One of the well known ironies regarding Hitler’s Germany was that the leadership didn’t quite live up to the expectations they had of others, did it? Famously, Heinrich Himmler would never had met the physical qualifications he wanted for the SS. Goering, although a legitimate war hero, had become a drug-addicted obese blowhard that, by the end of the war, some considered the most hated man in Germany (given the competition, quite the achievement). And Hitler...dark-haired and by the end physically weak and pitiful.
And so it seems that Trump’s Administration wants to chart the same course.
Give us your middle class, your well-off, preferably your white masses… because, as the newest addition to the ever-expanding list of assholes bloviating from the executive branch, Ken Cuccinelli, wants everyone to believe, America shouldn’t accept anyone without private health insurance and preferably a solid 401k before they arrive.
Oh really?
Friedrich Trump. Sent to apprentice as a barber at age 14 because the family needed the money, being saddled with debts as a result of the illness that killed his father (oh, the irony meter pegs yet again, right?) Returned home at 16, only to find out there weren’t enough people in his town to run a barber’s business. And, with the draft coming up, ran to the US. No money. No investments. Skilled only in what would be considered a lower class field. Mooched off his relatives already in the country and, through legitimate hard work and some savvy business, became successful. Also fraud and theft, but hey, all the best families earned their money that way. But still, hardly what one would have called an ideal immigrant to Trump’s America.
Mary Anne MacLeod: a dirt-poor servant escaping the extreme poverty of her home. Not even an native English speaker, as English was her second language. Fascinating. Seems Trump’s grandfather and mother wouldn’t exactly fit the mold for acceptable immigrants. Aside from the whole “white” thing, of course.
And that brings us to Ken Cuccinelli. That’s a very Italian name, isn’t it? And his mother is Irish. How much would you like to bet that when the Reillys and the Cuccinellis got off the boat they were just poor immigrants with absolutely nothing, just another bunch of scuzzy Italians and drunken, loutish Irish running from their shithole places of origin to try and find a new life with nothing to their names aside from what they carried with them?
And everyone knows that the Italians and Irish aren’t really white people. Everyone in the 19th century knew that.
So, do you think that they’ve contemplated the fact for a microsecond that if not for a country which didn’t accepted their ancestors, the poor and huddled masses that they were, these fuckheads wouldn’t even exist?
Nah. I don’t either.