Sheep magazine Archive 3: issues 18-24

As the saying goes, you know a person by the company they keep. And
Trump is surrounding himself with racists many layers deep.
So it’s time for all of us – the media, pundits, Democratic legislators, and
the public – to stop waiting for the ‘pivot.’ It ain’t coming and if we don’t
realize that now, we are all at fault for the unraveling of democracy in the
United States.
Eugenics, first emerged during the 19th century and was used as a
pretext for the sterilisation of disabled people until the practice was
discredited after the Second World War.
Adolf Hitler’s justification for the Holocaust – in which 11 million people
were killed, 6 million of them Jewish – was based on a similar theory of
racial hierarchy. The PBS documentary featured clips of Mr Trump on the
campaign trial claiming that he ‘believes in the gene thing’ and saying he
had a ‘very high aptitude’. It also ran footage of previous interviews from
the real estate magnate’s time as a reality TV star in which he shared his
thoughts on the subject, including a 2010 interview with CNN.
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He said: ‘Well I think I was born with the drive for success because I have
a certain gene. I’m a gene believer ... Hey, when you connect two race
horses, you usually end up with a fast horse. I had a good gene pool
from the standpoint of that, so I was pretty much driven.’ Mr Trump has
become notorious for his bravado on the campaign trail and claimed he
could solve problems that have plagued policymakers for decades with
ease because he is a ‘smart guy’.
Story edited from articles by Jodi Jacobson and Sammy Nickalls
JANUARY 2017