Anyone who follows politics half as closely as I do will confirm the fact that one of the prime reasons John McCain lost the 2008 election was his choice for a running mate. Although I believe that choosing a woman might have been an excellent ploy to win votes, his decision to select Sarah Palin was political suicide.

I have no idea who ‘vetted’ the half-term governor of Alaska, but I hope that person was fired and banned from the Republican Party. Like Trump, she never read anything, has zero knowledge about how government works, and is a fake Christian with a hatred for anyone who professes to being a liberal. Another egomaniac.

Trump has exacerbated Palin’s efforts to “dumb down” America. Revealing that you have a poor education, a complete lack of dignity, and are “white trash with money” may be good for a sitcom or a satirical movie, but the men and women who seek leadership of a nation of 330 million people must be exceptional. Neither Palin nor Trump are worthy of this adjective.

I must once again refer to the 180-degree difference between Trump and President Obama. For eight years our nation enjoyed a highly intelligent, patriotic man who served all Americans and is a great orator whose speeches inspired and encouraged us and not shamed us: Trump is none of these.

To this day, although Meghan McCain opposes Trump, she refuses to compare him to Palin or that her father made a huge mistake. She is misdirecting the truth by blaming President Obama for the Trump phenomenon: “The culture war that I believe is real, and is raging in this country, I believe was ushered in with his administration,” she said, “and then exacerbated in the Trump administration.”

Let me put that comment in the world of reality and truth. When Barrack Obama became our president on January 20, 2009, Moscow Mitch McConnell made a statement which if read between the lines promised America that the ‘Republican Party would do nothing while a black man was in office;’ he has kept that promise for 11 years. The “culture war” she is referring to has a name: “white supremacy.”

Racist, hate groups in America refused to accept the fact that a black man was living in the White House. In 2015 Trump revealed that he is a racist, a bigot, anti-Semitic, an Islamophobe, and a sexist. Just the candidate the white supremacist movement had been looking for since the late 1960’s.

Trump was immediately endorsed by neo-Nazi groups such as the KKK. David Duke proclaimed him their new leader. After the tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 13, 2017, when a 15-year-old woman was murdered by a member of those who were marching in support of white nationalism, Trump confirmed his true political ambitions. He said: “there were good people on both sides,” confirming that he is indeed the first fascist in the White House.

Here we are. The least qualified, and most anti-American in history is in the White House. His failure to address the approaching pandemic and take it seriously has cost the lives of 100,000+ Americans. He is serving his base, his cult: men and women who share his views, his “Amerika.”

Op-ed by James Turnage

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