What Do Trump’s Supporters Really Want?

What do the rank n’ file, the leadership and figureheads of Trump’s treasonous movement want? From Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, Confederate Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and the QAnon quack-pots – these one-ring circus characters “represent” hundreds, thousands, millions – actually roughly 65 to 75 million Americans – who support “he who must not be named” and all the undeniably odious, despicable and anti-people beliefs the man-child embodies.

They are him, he is them.

My question: “What do they want?” Because clearly they don’t want what Dr. King wanted – a colorblind society where folks are judged by the content of their character as opposed to the color of their skin. If we’re not going to have noble and high-minded 21st century Obama-era racial inclusion and diversity… then what do they want instead? I think it’s a fair question and a good place to start.

Do they want to return to 1965-style Separate and Unequal everything? Maybe 1955 segregation? Or 1920 Jim Crow? Or do they want to return my people, Black folks, to 1860 slavery? “Shackled,” Chained, life-long, generational bondage – hear me now, this well-documented dream of millions of his supporters certainty can’t be dismissed nor ruled out with this lynch-mob crowd.

Time Magazine found that nearly 20% of Trump supporters did not approve of freeing the slaves, according to a January 2016 YouGov/Economist poll that asked respondents if they supported or disapproved of “the executive order that freed all slaves in the states that were in rebellion against the federal government” – Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

Do they desire separate cities and/or states? “Secession” seems to be a term doing a lot of heavy lifting today. Texas Republicans, led by supreme Negro sell-out Allen West have proposed just that. Perhaps that is the uncomfortable, inconvenient truth – White supremacy will be achieved through White separation? I ask you: Are there any characteristics like humanity/civility/empathy and understanding which can simply be ordered, legislated or mandated? Let’s be honest – there are no man-made institutions or even peer-pressure which can force a person to “like,” or “respect,” let alone “love” other people if they simply don’t want to. The 45th President’s followers obviously have no inherent inclination, no desire and unquestionably no history of willingly mixing and mingling, of sharing power and wealth. Instead, it’s been “generational White flight,” disinvestment, and isolation as the answer to social justice and progress.

“This land is my land, this land is your land….” Sure.

Do they want us to “go back to where we came from?” Is their answer to ship us all “back to Africa?” And of course, there are those… mere “millions” who want to warm up Adolf’s ovens. Is that the ice cold Vulcan truth: the majority of this new but yet very old 3rd or 4th “Reich” – they want to turn on the gas chambers? Please, please… please don’t tell me that’s not a possibility; surely, they are above such barbarism.

Howbeit, the question remains “what do Trump’s, excuse me, “he who must not be named” people want?”

They don’t want to be a part of the Paris Climate Agreement; they don’t want to be a part of NATO or even the United Nations. They don’t want a livable minimum wage, clean air and water. They don’t want to build more pre-schools, just for-profit prisons. They oppose affordable health care because even if it benefits them, it benefits us – Americans of color, and they’d rather harm themselves then see us, one and all, benefit.

What will it take for them to put down their machine guns and flamethrowers? Can we come to the negotiation table?

One more time, “What do they want?” What will make them happy? What will avert the bloody civil war they seem to be threatening, if not promising? I’d like a vivid, laid-out, spelled-out and well-explained verbal picture of the “United States of America” these people would like to call home. Granted I think it will repulse me, but I think it will illustrate exactly what we all know.

Do they want to return to segregated swimming pools? Segregated restaurants, malls, cemeteries, hospitals and schools? Will it again be illegal to look a White man in the eye, as it was in parts of this nation for centuries? Yes centuries! Sure, of course this sounds trifling, “small” and pathetic. Nonetheless, this was America from 1620 until… 1975 or so. Gee, one could make the argument last year, last week, yesterday.

If we, the “Left” – we, the clear majority, the Progressively high-minded and Liberal Utopian sunflower folks who adhere to the impractical concept of “forced integration” and hollow, shallow “orchestrated” unity – who believe in racial inclusion, cultural diversity and economic equality, if we don’t consider giving the angry millions and millions who support “he who must not be named” what they want, the America they want – then where does this “conflict,” this major difference-of-opinion go?

How long before these divided states resemble the infamous Northern Ireland conflict, “The Troubles” – about 30 years of “irregular war,” “low-level war” – endless bombings and assassinations?

How long? Not long.

What do Trump’s supporters want?