Former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice’s New York Times article is both mad, because it is so divorced from foreign policy reality, and maddening, because many of its criticisms against President Trump would fit President Barack Obama far better.
Rice writes that the GOP has “largely abdicated its responsibilities” to ensure that Trump keeps America safe. The implication: Republicans are sort-of traitors. Yet, Rice’s ire is saved most particularly for Trump’s base, or what she describes as the “voters in every state who applaud Mr. Trump’s efforts to rid the country of brown and black people.” Rice offers no evidence that Trump voters want an ethnic cleansing of their fellow citizens. And Trump doesn’t seem to have a very good strategy for his evil plan: His economy is producing record opportunity for minorities.
