "Position" on 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause

Scott Walker heard Donald Trump's reading of the citizenship-birthright clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and had to get in on this toxic appeal to nativism and bigotry—Walker's political wheelhouse.

"Shortly after Donald Trump released his immigration policy proposal on Monday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker assured reporters that he agreed with Trump's opposition to 'birthright citizenship,'" reported Phillip Bump in the Washington Post. "Absolutely," we should end "birthright citizenship," Walker said to NBC's Kasie Hunt.

On Friday, Scott Walker changed his mind and told CNBC's John Harwood that "I’m not taking a position on it one way or the other." (CNBC - Scott Walker talks birthright citizenship)

How can a candidate for the presidency not take a position on this pillar of American citizenship enshrined in Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment?

Scott Walker can because Walker does not have the slightest conception of common law, constitutional law and judicial policymaking.

Walker did explain in a Tweet Friday that he earlier agreed with Trump's position on the Fourteenth Amendment because he was "tired." (Blue Cheddar) (ThinkProgress) (CognitiveDissidence)

What?

Don't look for a detailed position paper outlining Walker's Constitutional analysis: 'It's August-hot in Iowa and I'm tired, enough of Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment.'

Walker did hint at his Constitutional acumen in 2013. In determining the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of expression does not apply to speech that is critical of Walker, Walker's administration ordered 100s arrested and fined.

U.S. District Court Judge William M. Conley and state courts disagreed with Walker and ordered restoration of the First Amendment at the Wisconsin Capitol, as well as civil recovery of attorneys' fees and other costs. (Mal Contends)

This is why Scott Walker avoids townhall-style listening sessions and unscripted sit-down interviews. He doesn't know anything, ala Sarah Palin. (Mal Contends)

No one expects a presidential candidate to be a Laurence Tribe or a Richard Posner, but being a student of the United States Constitution is critical to serving as POTUS.

This has been a bad month for the candidate of the Koch brothers, the Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation and the corporate bill mill, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

As Walker is forced into discussing public policy, it is becoming readily apparent that Walker is in over his head.

This ignorance is dangerous, as seen when Walker pushed for more secrecy in Walker's aborted scheme to gut Wisconsin's Open Records law.

Walker is a lightweight who takes orders from billionaires and other donors funding his campaign.

Can you imagine Scott Walker as president?

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist, Dan Bice, wrote in April 2013 that Scott Walker is not an "ideas guy," suggesting someone as error-prone as Walker who can't think on his feet "could earn him the distinction of being the Gov. Perry of the 2016 campaign." (Daniel Bice chat transcript on Thursday, April 18, 2013) (Mal Contends)

We're there.

Five weeks-plus into his campaign after his July 13 announcement for the presidency, Scott Walker has earned the distinction of being the candidate who does not, like, know anything, to borrow from Juan Cole.

Scott Walker—Screened Questions from Press, Lies, and Fades in Wisconsin

A desperate Scott Walker tanks in Wisconsin as favorability
rating falls into the 30s (Milewski, Capital Times)

"Was on Gov. Walker health plan press call. First time as a reporter I've ever had my questions pre-screened before I could ask them," said Stephanie Armour, The Wall Street Journal's health care policy reporter. (Byers, Politico) (Caffeinated Politics)

That mean Stephanie Armour was likely going to ask some public policy question of the erstwhile candidate for the presidency.

Meanwhile, Scott Walker's allies in the Wisconsin legislature want to exempt public integrity and public corruption crimes from Wisconsin's John Doe law that has been on the books since the 19th century (Opoien, Capital Times) (Berghahn, Hurley, Burish and Stanton)

Walker's favorability rating has dropped into the 30s in Wisconsin. (Milewski, Capital Times)

And Walker keeps on telling his made-up story on the stump about a teacher who has again requested Walker stop it. (Strauss, Washington Post)

Maybe Walker could ask the teacher to offer a lesson on the Fourteenth Amendment.

See why Walker avoids townhall-style, question-and-answer sessions, holding precisely zero as governor of Wisconsin?

Scott Walker is depicted at below-right:

Scott Walker Says Repeal 14th Amendment Birthright Citizenship Clause

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
— 14th Amendment, Section One

No, say Republicans.

Cray, cray—as in crazy and immoral, will say Hispanics and Latinos, and most other Americans.

Scott Walker, Donald Trump and other Republicans say they want to repeal the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment as they compete to show racist Republican voters how much they despise immigrants.

"Shortly after Donald Trump released his immigration policy proposal on Monday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker assured reporters that he agreed with Trump's opposition to 'birthright citizenship.' The Huffington Post did a quick count and figured that at least five other 2016 Republican candidates did, too," reports Phillip Bump in the Washington Post.

Elsewhere in the Post, Paul Waldman suggests Republicans with their nativism and crazy talk in immigration may have just handed the White House to the Democratic Party nominee.

