Well, the Trumpists have patched together a new straw man to burn publicly before his drooling adherents. Someone told him about racial sensitivity training and he immediately recognized it as “divisive, anti-American propaganda.” As always, Trump criticizes others for the very faults of which he is most guilty.
He’s has started this witch-hunt — oops, he’s the only victim of witch hunts. He has started this endeavor through Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and a graduate of Wheaton College where the Bible is worshipped. Clearly Trump and his Gang are trying to find something that will really spook his uneducated and racist supporters. “Anti-American” Please define. Can’t, because it cannot be defined, and that’s intended. “Anti-American” just sounds inconceivably bad to a certain class of people, as bad as “boys and girls matriculating together at the state university!”
The same is true, I think, of the term “socialist.” Republicans cannot call their opponents “communists” as in years gone by, so they have settled on “socialist.” I don’t think these people would know a real socialist if one walked up and offered them free health care. “Socialist” is dog-whistle for “doesn’t believe in private property” (“Oh my hard-inherited wealth!”) or “believes taxes should be increased so that the government can do what governments are supposed to do” (“Class warfare!”), or “elitists who know what needs to be done telling me what to do!” (“Now that’s really anti-American!)”