[csusbpeace] Trump Attacks On Asian-Americans Not Only 'Repugnant,' But 'Politically Stupid'
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Trump Attacks On Asian-Americans Not Only 'Repugnant,' But 'Politically
Stupid': Columnist
The Republicans are dim, too, if they don't rein in Trump, whose "animus is
almost pathological," warns Bloomberg's Robert A. George.
Jan 28, 2023
Donald Trump <https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump>’s repeated
bashing of his former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao
<https://www.huffpost.com/topic/elaine-chao> in appalling anti-Asian attacks
is not only “repugnant” but politically moronic, a Bloomberg columnist warned
Saturday.
Trump’s racism is stupidly alienating a powerful voting bloc with “rising
influence,” wrote Robert A. George.
If the Republican Party
<https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/republican-party> doesn’t have the guts
to confront Trump over his “ideological or moral” failings, “how about doing
it for crass political purposes?” he asked.
George was pointedly referring to Trump’s relentless, blatantly racist
attacks on Truth Social <https://www.huffpost.com/topic/truth-social> against
Chao, apparently largely as a way to get back at his political nemesis Sen.
Mitch McConnell <https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/mitch-mcconnell> (R-Ky.)
— and because Chao quit Trump’s administration after the violence of the Jan.
6, 2021 insurrection.
Trump’s attacks echo his juvenile renaming of COVID-19 as the “Kung Flu” —
but are even worse, argued George.
Calling a Taiwanese-American woman “Coco Chow” ... “crosses a line rarely
seen in politics (at least if you don’t count Trump),” writes George. Racist
“name-mocking” as Chao notes, is “painfully common for many Asian Americans,”
he notes.
Chao, who had remained silent about the attacks for month
<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elaine-chao-trump-attacks_n_63d1aab6e4b0c8e3fc7bd51f>,
finally told Politico in a statement earlier this week: “When I was young,
some people deliberately misspelled or mispronounced my name. Asian Americans
have worked hard to change that experience for the next generation,” she
added. Trump “doesn’t seem to understand that, which says a whole lot more
about him
<https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/25/elaine-chao-donald-trump-racist-attacks-00079478>
than it will ever say about Asian Americans.”
The blowback will be on Trump — and the Republicans
<https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/republican-party>, George warned.
Trump’s behavior and the lack of Republican criticism is so “politically
stupid,” he observed, because many Asian Americans appear open to Republican
policies. But Trump’s “animus is almost pathological,” and he likely won’t
rein himself in, nor be checked by his party, George noted.
He warned that if Trump “continues making racist comments about an Asian
American woman who served more than capably in four Republican
administrations (including his own) — while other Republicans say not a word
in repudiation — well, the Democrats’ 2024 political ads practically write
themselves. Especially if Trump is the nominee.”
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