'These are all lies': Analyst unpacks Trump's dark obsession with Harris' intelligence
A political analyst Wednesday revealed why he believes former President Donald Trump can't stop obsessing with Vice President Kamala Harris' intelligence.
Salon writer Chauncey DeVega dug through decades of rhetorical history to reveal a disturbing pattern that ends with Trump's attacks on the Black woman challenging his right to return to the White House in 2025.
"Trump told his followers that Kamala Harris is 'lazy,' has a 'low IQ' and appears to be on drugs or abusing some other substance(s).These are all lies," DeVega wrote.
"Trump is continuing to dig way down into his nasty bucket of racism and hate, grab the mess in his hands, and then smear it all over himself."
DeVega argued Trump has been relying on an centuries-old racist stereotype originated by the white people who enslaved Black people in the Antebellum South.
"To suggest that a Black person is lazy is a very old white racist stereotype that has its origins in white on Black chattel slavery and the American apartheid system that deemed Black people as incapable of full citizenship, 'natural' slaves, childlike and members of a subordinate and inferior group that was unfit for freedom," DeVega wrote.
ALSO READ: Not all former Trump 'spiritual advisors' appear in public to support his 2024 campaign
"As historians and other experts have repeatedly demonstrated, the white racist lie that Black people constitute a naturally lazy 'race' is evidence of the absurdity of the race system and white supremacy given that Black human property were literally worked to death by their white owners."
DeVega — after detailing racist comments from Trump and his allies that include calling Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage," falsely and repeatedly claiming Haitian immigrants eat pets and immigrants have "bad genes" — delivers a backhanded compliment to the Republican presidential nominee.
"Trump is one of the most accomplished and prominent racists and white supremacists in modern American history," DeVega wrote.
"Trump is truly the country’s first White president – and it appears increasingly likely that he will be back in the White House in January 2025."