Does this Guest* Think Trump DRIVES America's Animosity?

That he alone is the cause of the inequality unrest and generalized dissatisfaction at the way institutions are parceling out justice in some quarters today?  Do people want a comprehensive, and limited, immigration policy in this country, and accompanying fairer labor standards that are equally enforrced on all workers - or is that a pipe dream Donald Trump sold us?  Do we want localized school policies, everything from health and safety shutdown to curriculum choice based on meeting national standards -- because that's what Donald told us to want for our children?  Did we all turn against the neocons and the establishment politicians in Washington because Don said so, or because we understand you cannot staff a new ship with new discipline policies, direction and values enforced until and unless you are willing to clean said ship and start with a loyal crew...

I am not sure who this Guest Essay is written by, the name isn't noted in the template here.*  However whoever she or he is, if the headline writer got it accurate, the essayist is simply wrong.  Donald Trump isn't a Savior you can hope to cut down to stop a ... movement.  DJT responded to the national mood of the country -- a sliver more than half; whether you were counting numerically (citizenship matters for voting) or geographically, where the anti-Washington impulse is more spread out...

I like that Biden's administration has flooded the country with the taxpayer dollars that are usually stalled around DC and the wealthy suburbs that surround her, that we as a country learned from the fiasco of the Bush and Obama economic years the folly of pronouncing an economic recession "over" when the good news (and money!) has not yet made its way fully inland.... That cost Hillary the election too:  the DC Dems didn't realize in 2016 how many inland Americans were still smarting from the "too big to fail" bailout culture that never reached the workers.  This time, the Dems are trying harder, but they waited until post-election last year to lift a well-manicured finger, and even with the federal funds flowing now -- and promising to reach those most affected by CoVid where society has its greatest needs -- people don't forget.

In conclusion, I guess what I'm trying to tell readers of the below piece?  Likely slosh job.  Until we end the unConstitutional racial preference policies that are strangling the nation's growth -- and stop looking and labeling people by their multi-colored (in many cases) skin tones and ethnic backgrounds (often unknown) -- we will continue to clog up the economic and justice systems with grievances, lawsuits and other on-the-street actions, I fear, to ensure that justice in America is served daily, to all who hunger for it.

 

Guest Essay

Trump’s Cult of Animosity Shows No Sign of Letting Up

As long as the former president dominates the G.O.P., “this animosity coalition will define the party.”

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* ADDED:  It's not a guest essay, it's by NYT regular Tom Edsall.  

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.

Not sure why he doesn't get a byline (aged white male?) while other lesser writers with identity markers do, who publish much much less in the NYT (trangender columnist Jennifer;  Indian-American work-from-home disabled family man Fahad Manjoo, etc. They don't grind it out weekly, nttawwt.)

It must be a pay/priority system they've negotiated, but just give us the byline already -- not who's a guest and whe's Fam.  We know who we read regularly, no need to hide your regular writers under the "guest" label to increase the diversity head count of staff v "guest" writers.