Writes Waldman:

[Y]ou can’t say you’re pro-immigrant and advocate ending birthright citizenship. You just can’t.

I promise you that next fall, there are going to be ads like this running all over the country, and especially on Spanish-language media:

'My name is Lisa Hernandez. I was born in California, grew up there. I was valedictorian of my high school class, graduated from Yale, and now I’m in medical school; I’m going to be a pediatrician. But now Scott Walker and the Republicans say that because my mom is undocumented, that I’m not a real American and I shouldn’t be a citizen. I’m living the American Dream, but they want to take it away from me and people like me. Well I’ve got a message for you, Governor Walker. I’m every bit as American as your children. This country isn’t about who your parents were, it’s about everybody having a chance to work hard, achieve, and contribute to our future. It seems like some people forgot that.'

Amen.

Republican Hate-mongering 'Illegals' Rhetoric

Grand Old Party of Hate

Update: Scott Walker says he would repeal President Obama's "amnesty" on Day One, in one of Walker's self-proclaimed "big, bold" ideas: "For goodness sakes, we’re seeing the real – the very real – public safety risk for what happens when you have people who commit multiple, multiple criminal offenses. They are a public safety risk to anyone in this country." (Breitbart) Who knew multiple, multiple criminals were invading and rampaging America, creating a public safety risk to anyone in this country? Republican racists know, though this is sheer, hate-mongering nonsense.
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"Long past time for media to stop calling people 'illegals,'" reads a headline from DesMoinesDem writing in the Bleeding Heartland from Iowa.

The Iowa writer also hits GOP politicians, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Radio Iowa and its 50-plus affiliate Iowa radio stations (division of Learfield Communications) for their continued use of the racially charged invective Republicans use to appeal to rural whites in America still in thrall to anything injurious to the other—them.

That goes for Fox News too, but one miracle at a time.

White and racist equals Republican Party today. Whites for liberty and equality vote for someone else.

Didn't always be that way, but appeals to racism are a main stable of the Republican political diet.

Throw in evangelical Christianitites and you have an Iowa Caucus election custom-made for Scott Walker, though Walker's faltering campaign has many anti-Latino, anti-equality and misogynistic rivals looking at other candidates with demonstrable knowledge of public policy.

Republican candidates for president see racist appeals and voter obstruction of minorities as a winning combination, and decency will not prevent the GOP from sowing the seeds of hate. (Mal Contends) (J.P. Green) (Mal Contends) (James Vega)

The Tea Party Wants a White Homeland; Support Obama's Immigration Plan

"Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger -- we were strangers once, too. My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too." -- President Obama, November 20, 2014 (White House)

Don't care much what Scripture tells us, but I like the sentiment expressed last night.

So-called Christians are going to have to square their professed beliefs in compassion, decency and kindness with the first steps of making immigrant families Americans, attacked by motley crew of racists, and rightwing militants.

The rightwing is screaming "anarchy," "censure" the president (Fund, The National Review), (Cost, The Weekly Standard); and Obama is acting like a "king" and a "monarch," (Rand Paul)—no surprise from Paul with his racist past.

Right alongside the relatively restrained rhetoric comes the openly racist warnings from the whites-only crowd.

The long-standing position of StormFront maintains its warning the "immigrant invasion threatens America's survival"—right next to the odious group's disquisitions on: Was There Really A Holocaust?

President Obama should welcome the enmity of The White Party of America now firmly embedded in the Republican Party.

There is a mass sentiment in America for out-and-out fascism (though not pervasive enough to win a national election): Nativism, militarism, bigoted, misogynistic, homophobic and anti-Semitic racists embraced by the GOP until their hate becomes too obvious or is revealed in uncovered emails. (Walsh)

By the way, one wonders if the Republican Party is going to have to give Ronald Reagan, brain-dead monster that he was, a rethink:

Support Obama Exec Action on Immigration; Push for Full Amnesty

Racists will hate it.

Republicans and Tea Baggers will cry apocalypse.

President Obama should follow "executive actions he’s taking to fix our broken immigration system," with a full grant of amnesty.

"Given our nation's long history of racial discrimination, it is perhaps not surprising that there is a great backlash against inclusion and equality as the face of our nation changes and the immigrant population grows dramatically," notes the Advancement Project.

Never give racists, now with a home in the Republican Party, an inch.

Obama should follow his executive actions on immigration with a series of other moves that enfranchise undocumented citizens.

Republicans can always leave America, and begin a whites-only homeland somewhere. One hopes very far away.

Obama Vows Action as GOP Makes Plans for Plutocrats

Blanket Amnesty for Immigrants Now

Faced with dealing with Republicans who have obstructed the economic recovery from the Bush-Cheney great recession, President Obama made plain yesterday that "what I’m not going to do is just wait" for Republicans to work for the country instead of the Republican Party's economic royalists.

