Per the ever-despicable Donald Trump, immigrant gangs are “animals, not people.”
“NOT PEOPLE.”
(Pretty appalling, Donald.)
And yet, as prone to demagoguery as Trump is, I thought he’d never surpass his Mexican “rapists” claptrap… or, for that matter, this dusty old chestnut (Trumpian, but not actually Trump’s):
“They are not just gangs of kids anymore. They are often… ‘super-predators.’ No conscience, no empathy.”
“NOT… KIDS.”
— One group of gang members, per The Orange Stain on the White House, are “not people.”
— And another group of gang members, per a different demagogue (of a kinder, gentler period, the heyday of The New Jim Crow) were “not… kids,” but apparently something more like… Terminators.
“NO CONSCIENCE, NO EMPATHY.” (Talk of structural racism and inequality can wait. First we have to “bring them to heel.” Good doggies!)
“NOT PEOPLE.”
“BRING THEM TO HEEL.”
“NOT… KIDS.”
“NO CONSCIENCE, NO EMPATHY.”
(Tell me about it! “We came, we saw…” we raped an old man to death with a bayonet after shooting and beating him, then displayed his mangled corpse in a shopping mall — ha ha ha ha ha.)
“NO CONSCIENCE, NO EMPATHY.”
…and not a shred of self-awareness from the limousine “left.”
Which basically translates to: NO HOPE.