You Reap What You Sow

Last week, an unhinged white nationalist mailed 14 pipe bombs.  Another unhinged white nationalist killed two people in Kentucky.  Days later, another white nationalist killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue.

Also last week, Donald Trump admitted that he was also a nationalist, and his repeated incitement of violence and disdain to the media and various progressive figures has only fueled other white nationalists into action.

Donald Trump’s administration has long been accused of failing to condemn religious bigotry. Jewish groups scolded the president last year for not mentioning Jews or antisemitism in a statement about the Holocaust.

Following August violence at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where

white supremacists waved insignia from Nazi Germany and yelled “Jews will not replace us”, Trump was slammed for suggesting a moral equivalency between members of the far right and counter-demonstrators. “You had people that were very fine people on both sides,” he said.

The surge of bigotry and violence that is blooming across America is a bitter product of the hate and intolerance promoted by Trump during his first two years in office.  I'm quite sure there will be no recognition by the Orangeman of his role in these recent tragedies.