Who was that Masked Man?
So now I completely understand why he doesn't want to be photographed in a mask. It does make him look weak. The presidential seal is an ironic touch.There were a lot of stories yesterday about Trump's praise of Henry Ford's "bloodline," and how that signals his endorsement of eugenics. Ford's antisemitism was animated by conspiracism rather than racism (though of course he was racist too). In his telling, innocent Jews were just as much the victims of the wicked bankers who pulled the strings of the world and the evil Jewish songwriters like Irving Berlin who injected Negroid jazz, sex, and big city cynicism into the Protestant veins of wholesome rustic America as those wholesome rustic regular folk.Trump's obsession with his own good genes doesn't rise to the level of a theory--he doesn't give a damn about anyone else's genes but his own. His pandering to white nationalists is just pandering--he would sell them out in a second, if it served his purposes. Tragically, it doesn't.