Donald Trump has suggested that South and Central American refugees fleeing gang violence and starvation from climate change should be shot in the legs as they approach the US border to ask for asylum. His bizarre fantasy of erecting a moat filled with alligators to prevent brown people from coming to America is juxtaposed by a police chief on trial for brutality saying that Donald Trump is "the last hope for white people in America."

When Franklin Graham says that holding Trump accountable for trying to bribe a foreign official is going to cause a "Civil War," what he is really talking about is a race war. That's the subtext of all these right wingers on Trump TV and other venues who are talking about coups and civil wars. The billionaires and Republicans can't win elections based on their policies, so they are trying to stoke up racial hatred in America to get frantic white people to the polls.

This is a complete repudiation of everything this country claims to stand for.

Plus...In other news.

It's been a year this week since Washington Post columnist Jamall Khashoggi was brutally murdered by agents of the Saudi government. America needs to seriously reconsider the kinds of alliances we have established around the world over the years, and start aggressively working with struggling and emerging democracies like in central America, South America and Africa, and stop supporting murderous dictatorships, regardless of how much oil they have or how much money they give to Jared Kushner and other members of the Trump crime family.

-Thom