Trump's Brutes

Donald Trump's racist and sexist remarks are unique in one sense. They come directly from a major Presidential candidate, not secretly from a corrupt staffer like Lee Atwater. The effect has been to make clear that around 20% of American voters are permanently baboons.

Trump's latest remarks deserve a close look. He made it obvious that the thought that women--in this case, Hillary Clinton--use toilets is "disgusting." He's a non-man with a strong aversion to women. I don't doubt that he finds them germy--he's reputedly a germaphobe. Never mind that he is a red-faced stack of wobbly flab who can't get an American woman to marry him although he's a billionaire.

And he told us that Hillary "got schlonged" by Barack Obama, using Yiddish slang for sexual intercourse. His followers loved it. It conjured perfectly the concept of large black men have sex with small white women, the concept that lit a thousand fires in racist lynch mobs. Trump said it out loud on television, thrilling the lugs who support him.

Trump won't be elected President (unless we are suicidal), but he has made it obvious that we have and always have had a mindless brute class that hates Latinos, women, Muslims, education, African Americans and so on. They love Trump, and at the moment they have control of the super-rich Republican party. There's a kind of alliance between the super-rich and the brute class--it's an old strategy in democracies. But it's rare that the brutes take command.