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Trump’s Rush to Execute Americans Epitomizes Republicans’ Genocidal Assault on Life
Donald Trump and his administration are on an execution spree, rushing to expedite as many state-sponsored murders of federal prisoners as they can before his term ends on January 20. Between last December 10 and the end of his term, Trump has scheduled five executions, bringing his total since last July to 13. Since Trump and Attorney General William Barr effectively re-instituted federal executions, which had basically been suspended for the past 17 years, Trump has acted fast and furiously with this license to kill. In the words of Joanna Walters, writing in The Guardian, he has solidified his legacy as “as the most prolific execution president in over 130 years.”
This maniacal homicidal impatience, this murderous death drive, really defines Trump’s leadership and agenda for the past four years, and that of the Republican Party as well.
In fact, as I’ve suggested multiple times (here, here, and here), beyond homicidal, Trump’s agenda is more properly defined as genocidal.
In October 2019, perhaps most egregiously for example, he removed from Northern Syria the U.S. peace-keeping forces which were protecting Kurdish refugees, clearing the way for Turkey’s President Tayyipn Erdogan to unleash a genocidal massacre of the Kurds. Trump’s aiding and…
