By Dr. Álvaro
Huerta
Ten: In a recent New
York Times/Siena College poll, former VP Joe Biden holds a wide lead in key
battleground states against President Donald J. Trump or the “Hustler-in-Chief.”
Actually, polls can’t be totally trusted since the mostly white Trump
supporters lied to the pollsters in 2016! Hence, let’s skip this one.
Nine: As
of June 28, 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), the
total number of coronavirus or COVID-19 infections has reached 2,504,175.
The total number of deaths has reached 125,484. Looks like Trump was wrong when
he said in late February, 2020, that “…One
day it's like a miracle, it will disappear…"
Eight: Speaking of the horrendous number of deaths, where
Trump has grossly mismanaged and
downplayed (to the present) the pandemic, Dr. Ashish Jha,
the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, recently predicted
that the
U.S. will reach 200,000 deaths in September, 2020.
Seven: At a recent Trump rally in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, where
one million people apparently requested to attend, according to the moronic
Trump campaign, Trump uttered more dangerous and idiotic remarks about his
handling of the pandemic: "Slow the Testing Down Please!"
Six: Speaking of the Tulsa rally (more like
neo-Nazi rally?), where about
6,200 people attended with mostly empty seats, Trump rambled and spewed his
racist rhetoric, once again, when linking COVID-19 to a racial slur: “kung flu.”
Five: As a consistent racist via his rhetoric and
policies, Trump continues to harm himself, politically, with racialized groups,
such as Latinas/os, African Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, etc. By
keeping a low profile, Biden is allowing Trump to dig himself deeper in his
racist hole.
Four: While Americans don’t protest in mass against
Trump’s immoral policy to put brown immigrant children in cages, this racist and
inhumane policy, alone, should be enough to impeach or defeat him in 2020. I
wonder if Americans would protest if they were white Canadian children?
Three: If the vast majority of white women finally reject
Trump, unlike 2016, he only has one loyal group to rely on: white men. Since
Biden is also a white man, Trump can’t play the race or gender card against
him.
Two: Like in the case of the sell-out Latinas/os
and African Americans in the case of Trump’s racism, I’m still shocked that too
many women voted for Trump in 2016, despite Trump boasting about grabbing women
“…by
the p______.”
One: Trump recently re-tweeted a racist Tweet,
thanking the “…great
people of The Village…,” where a white Trump supporter uttered what best
illustrates Trump’s presidency and re-election campaign: “White
Power!”
[Dr. Álvaro Huerta is an Associate Professor
in Urban & Regional Planning and Ethnic & Women’s Studies at California
State Polytechnic University. Among other scholarly publications, he’s the
author of Reframing the Latino
Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm and Defending Latina/o
Immigrant Communities: The Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond. He holds a Ph.D. in city and regional
planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in urban
planning and a B.A. in history from the University of California, Los Angeles.]
*Illustration credit: ©2020 Lalo Alcaraz / Cartoon
appears courtesy of Lalo Alcaraz & Andrews McMeel Syndication (laloalcaraz.com / Pocho.com).
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