The New York Times, NO. 7
An
authoritarian vilifies marginalized groups. Trump has.
Authoritarians
tend to demean minority groups, trying to turn them into a perceived threat
that provides a justification for a leader to amass power. Mr. Trump has
repeatedly suggested that marginalized groups are responsible for the nation’s
problems.
Immigrants
have topped his list. Mr. Trump has blamed them for destroying communities
and his administration has tried to dehumanize them by posting mocking videos
of shackled immigrants. In response, many Latinos have stopped speaking Spanish
in public and started carrying their passports to prove citizenship.
He has
vilified transgender Americans and barred them from military service.
He has fired women and people of color
from leadership posts and ended programs that promote workplace diversity. His
administration has attempted to erase aspects of Black history, including
by removing books on slavery and
segregation from military libraries and pressuring Smithsonian museums to
minimize those subjects. At the same time, he has suggested that white people and
Christians are victims, which echoes the autocratic habit of claiming that
majority groups are in fact oppressed.
The Bottom
Line
Mr. Trump is borrowing from the autocrats' playbook by suggesting that some
citizens are legitimate and others are second-class.
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