Maureen Dowd: The bloody-minded Trump luxuriates in the language of tyrants

Trump’s obsession with bloodlines was instilled by his father, the son of a German immigrant. He thinks there is good blood and bad blood, superior blood and inferior blood. File Photograph: Mark Peterson/The New York TimesIf he’s not elected, he bellowed in Ohio, there will be a bloodbath in the auto industry. At his Michigan rally Tuesday, he said there would be a bloodbath at the border, speaking from a podium with a banner reading, “Stop Biden’s border bloodbath”.

. The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey reported that since Trump put his daughter-in-law in charge of the Republican National Committee, prospective employees are asked if they think the election was stolen. Republicans once burbled on about patriotism and defending the United States. Now, denying democracy is a litmus test for employment in the Formerly Grand Old Party.

“The family subscribes to a racehorse theory of human development”, Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio told PBS. “They believe that there are superior people and that if you put together the genes of a superior woman and a superior man, you get a superior offspring.” As Stephen Greenblatt writes in “Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics”, usurpers don’t ascend to the throne without complicity. Republican enablers do all they can to cosy up to their would-be dictator, even introducing a bill to rename Dulles airport for Trump. Democrats responded by introducing a bill to name a prison in Florida for Trump.

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