Chauncey DeVega of Salon Magazine is obsessed with race, especially whiteness, Donald Trump, and Christianity. He ascribes every ill of the world to these three things. He especially loves to combine the three things. In his latest hack piece for the Lefty snooty site, DeVega “regrets” to inform his readers that DJT is a White terrorist. “Regrets” my Aunt Fanny. The idea makes his Liberal heart pitter pat a little faster. It is the stuff of his fondist wishes.

This article from Chauncey DeVega is titled “”We regret to inform you” that Donald Trump is cashing in on white America’s death wish”. Oof. “We regret to inform you” comes from a Trump money plea email. We’ll get back to that. Here is the opening salvo:

Donald Trump is a white terrorist. This is true in both the literal sense and on a more metaphorical level. As part of Trump’s coup plot he incited his followers to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. It’s also true that throughout his presidency and beyond, Trump and his agents have used the propaganda tactic known as “stochastic terrorism” — in which a leader encourages violence while maintaining vaguely plausible deniability.

It is still my belief that January 6 was a Fedsurrection. Who is Ray Epps? But, whatevs. Let’s talk about “stochastic terrorism”. It is defined as “the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted.” Trump has done nothing at all in this fashion. He told the J6 crowd to go “peacefully” and “make their voices heard”.

However, now Vice President Kamala Harris not only solicited donations for BLM protestors but said:

Colbert observed that reporting on protests happening in major cities across the country appeared to be dwindling, to which Harris responded: “That’s right. But they’re not gonna stop. They’re not gonna stop, and this is a movement, I’m telling you.

“They’re not gonna stop, and everyone beware, because they’re not gonna stop,” she continued. “They’re not gonna stop before Election Day in November, and they’re not gonna stop after Election Day.

Before the BLM riots, Auntie Maxine Walters was agitating about the Trump Administration’s policy of separating children from adults until it was determined the children belonged with the adults. She called for confrontation with any personnel from the Trump Administration and said:

“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere. We’ve got to get the children connected to their parents,” she said, according to CNN.

There are some of us old enough to remember Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Turtle Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and others being harassed by the Left. And, Joe Biden encouraged the protests outside of the homes of Conservative Supreme Court Justices. But, for an Academy Award winning performance, nothing comes close to Joe Biden’s Soul of the Nation speech.

No, Biden didn’t call for violence against the Trump/MAGA crowd. But he called us “living in the dark” and told supporters that “it’s in our hands — yours and mine — to stop the assault on American democracy.” That, my lovelies, is stochastic terrorism (See above.)

About the title of this piece, “We regret to inform you”, DeVega is correct in that this term has been used in military death notifications. But, mercy sakes alive, during campaign season we get dozens of email notifications a day from candidates. This is not nearly as egregious as some of the money pleas, we all receive in campaign season.

We have covered race and Donald Trump, now let’s address the author’s fixation with Christianity. Our Kim wrote an article about Chauncey’s obsession with Christianity. You can read it here. In this latest assault, Chauncey writes:

White right-wing evangelicals and Christian nationalists are the most loyal members of the Republican base and Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters. Their religious mythology emphasizes “end times” and other eschatological fantasies and magical thinking, focused on visions of widespread destruction, death and calamity. Some believers actually hope to see mass death and suffering as a sign of the coming “Rapture” and their eternal salvation.

Although we all should live as if this is our last day, my Chuch does not “emphasize end time”. “Eschatological fantasies and magical thinking” are not really part of the Southern Baptist Dogma. Our focus is on our relationship with God. Not mass death. We leave that to Planned Parenthood. Finally, DeVega writes:

Because so many Trumpists and “conservatives,” especially in rural America, are surrounded by suffering, they are hypersensitive to threat and anxiety about their own mortality. Moreover, many people who live in damaged red-state communities incorrectly generalize that the entire country is suffering in the same ways they are. Such fears and anxieties about death and mortality are reinforced and amplified throughout the right-wing echo chamber.

What in dry cornbread Hell is DeVega writing about now? Suffering in rural America? Our economy may be swirling in the bowl, but we have our families, our faith and the Vols are playing the Wildcats tomorrow. Life is good. Well, the losing team may suffer a little.

I truly feel sorry for the miserable, depressed and lonely Salon writers. Not just DeVega. They lead such sad, little lives. They could use some of Trump’s magic powers.

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