The signal could not have been clearer.

Obama "swiftly defied(GOP) objections by vowing to bypass Congress and use his executive authority to change the nation’s immigration system." (Hirschfeld Davis, Baker; NYT)

Welcome news indeed.

The president can begin by issuing comprehensive amnesty for millions of undocumented immigrants, for starters. Student loan forgiveness. Accelerated DoJ action for civil rights for women and minorities. Much can be done.

Executive authority is broad under the "unitary executive," just ask Republicans.

If racists in the Republican Party object, perhaps they can set up a whites-only homeland somewhere, as here in 2014 segregation remains a GOP policy objective.

Republicans in Congress may choose to begin impeachment proceedings. Excellent.

They may decide to shut down the government or refuse to fund the government. Countermeasures exist, and public opinion and rational actors will rapidly remove another GOP attempt to smash the foundations of the American economy, though Ted Cruz would be all for it.

Impeachment would put on display in a manner political campaigns cannot, the destructive and anti-American objectives of the Republican Party and the whacko theories on their plutocrats.

The results are predictable, ala 1998, the last time the Republicans began impeachment proceedings because the rightwing didn't like President Clinton getting so chummy with ethnic minorities.

The Lesson for GOP: Open Season on Immigrants

Update II: Buses carrying migrant families were rerouted to a U.S.-Mexican border station after being blocked by protesters waving American flags in a suburban Southern California city Tuesday.

Protesters, some yelling, "They're not born here!" and "Go back to Mexico!" stood in the street, blocking the buses as they were headed to the suburban border patrol station in Murrieta.

Update: For a glimpse into the racial politics of the Republican Party, see The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker: A journey through the poisonous, racially divided world that produced a Republican star; by Alec MacGillis.

The defeat of House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor is being characterized as everything from the "Fall of an Apparatchik" (Krugman) to a signal that House Republicans will become even more unproductive and destructive than usual,(Cillizza) engendering a virtual cessation of House legislative activity.

What is omitted is the defeat of the massively outspent Cantor will result in a surge of anti-immigrant rhetoric from the White Party with the predictable consequence of open and deadly attacks on perceived immigrants who don't belong in 'our' country.

Republican forbearance on going too far in bashing darkly complected humans is gone.

Amy Goodman reports the U.S. has revived the federal Domestic Terror Unit shelved after 9/11 in the wake of the killing of two Nevada police officers by white supremacists.

Federal action is called for, because we are going to need it as the forces of white hate are loosed upon a population already targeted by the rightwing.

Someone perceived as a Latino will soon be murdered; you can count on it.

Blanket Amnesty for Immigrants Now

Update II: See also "Hopes Frustrated, Many Latinos Reject the Ballot Box Altogether" (Calmes. NYT). None of this will come as a surprise to residents of Wisconsin's 8th Assembly District, the heavily Latino, most densely populated district with the lowest voter turn-out in Wisconsin. Folks there know they are not getting a lot of love from the Obama administration, and thus turn to greater community to support extended families and communities, as they shun electoral politics.

Update: See The Severe Hispanic Midterm Falloff Problem, because it's the right thing to do and the smart thing to do: Amnesty for Immigrants Now.

Now would be a good time to for blanket Amnesty (forget about a "path") for undocumented immigrants by president Obama.

This will not make Obama popular with white supremacists, and various other constituencies of white America; begging the question: What do you care about these idiots?

They will be rushing to the polls anyway come November, and I think they won't be voting Democratic.

At the National Review, Republicans shoot down immigration reform

President Barack Obama delivers remarks on immigration
at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas, Nev., Jan. 29, 2013.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Update: On Morning Joe, Joe and the GOP's Dan Senor express dismay at the tone-deaf John McCain and the National Review, agreeing these idiots are bringing back the "47 percent rhetoric" that worked so well for the White Party in 2012.

Not even pretending not to be racist.

Rich Lowry and and the editors at the National Review are advocating defeat of President Obama's Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

I repeat here: The bigots in the Tea and Grand Ole Parties will kill this immigration initiative, blaming President Obama and play to the white parties' racist base.

Write the National Review editors:

And, if we are to take Hispanics at their word, conservative attitudes toward illegal immigration are a minor reason for their voting preferences. While many are in business for themselves, they express hostile attitudes toward free enterprise in polls. They are disproportionately low-income and disproportionately likely to receive some form of government support. More than half of Hispanic births are out of wedlock. Take away the Spanish surname and Latino voters look a great deal like many other Democratic constituencies. Low-income households headed by single mothers and dependent upon some form of welfare are not looking for an excuse to join forces with Paul Ryan and Pat Toomey. Given the growing size of the Hispanic vote, it would help Republicans significantly to lose it by smaller margins than they have recently. But the idea that an amnesty is going to put Latinos squarely in the GOP tent is a fantasy.