This from former FBI director James Comey: www.nytimes.com/...
The full Title:
“Mr. President, Please take a stand against racism, the nation’s ability to contain it is faltering”
He compares the racism in America to a nuclear reactor, and he calls our culture the control rods that contain it.
Some highlights:
“America has long had a radioactive racist soup in the center of our national life. Donald Trump thinks he is stirring it for political benefit. He’s actually doing something more dangerous.”
“Yet something good happened over the last 50 years. America started to get control over the dangerous radiation. We erected a containment building made up of laws”
Comey fears the progress of the last 50 years is being undone with this passage:
”Today, the control rods are being lifted. With each racist assault — on a judge, an athlete, a country, a member of Congress, or a city — and with each kind word for “very fine people on both sides,” our president allows the stew to boil and radiate more dangerously.”
This is a stunning op ed from a former FBI director, directly calling out the President of the United States for fomenting racial violence.
Yes, this is the same James Comey who was cowed by Rudy and some rogue agents to smear Hilary Clinton in the closing hours of the 2016 campaign. What a strange place in history he will hold, as I’m sure he understands what a terrible choice he made.
I firmly believe we must all get behind an impeachment inquiry for this President.